itunes 2009
Sunday, July 26th, 2009
In 2007, Apple released a new version of the iTunes Music Store, which includes a link to iTunes U and 16 colleges whose podcasts can be accessed directly from the application iTunes.
In 2008, iTunes U was open to "education" organizations which are not universities, like the "Beyond Campus" area of the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, USA Holocaust Memorial Museum and others.
In 2008, the number of schools associated Apple Inc. to use iTunes U expanded to a considerable amount as shown below.
- NJIT on iTunes U & Information Homepage
- Bowdoin College
- Penn State on iTunes U
- Stanford on iTunes U
- Duke Digital Initiative – Open the Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- Harvard Extension School
- University of California at Berkeley
- Sacramento State
- State University Arizona
- Texas A & M
- Ross School of Business at the U of Michigan
- Santa Monica College
- University of California Berkeley
- Queens University (Canada)
- Wellesley College
- Georgia College and State University
- Rollins College
- Radford College
- Gordon College
- Lafayette College
- Virginia Tech
- Guilford Tech Community College
- Concordia Seminary
- Otis College of Art & Design
- College of William & Mary
- Villanova University
- Florida Tech
- Ohlone College
- Texas Tech
- Wilkes University
- Seattle Pacific University
- Abilene Christian University
- Reformed Theological Seminary
- Southwestern College
- University of Michigan
- Vanderbilt University
- New Mexico State University
- Agnes Scott College
- Institute of Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas
- East Tennessee State University
- The University of California – Davis
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
James Welsh has created a wiki of the schools participating in itunesu.pbwiki.com /
In 2009 there is a broader list of academic institutions available at iTunes U. ITunes U is open to academic institutions as well, which gave room for many more sites iTunes U.
You can see the link below which will provide the main iTunes U site and give full details on the content in the iTunes U world, iTunes.
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At the time (April 2009) there are 177 academic institutions available on iTunes U sites.
The list of these sites can be found at;
In addition, there are 12 different projects in K-12 online at iTunes U.
And we can find 56 museums, foundations, scientific institutions.
There has been a explosion in the iTunes U sites in the last 6 months time.
In total there are 245 sites in a window or scientific purposes in writing this article (April 2009).
Currently there are 33 different categories of sites available iTunes U, which covers a wide range of interests.
It is fair to say iTunes U has taken root and become a signifcant information and knowledge database for various purposes. What remains to be seen is whether these sites are being used and that have the effect it was intended.
Not published very little information on the usage statistics of these sites and the number of people that are actually used material available to them.
Another aspect to these sites are their ease of finding information, such as search engine in iTunes U is not optimal search for the material you need to find information about.
The concept of iTunes U is nice, and has potential. If it can be combined effectively with the ingredients of important applications for the iPhone, iPodTouch or to your liking, then we will see a greater potential than today. Being able to do several experiments or training interactive, with the electronic distribution of material is to create a new scenario, which have the potential to reach a wider audience.
There at the moment more than 30,000 applications already developed for the iPhone and iPodTouch. The technology does not stop moving and this is just another way to open technology delivery methods content, information and knowledge. The podcasts are by far the common ways of providing a sound, but is not graphic or interactive.
Several universities offer free training on various topics and the list seems to be the explosion.
You just have to download a training module to your iTunes, which most of us at home, right?
All you need is for some enterprising organization to develop learning some advanced applications for the iPhone and have the final new digital learning and is distributed in the pocket.
Students can download tools we have developed, from the server iTunes Company, to receive training, information updates or any other package they deem useful for their learning. After all, the handheld devices are increasingly used in production, field domain.
About the Author:
He has a background as civil engineer and geoscientist. He has worked mainly within the oil and gas industry from the mid 1980s. He has written a few fictional novels as well as being the author of some professional litterature within oil and gas sector, he is now an editor of some web sites.
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