I love technology but, it’s just not fair. I remember being 12 and having to spend so many hours researching content for my school projects while traveling many miles between bookstores and libraries to find what I needed. Now, imagine having complete access to every media library at every major university in the world! Ok, open your eyes, if you have iTunes or any Apple device you already have this awesome perk. iTunesU has been out for almost six years and it recently expanded its reach to over 70 countries.
Download and Create Content
So, you never had the money to go to Harvard? Not a problem, bring Harvard, Oxford, Stanford and all the rest directly into your desktop PC, iPad, iPhone and (why not?) Windows tablet. The service is free at the individual level and institutions can purchase and customize their own site.
iTunes U Course manager also gives teachers the ability to integrate their own documents as part of course curriculum, as well as content from the Internet, hundreds of thousands of books on the iBooks Store, over 750,000 materials from
existing iTunes U collections, or any of the more than one million iOS apps available on the revolutionary App Store℠.
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The Future of eLearning
I truly think this has incredible potential for corporations that would like to save tons of money in the future. For example; training departments could offer their materials and media through iTunesU and eliminate costly implementations and maintenance fees associated with a full fledged Learning Management System (LMS). Surveys and exams could be delivered through existing SharePoint sites in a company or external services such as SurveyMonkey. Needless to say iTunesU and the future of web based learning technologies is truly exciting.
