Use of Handheld Devices and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) in Higher Education
The personal digital assistant (PDA) and handheld computers have been around since the mid-1990s, but only in the last few years have they made their way into higher education. Medical schools across the country have thoroughly embraced the gadgets as a requirement for medical students. One by one, undergraduate programs are jumping on the PDA bandwagon, starting slowly with pilot projects and PDA requirements for students in the computer science and engineering schools.