University challenge from Education Guardian

Tuesday’s Guardian had a Bridgepoint Education supported supplement University Challenge, with a series of articles on universities and current and future technologies. Front page article, Dawn of the cyberstudent, begins with the information that:

“In a single week, the Open University (OU) records about two million downloads from its presence on iTunes U, a source of higher education podcasts and videos freely available on the web. About 87% of these downloads are from outside the UK. “I’m betting most of them have been downloaded by US students studying at American universities,” says Peter Scott, director of the OU’s Knowledge Media Institute. He predicts that students will soon be mixing their higher education experiences from resources all over the world, choosing to study at Harvard, say, while listening to lectures from Oxford, taking part in discussion groups at the University of Mumbai, and sitting exams somewhere entirely different.”