Edutopia. iTunes U. iTunes U: Get your self-development here! « How To Enjoy Your Job. This is a momentous event in the world of self-development! iTunes has launched iTunesU - a portal for education, featuring online lectures in audio and video format. You can download these for FREE making learning accessible and easy whenever you can spare some time. I am a huge fan of self-development and devote an entire chapter on it in my book “How to Enjoy Your Job” . I recommend using your commute to develop your brain, and your spare time to expand your opportunities by learning new things. Here is a brilliant (and free) way to do it! Here are some of the available lectures for FREE at iTunesU that sounded pretty cool to me. You may think these are wierd and not for you – but check out the selection on line as there is something for everyone. To find these and so many more – go to iTunes store, and choose the iTunesU link.
Happy learning! Like this: Like Loading... Announces Automatic Upload Capability for iTunes U. “iTunes U” for Libraries? A recent posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education “Wired Campus” section describes the new iTunes U portal, “a spot on the site that will collect college lectures, commencement speeches, tours, sports highlights, and promotional material, all available at no cost.” (If you have iTunes on your desktop/laptop, you can use this link to visit iTunes U in the iTunes Store.)
Now, according to the Apple press release, “content from iTunes can be loaded onto an iPod® with just one click and experienced on-the-go, anytime, making learning from a lecture just as simple as enjoying music.” How about iTunes U as a content delivery platform for libraries. What kind of content could we put into iTunes U? Here at OhioLINK, we have the Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Recorded Sounds and Foreign Language Video Instruction that are open to the public. (Granted, we might have to do some file format conversions to meet requirements for iTunes U.)
Schools take learning off campus with iTunes U. - Higher Ed. In cyberspace, you can learn to cook lemon chicken and become a belly-dancing star in less than 10 minutes. But you never expected your professor to be an online sensation. Now, anyone with internet access can learn about pendulums by watching Professor Walter H.G. Lewin swing on a rope in a classroom at M.I.T. or sit in bed to contemplate the philosophy of mortality with Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale.
In collaboration with Apple, many universities have been opening up their courses to the online public to make content ranging from special lectures to classes free to download through a new feature on their iTunes store - iTunes U. Since the launch of iTunes U on May 30, 2007, over 100 universities like M.I.T., the University of California, Davis, Boston University, Stanford and Yale have contracted with Apple to put various types of university content online. Each institution uses iTunes U differently, tailoring it to its needs and goals. Knowledge 'deserves to be free' Free Movies on iTunes U. Recently, I feel really bored tweaking my Mac. So, I tried to tune on my Apple Store and went to iTunes U. Even though some of the movies are free, but most of them are interesting enough and will certainly worth your time watching them. Accessing iTunes U To get access to iTunes U, first you will need to install iTunes and then..
Inside your iTunes, choose iTunes StoreFrom the sidebar with header iTunes Store, select iTunes UBrowse through and choose a movie from free movies collection. You can either download the movie by clicking on GET MOVIE button or streamline play the movie by double clicking on the rowAnyway, you can easily find the movie’s location by simply clicking on the link provided. In the rest of this article, I will provide you the link to some interesting movies that can be downloaded for free on iTunes U Copying iTunes Store URL Some Interesting Movies Inside iTunes U Fish Artist: HyunJeen Lee and JunSik Na Office Mobius Artist: Seung Il Hwang and Seung-Hyung Lee Kabob Ryde.
The Earthly Paradise: iTunes U. Evolution of iTunesU and Its Role in the Duke Experience | EDUCAUSE CONNECT. The iTunes U agenda. Is iTunes U for You? - washingtonpost.com. In an empty classroom on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walter H.G Lewin, a physics professor, is practicing one of his lectures on the science of everyday phenomena. Lewin has been teaching at MIT since the 1960s, and his courses are legendary among generations of students there.
But he wants to get this lecture -- where he dives into the science of rainbows, musical instruments and pacemakers -- exactly right. The audience is not just his students at MIT. It could be anyone around the world with access to a computer and Apple's iTunes store. MIT is one of 28 colleges that have posted courses, campus speeches and other events on a section of iTunes known as iTunes U.
Unlike other offerings from Apple's music store, where songs cost 99 cents, everything on iTunes U is free. "The content can be downloaded to an iPod and listened to on the go," says Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes, "making learning from a lecture just as simple as enjoying music. "