Wireless Laptop Program

The intent of Framingham State College's laptop program is to provide technology-rich tools and resources into the classroom through which instructors can expand and deepen the learning experiences of their students.  The wireless technology expands the access for students and instructors to web-based and network-based resources through the use of laptops equipped with wireless LAN cards communicating with wireless access units, which are located across campus in the academic buildings, the Center for Academic Support and Advising, the Library, the College Center and the Residence Halls.  The project started in the fall of 1998 with four classes participating.  About 80 students were distributed laptops to use in their classes for the semester while the professors incorporated the use of the laptops and technology into their curriculums.  To date, over 270 individual class sections have been involved in the program, with approximately 4000 students having access to a wireless laptop.  In the fall of 2002, the College inaugurated a program that will lead to all undergraduate students having wireless laptops by the fall of 2005 by requiring all incoming new students to the College (freshmen and transfer) to have their own laptop.

> Past Project Classes
> Uses of the Technology
> Why Laptops?

> Fall 2005 Recommended Laptop Information

> For details on how to purchase, borrow or seek technical support for your laptop, visit the
  ITS web site.

> Laptop Information Session Presentation - 2005 Accepted Student Day (PDF file - will need
   Adobe Acrobat Reader)