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Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix
We’ve covered free stuff on the iTunes Store before, including educational material, but Apple has decided to make it official: today they introduced iTunes U, a new part of the iTunes Store (launch iTunes U in iTunes). iTunes U is an initiative to provide higher education institutions a mechanism for distributing digital content to students. Many of the original iTunes educational content providers are there: Stanford, UC Berkeley, and MIT (that last one is adapted from MIT OpenCourseWare, a _floss favorite).
Digging into the iTunes U collection, I found some winners:
- Phil 7: Existentialism in Literature and Film – from UC Berkeley (the intro lecture is currently the iTunes U top download)
- Modern Art History – from Otis College of Art and Design
- Elementary Greek – from Concordia Seminary
Time to get learnin’, people!
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OpenCourseWare is much more than MIT, they’re just a part of larger effort. The OpenCorseWare Consortium is a collection of schools WORLDWIDE that are making an effort to share information.
Check out a list of participating universities at http://www.ocwconsortium.org/use/index.html
posted by Jason! on 5-30-2007 at 12:32 pm
I had no idea OCW extended beyond MIT, but boy does it. Thanks for the pointer — that’s a heck of a list!
posted by Higgins on 5-30-2007 at 1:45 pm
Oh boy! I feel just like a kid turned loose in a candy store! Where to start? Thanks for the link!
posted by Pam on 5-30-2007 at 6:05 pm
Well, OpenCourseWare is great, but in the end its a bit useless for any non-student since you only get material that is pretty much useless without the other half of it. Though I think its a fantastic tool for students, I was slightly dissapointed in the ethereal state of the information in it.
Maybe I’m missing something in it…
posted by Ignacio on 5-30-2007 at 8:52 pm