iTunes U is a free, hosted service for colleges and universities that provides easy access to your educational content, including lectures and interviews 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It’s the most powerful way to manage a broad range of audio or video content and make it available quickly and easily to students, faculty, and staff. And it is the only application that supports the overwhelmingly popular iPod.
Main Features:
- iTunes U provide easy access to educational content, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- It is easy to learn, use, and administer as well as supports secure web-based standards for authentication and authorization.
- iTunes U is a fully integrated part of Apple's end-to-end solution for creating, managing, distributing, and accessing educational content.
- It's the only content management and distribution system that sets educational content free by delivering the best solution for the distribution of content that can be accessed by an iPod.
- iTunes U complements learning management systems, including Blackboard, WebCT, and Sakai. Students can access iTunes U content from within these systems with one click.
Several leading Universities have seen potential in iTunes U service and have joined the programme such as University of Stanford, University of Michigan, Oregon State University, Duke University, University of California etc.
You can download iTunes by visiting at:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/confirm/index.html
