著者

Monk Bruce Ozawa Ken Thomas Michael

出版者

名古屋商科大学

雑誌

NUCB journal of language culture and communication (ISSN:13443984)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.1, pp.85-102, 2006

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Between 2002 and 2005 Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (NUCB) became one of the first institutions in Japan to develop the infrastructure of the wireless university to promote the use of mobile learning. In addition to a wireless campus, all students were given iBook computers and faculty encouraged to develop online courses via the Blackboard Learning System and an Internet-based Enrolment Management System. Following Osaka Jogakuin College and Duke University, April 2005 saw the distribution of Apple's entry-level digital audio player, the iPod shuffle, to all freshmen. Faculty in the Department of English Communication were encouraged to develop courses that required use of the shuffle to support autonomous language learning in the Self-Access Centre (SAC). The use of the shuffle was particularly evident in English reading and listening courses, where undergraduate students were required to use it for assignments on learning materials that would appear in their final examinations. This article is based on a survey of students' experiences in the iPod project. It examines whether the project has been effective in promoting increased exposure to English listening resources within a mobile learning context.