As you know (especially if you frequent this particular blog) a number of universities are currently engaged in projects to test the viability of the iPhone as a tool for teaching and learning, and as you may suspect, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is among that group.

In collaboration with other departments, MIT’s IS&T formed an iPhone Evaluation Team to test various aspects of the iPhone within MIT’s infrastructure. The evaluation included email, calendar, contacts, certificates, web browsing, and other features classified as essential to MIT mobile-device users. The project also investigated ways to make the iPhone work with these features and document the findings.

The Team’s report asserts (not surprisingly) that the “iPhone contains a number of breakthrough technologies that will interest many users at MIT. It includes a number of revolutionary features that might benefit MIT mobile device users. These include the ‘full’ web browsing capability, robust email client, mult-touch user interface, etc.”

In addition to an extensive “iPhone Evaluation Project Notebook,” MIT’s Team has constructed several Mobile Web UI Mockups. These resources are certainly worth checking out if you’re interested.