Location-based Attendance (in College)
The Japanese university Aoyama Gakuin University, which is located just outside Tokyo in Sagamihara city, will give incoming students iPhones - for education and attendance taking purposes.
How will attendance be taken? Via an iPhone app where the student keys in an ID and the class number. GPS will be used to insure they don’t log in from home, along with a check of the router used to connect. The app is now in the testing phase with a formal launch in June, for 550 first and second year students and some staff.
This seems strange to me because they actually take attendance in college now via paper slips or sign in sheets. I don’t recall any college class I took or taught where attendance was taken.
- Reuters
by Adena Schutzberg on 05/28 at 08:59 AM |
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