Updated 06/10/07
Open Content meets iTunes: see it for yourself.

Browse the catalog in iTunes – there is a new category iTunes U available. A very sleek experience. Now let’s dive into the content.

I am mostly interested into educational sciences, educational technology and psychology by the nature of my teaching and research fields. So I hopped into iTunes U and had a good look. A bad thing is that you have to choose a university first and only then you can sort by categories, but maybe I miss something. iTunes U already supports audio and video. Being a visual guy I often missed the slides for all of the presentations, so maybe it would be nice to upload them at iTunes U as a kind of lesson booklet. (Update: some of the universities offer Audio, Video AND PDF files with the slides and additional material. Thanks to Helge for this tip!)

I found a few interesting courses:

• Psych 101: Research and Data Analysis in Psychology by Fredric Theunissen / U Berkeley
• Psych 160: Social Psychology by Serena Chen & Dacher Keltner / U Berkeley
• Duke has videos: Information Science + Information Studies gives us insight into podcasting and blogging in Education.
• Definitely have a look at the MIT offerings which open their deep Open Courseware catalogue to iTunes U, they also link to the course web sites in MIT OCW, so there is a lot of rich background material available: here is an example.

So, this was just a short dive into iTunes U, but it is definitely worth checking out. If You are already providing iTunes U content – what are Your experiences? Please share! I am interested in this to learn, if we can use this as a cost saving infrastructure for sharing contents with our students.

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