One-to-One+Laptops

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__Universities and Colleges that require pre-service teachers to have one-to-one laptops:__
[|University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Education] (start date not specified) //[Mac or Windows]// http://www.uaf.edu/educ/faq/index.html [//Financing Laptop// - //Part of Financial Aid// ] //"In order to better prepare pre-service teachers for the professional communities they will enter, the School of Education supports and encourages teaching and learning with laptop computers."//

[|Ball State University Teachers College](started fall 2002) //[Mac]// http://www.bsu.edu/teachers/article/0,,37437--,00.html [//Financing Laptop// - //Part of Financial Aid]// //"////Teaching in American K-12 schools is becoming a high-tech career and teacher education at Ball State University is a national model for the integration of computing and information technologies into the process of learning to teach."//

[|University of Texas at Austin College of Education -- Laptop Initiative for Future Educators (LIFE)] (started fall 2002) //[Mac]// http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/life/financing.php [//Financing Laptop// - //Part of Financial Aid]// //"The Laptop Initiative for Future Educators (LIFE) is a comprehensive effort to immerse future teachers in technology-rich environments so that they become competent in using technology learning tools in their instruction."//

[|University of Southern Florida College of Education] (one pilot cohort started fall 2003) //[Mac]// http://usfweb2.usf.edu/finaid/07-08/0708_budget.htm [//Financing Laptop - Part of Financial Aid//] //"Portable computers make "anytime, anywhere" learning possible in a way that standard approaches to education cannot."//

[|University of Maine at Orono College of Education and Human Development] (started fall 2006) //[Mac]// http://www.umaine.edu/edhd/laptops/faqs.htm [//Financing Laptop - University of Maine Credit Union]// CEHD //"is committed to preparing aspiring teachers to appropriately and creatively use technology in the classroom. To ensure our graduates are ready for this dynamic responsibility, we are requiring that students enrolled in the College and majoring in Education programs leading to teacher certification have a laptop computer and specific software."//

__Liberal Arts Universities and Colleges that require students to have one-to-one laptops:__
[|University of Minnesota at Duluth College of Liberal Arts] (start date not specified) //[Mac or Windows]// http://www.d.umn.edu/fareg/personal_computer.htm [//Financing Laptop - Part of Financial Aid//] //"The laptop requirement supports our effort to ensure that CLA students gain valuable technology skills and experience as an integrated part of their education in the humanities and social sciences: making students more competitive in their future academic and professional careers."//

[|University of Denver] (started fall 1999) //[Mac or Windows]// http://www.du.edu/uts/laptops/purchasing.html [//Financing laptop - Part of Financial Aid or Vendors (Apple or Dell) provide financing]// //"Since requiring all first-year undergraduate students to arrive at the University of Denver with laptop computers in fall, 1999, the number of courses incorporating laptops is growing rapidly. Consequently, DU students are using their laptops as portable libraries, laboratories, and communication ports, enhancing their education and extending their educational reach well beyond the classroom walls."//

[| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] (started fall 2000) //[Windows]// http://cci.unc.edu/incoming_students/payment.shtml [//Financing Laptop - Part of Financial Aid or Carolina Computer Initiative (CCI) loan through the College Foundation]// Carolina //"is the first and only public university to support the laptop requirement with a mammoth information technology program that eases the financial burden on students and supplies cutting-edge hardware and software to faculty and staff."//

//[|DePauw University] (started fall 2005)// [//Mac or Windows//] http://www.depauw.edu/laptop/OrderingandFinancing.asp [//Financing Laptop - Vendors (Apple or Dell) provide financing.]// The purpose of the one-to-one laptop project is to //"establish DePauw as the preeminent liberal arts college in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning and to prepare students for professional success after graduation. Students, faculty members, and employers have pointed to a laptop program as the next key initiative in transforming liberal arts education to equip students to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the digital age."//

//[|Massachusetts College of Liberal Art](started fall 2005)// [Windows] http://www.mcla.edu/laptop/LaptopFAQ.php// [//Financing Laptop - Part of Financial Aid]// //"Connect Learn Excel. MassAdvantage"//