Open University joins iTunes U
iTunes U is a service, from the Apple iTunes Store, that provides access to a collection of educational course materials from hundreds of leading Universities across the world and is available to anyone with a Mac or PC (and of course iTunes). Users can download and play course content just like they do for music, videos and TV shows. Some of the courses are on-going and you can subscribe to automatically receive each new episode whenever it becomes available.
http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html
iTunesU
To date, this service has been used by many Universities in the US including Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, amongst many others, to provide course materials and lectures to students.
The UK’s Open University has recently added more than 300 items of video and audio course material to the iTunes U service.
Open University on iTunes
Professor Brenda Gourley, the Open University Vice-Chancellor said:
The iTunes U project is an exciting new opportunity for anyone, anywhere in the world to gain easy access to Open University courses. Our aim is to partner our established distance learning expertise with the power of the internet to provide as mobile, flexible and personalised learning as possible, whatever your current educational level, personal circumstances or technological abilities. We are delighted to be joining with leading institutions around the world to pool curriculum and content to suit your needs, and hopefully to offer you useful accreditation and recognition at every stage of your studies.
Other Universities to join iTunes U recently include University College London and Trinity College Dublin.
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