iTunes U

iTunes U is a university through Apple. If you have a iTunes with your ipod or iphone, it is easy to explore all that iTunes U has to offer the student. If you do not, you can go to http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html and search information about iTunes U. This program can be a great help to the student who is not understanding the information learned in the classroom, or just wants to explore more on the subjects they are learning. It can be used as a study tool as well.

iTunes U provides video downloads that you can watch on your ipod or iphone. They range from a variety of subjects including women's history, creative performance and chemistry to name a few. At iTunes store, you can browse through Universities such as Duke, Central Washington U, and New York Law School. Once a school is selected, you can browse more easily the subjects areas, which have audio and video downloads.

I can see this being a big help for teachers who want their students to do some extra learning. It is easy for students to turn on their ipod and listen to the tracks anytime, doing most anything. However, some tracks are videos which would take a little more time to sit down and watch them.

Just to get an idea of what iTunes U is like, I went to Stanford U through iTunes U and went to the Education subject area and downloaded some audio and video. I had some problems trying to download them, there was an error that kept popping up. Other than that, the downloads are free and mostly easy to get.