Sunday, March 8, 2009

iTunes University

iTunes University is part of iTunes where instrustors and administrators can distribute educational media. The best part of this is that it is free. Professors can share their information with with their students and students from other colleges as well. Their are videosand podcasts. There are many different subjects that you can research. There are featured topics as well. There is business, fine arts, teaching, education, history, humanities, and literature are several categories that iTunes U has.

If you are interested in a particular University, you just search for the University and you are taken to their iTunes U page. From there you can search different subjects and view featured topics.Once you click on a topic you will be directed to the course homepage where you can view the audio or video. It is FREE!!! As a college student and a person in the U.S., free is a good thing in our economy! I think that having these free lectures is great. The video is a great way to learn how to use iTunes University.

This program is useful to students. If a student is doing research they could use iTunes U to access credible information. It can also be useful to the students that are in that particular professors class. They can go back and listen to the audio from the professors lectures. The videos can also be useful to those that need to watch the professor speaking.As a student this would be particularly helpful to me because I can listen to how other teachers explain things and learn from their lectures.

iTunes U is also useful to other professors. Other professors can use these lectures for their classes as well. I think that it is important for people in education to be able to shar ideas. As a teacher this could be very useful to me when I need to get information about certain subjects, whether its information in special education, or information on a topic I would like to cover in my own classroom. iTunes U is definitely a great program that I will use often in my college education.

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