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iTunes U

Overview

OverviewiTunes U offers a remarkable new means for engaging the 21st century student. The service delivers your multimedia content - lectures, video demonstrations, audio examples, photo tours - using Apple's immensely popular iTunes software. Instructional Technology is excited about introducing iTunes U to campus and is looking forward to exploring with faculty how it might enhance the learning experience.

Key Advantages

  • Easy to use interface for uploading content and managing existing materials - including a Blackboard building block for increased integration
  • Creates a presence for Washington College lectures, speakers, events and more amongst key players in education and culture
  • Global repository for audio and video content created by the experts in a wide variety of topic areas
  • Easily connect to tutorials, examples, lectures and the like to enhance the learning experience - and allow others to do the same with WC content
  • Puts your content in the most popular digital media application, iTunes, and onto Apple's best-selling digital media devices like the iPod and iPhone

Get Started

If you are interested in learning more about iTunes U and how it can be incorporated into your learning experience, please contact Nancy Cross or Nick Smerker. Together we can discuss what content you have, what content you might like to create and develop a strategy for getting it on iTunes U as easily as possible.

Links

OverviewAccess more information about iTunes U here at Washington College via the Office of Information Technologies iTunes U microsite. Download helpful tutorials, icon packs & compression guides and find other great iTunes U content.

OverviewApple's iTunes U website provides special resources for faculty interested in getting involved with this tool. Visit to see how featured professors are "transcending the classroom."

OverviewAnother faculty-specific resource from an iTunes U member school, NJIT. This page features a agreat FAQ that provides realistic answers to many of your questions about the service.

Common Questions

Q: If I post my course materials online, what incentive will my students have for attending class?

A: iTunes U can become a home for entire course lectures and some institutions have chosen to publish some classes in their entirety on iTunes U. However, this does not have to be how you approach the service: you can post smaller course segments, enriching bonus materials, short lecture segments or specific examples. Because many users prefer to watch content that is in shorter in length, posting your entire lectures may be overkill. iTunes U is not intended to completely replace the classroom experience but to augment it, connect it to the global community and make the learning environment more compelling.

Also, because you have control over when content appears on iTunes U, entire lectures could be posted after class is over, allowing students to review lectures for study but not until after an attendance policy requirement has been met for the day.

Q: Can I upload video or audio examples from copyrighted or commercially licensed works to iTunes U?

A: In short, no.

iTunes U is a publicly searchable service and it is absolutely crucial that the content uploaded is allowed to be legally distributed.