A recent Wired article discusses Abilene Christian University's mobile initiative, a pilot program in which 1,000 freshman students had the choice between a free iPhone or an iPod Touch. According to the article, the pilot is succeeding on a number of fronts. Forty-eight percent of the ~4300 student population are now equipped with a free iPhone. Fully 97 percent of the faculty population has iPhones, too.

 Read Wired's article, and check out the mobile learning case study panel presented by Abilene Christian University at the 2009 AcademiX Conference held at Duke University. Visit Abilene Christian University's iTunes U site.