Week 10: Something Extra: ITunes- U?

Okay so I know that we've come to the end of blogging, but today I received an E-mail from Itunes. I had a little gander and thought that it was influtential to the new media topic so I thought i'd tell you guys about it. Cara perhaps our ideas about an I-Education and an I lap for a technophile in the future are beginning to be created! :)



The E-mail was telling me about Apples latest idea for itunes: 'The Itunes- U'. The ITunes U enables you to 'learn anything, any place anytime'. It's hard to believe but Apple have decided to feature free lectures, language sessions, audio books and seminars from various Universities all around the world along with various professional journals and websites!



The Itunes U application lets you access more than 60,000 audio/video files from universities, All of these lectures and audio books etc can be sync'd with your iPod, iPhone or iPod touch anytime of the day anywhere! Even though this may sound technical according to Apple you can "search, download and play educational content as easily as you do music, movies and TV shows". This notion once again relates to 'convenience culture'.

I think this just goes to show how the idea of E-learning and distance learning is developing at a phenomenal pace. It's quite hard to believe that some of the ideas that we all wrote about in last weeks post about what life will be like in 2020 might actually be coming true in 2009! See Cara, you and I thought our ideas were a little 'out there' but perhaps they're not as out there as we thought.

I've added the link on to the bottom so that you guys can have a gander. Sorry if it wasn't very interesting to you guys, I just thought it was pretty cool :) What do you guys think?

http://www.apple.com/uk/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html