iTunes U

I’ve got an ipod and iphone, I work, cook, clean and walk listening to music and podcasts every day, I’ve recorded, edited and published podcasts, but I still hate to use itunes and struggle to do the most basic tasks with it. 

I wasn’t aware of iTunes U until I read about the University of Warwick’s new presence on it yesterday. There’s a good introductory video to iTunes U on the Apple website, it seems to be a section of iTunes dedicated to distributing (without hosting?) recorded lecture series (and any other audio material) from universities. These can be for either protected internal or public external use. 

Looking through yesterday it looked as though there was a lot of great content in a pretty hit and miss fashion. It’s going to take time to evaluate properly, at the moment I’ve got a pile of audio stacked up in a queue to download, but I’ll look at it more in-depth soon. I couldn’t find any critical analysis of it online other than this Washington Post article – Is iTunes U for you?