iTunes U makes audio and video podcasts from universities worldwide freely available, and offers teachers the opportunity to expand curriculum and engage students and the wider community.  It promises students that they can treat content posted by their professors in the same way as music, movies, and podcasts.  “Learning has finally caught up with your lifestyle” the spin goes.

Watch a marketing video about it here.

Oxford and Cambridge are the latest universities to join ITunes U.

Within Australia, ANU, Griffith, Melbourne, Swinburne, UNSW and UWA all have an iTunes U presence.

There are numerous resources for the scholarship learning and teaching.  Griffith has 55 tracks on topics as diverse as postgraduate careers, IT trends, SMS in the classroom and workplace learning.  Swinburne and UNSW have video lectures from learning and teaching workshops and showcases.  Melbourne has six lectures from its 2007 PhD colloquia.  There is a lot worth listening to on a rainy day!

Filed under: Mobile learning, Technologies by Agnes Bosanquet