in second half of apple's education-focused media event today, company turned attention itunes u, company's free educational podcast section in itunes store. eddy cue took stage announce on 1,000 universities using itunes u, program's content having seen on 700 million downloads date.
new itunes u app advances itunes u audio , video lectures full-fledged learning app, allowing non-traditional students access huge amounts of free content more importantly apple, allowing schools adopt itunes u learning platform.
courses created via itunes u course manager, web-based tool allows teachers build course includes syllabus, handouts, quizzes, , other items. course materials hosted apple , available taking course -- default, courses open , available anyone, though appears schools can restrict courses students.
users, itunes u ios has more 100 courses optimized ios, more on way. quick perusal of app shows classes yale, duke, mit, , stanford -- including paul hegarty's well-regarded ipad , iphone app development course [direct link].
itunes u free download ipad , iphone on app store [direct link].
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