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Back to School: An Apple for the teacher

by Steven Sande (Aug 27th, 2008)

TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Going back to school isn't all about the students; the educators are often just as excited or stressed out as the kids about the beginning of a new ...

PBS videos for educators hit iTunes U

by Michael Rose (Apr 14th, 2008)

The ongoing expansion of edu-world content in iTunes continues with Friday's addition of PBS to iTunes U (direct link); teaching support videos and instructional content from KQED, WETA, WNET thirteen, WGBH and more. Video clips that illustrate science, geography or history (including segments from ...

Roar! New York Public Library joins iTunes U

by Scott McNulty (Apr 8th, 2008)

iTunes U, Apple's program to host multimedia files and podcasts for various institutes of learning in the iTunes Store, has a brand new member -- a big one. The New York Public Library has just launched its iTunes U page. Included are lots of audio programs broken up into several sections, as well ...

iTunes U comes to the iTunes Store

by Scott McNulty (May 30th, 2007)

Along with iTunes Plus and DRMless tracks Apple also announced that iTunes U will now be available via the iTunes Store for everyone. iTunes U started a year and a half ago as a pilot program at Stanford which put some lectures online with iTunes. Apple and Stanford then created a custom iTunes ...

iTunes U goes International, eh

by Erica Sadun (Nov 28th, 2006)

Queens University of Kingston, Ontario is the first non-United-Statesian university to begin offering downloadable content via the iTunes music store. Yesterday, Queens joined Stanford, Duke, and Berkeley as part of iTunes U, Apple's free hosted service for colleges and universities. The Queens ...

FairPlay: coming to a classroom near you?

by Jay Savage (Sep 23rd, 2006)

We haven't talked about iTunes U here in a while, but it's been on my mind lately, as I'm heading up my U's roll-out. It's a long, tortuous process--because of our internal bureaucracy, not Apple's--but, despite the fact I haven't been talking to our official reps (the extent of those conversations ...

UC Berkeley on iTunes

by Scott McNulty (Apr 24th, 2006)

Apple unleashed iTunes U to an unsuspecting world a few months ago with some success. You can now add UC Berkeley to the list of institutions that are using iTunes to deliver course podcasts to their students (and anyone else that visits itunes.berkeley.edu). Thanks, Ben. ...

Apple Introduces iTunes U.

by Damien Barrett (Jan 24th, 2006)

Last Fall, Stanford University began a partnership with Apple to publish and host lectures for download via the iTunes Store. Called Stanford on iTunes, it's been a resounding success and now Apple is looking to replicate that success with other schools around the country and world. iTunes U. (for ...