iTunes U(niversity)
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.
Am 8. June 2007 um 14:25 Uhr
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Im Chef-Blog hab ich grade gelesen, dass iTunes U nun mit Angeboten aus den gesamten USA online gegangen ist. Da ich als erstes natürlich sehen wollte wie das Ganze denn aussieht, habe ich es miir eben selbst angesehen und vier Bildschirmfotos vom An…
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