In an effort to ditch its old-fashioned methods of monitoring student health, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has turned to wearable technology for help. While the school does have a history of making students meet strict fitness goals, this new step is taking the school to a whole new level, never practiced by any university in history. Oral Roberts is requiring its students to wear Fitbits as part of their school curriculum, as reported by the Washington Post.
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All 900 freshmen at the school are now required to wear the fitness monitors, after the school had spent a few years studying Fitbit and determining whether to proceed with implementation.