Apple today launched the iPhone Developer University Program which allows instructors and professors to create a development team with up to 200 students free of charge. All students will be given access to the same tools granted to paid iPhone developers, including the iPhone SDK, but also provides iPhones and iPod touches for evaluation purposes.
"The iPhone Developer University Program is a free program designed for higher education institutions looking to introduce curriculum for developing iPhone or iPod touch applications. The University Program provides a wealth of development resources, sophisticated tools for testing and debugging, and the ability to share applications within the same development team. Institutions can also submit applications for distribution in the App Store."
Apple will also allow students within the same development team to share their applications with each other through email, or by posting them to a private website for presentation and grading purposes.
Stanford has already taken the necessary steps to take advantage of this new program and are currently offering a course titled "iPhone Application Programming". There are more than 80 students registered. Today, they announced that a suite of five software applications developed by students was now being tested on the campus.
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