iTunes U

I believe the use of iTunesU could greatly enhance students learning and should be incorporated into our classrooms more often. iTunesU is a massive database of free educational videos and audios that can be accessed by anyone anywhere. iTunesU is quickly growing to be one of the largest online educational sources with more than 200,000 lectures, presentations, videos, readings, and podcasts from all over the world. iTunesU is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get education directly into the students hands. With iTunesU all information that is being displayed are from top universities, museums, and other well known cultural institutions. Top universities including Cambridge University, Oxford University, Yale University,and Harvard University just to name a few actually post class lectures as podcasts or videocasts. This is extremely beneficial for students who want to go back and re-listen to their lecture, write notes over again, or become more clear about a topic, but to me this is so important because a high school student anywhere in the United States can listen to a lecture from some of the best educators in the world. iTunesU allows higher education to be available for everyone.Students can actually download the vodcasts or podcasts of teacher lectures, or other educational videos directly to their computers, ipods, or iphones. This to me is one of the most important benefits. iTunesU has made it possible for students to be anywhere at anytime to learn. Students no longer have to be sitting at a computer desk or in the library to do homework, study, or have class. With iTunesU in our classrooms I believe it could transform the way we view education, and learning could venture outside of the classroom.