MBA students receive free Apple Vision Pro

All students will receive an Apple Vision Pro headset as part of the program. Link: https://poetsandquants.com/2024/02/06/the-first-mba-program-is-launched-for-apple-vision-pro/

 

Um... OK - but it's a teaching "gimmick." That device is a real advance, and may, I feel, become a very widely used mode of instruction. It's no more objectionable to me than the school-issued laptops that, for years, have been part of many college and university programs. Or E-C Council U's Ethical Hacking program. Years ago, the lectures could be downloaded and viewed on a IPod.

I'm surprised to hear this comment, especially from someone who has had a long career with instructional technology. Very surprised indeed.

 

They definitely will charge this $3500 in their tuition with some 'reasonable items.'

 

A person as astute as our @JoshD, was sufficiently impressed by the laptop that came with his Master's in Quantitative Finance, at Duke University / Fuqua Scool of Business, to post a picture of it here at DI, shortly after he enrolled. Obviously, he didn't view that as a "gimmick" - because it wasn't.

My Take: The Apple Vision Pro will start showing up in numbers, in the same sort of context. We'll see.

 

Maybe some Spanish Business School will offer them cheaper - on a Groupon.

 

Obviously, Apple thinks their product will. Not a bad track record, so - like I said, we'll see.
Sometime, maybe I'll call Tomorrow University in Germany, to see how their program is doing.

"Hello, Tomorrow University?
Uh, OK. I'll call back Thursday...."

 

My Masters program came with an iPad and iPencil. Anderson University (SC) is an "Apple Distinguished School" - they have a "Mobile Learning Initiative" that includes a lot of infrastructure that supports mobile device learning platforms. Apple created their "distinguished Schools" program for K-12 and College Level institutions. https://www.apple.com/education/k12/apple-distinguished-schools/

 

I still use that laptop every single day still for continued coding exercises and for my online courses I teach. Best laptop I’ve ever had.

 

Thanks @Acolyte and @JoshD - good to know. I'm hoping the Apple Vision device will be as useful to students as the equipment you received from your Universities has proven to be, to you.

 

I would definitely say the price for this is being included in the tuition, because we all know plenty of online MBA degrees, the cost less than $16k.

As a side note, I'm a little shocked to see a typo on the Poets and Quants website. Makes me feel better about when it happens to me!

 

I'm sure it is. Maybe a little less than $3,500. I'm thinking the University might have received an "educational discount" or a promo rate from Apple, to facilitate getting a number of units out right away to a desirable target market. Still - yes, expensive. Hopefully, worth it. We'll see.

Typo on Poets and Quants? I missed it, because I could only read so far without signing up. Maybe I should do that. If you ever made a typo - I don't remember having seen it, and I read most of what you write. If you do - don't worry. We know you're literate. It's obvious.

The people that get me are the 'fumble-fingers' who are perfectly able to spell, etc., but make a bunch of errors and never proofread their work. They're too busy doing high-level intellectual tasks, to condescend to correcting their sacred, inviolable work. I get a vibe like, "Here is my outstanding, professional, peer-reviewed thinking on the matter. I now command that you peasants first, decipher it, second, commit it to memory and finally, venerate it. "

 

Yep. You could. Good one, too. Matter-of-fact, I know a guy who's working on one of those.
Daaaaaaaaaang. I could get a top-line Fender Stratocaster for that, too. It'd be my ninth guitar. Nah, I have enough.

You've been around here a long time, Maniac. You know everybody wants different things. You wanted a good degree at the lowest possible price - and there was HAU, a very good school, RA, with what you wanted. These other people want to spend $17,000 on a distance MBA at a relatively new university in Germany, all properly accredited etc. that prides itself on being leading-edge. And they'll get fancy Apple VR helmets. If that's what they want, and they can afford $17,000 I'm OK with it. You?

Hmmm. $17,000 - I could get a really nice watch for that.. Audemars-Piguet? Cartier? Breguet? I might have to sell my Fender Telecaster....

Nope, that's out. Keeping the Tele. Waited 55 years for it. Maybe snazzy Italian ready-to-wear suits? They're cheaper - around $11-1200 apiece. Nice ones --- San Felice, Capodimonte, San Marzano, Caravaggio... maybe get half-a-dozen....

See what I mean? Different folks want different stuff. It's all good.