[Noisebridge-discuss] Apple-U? I saw something new on iTunes

[Shannon Clark]

Most of the content on iTunesU is from free podcast feeds from Universities
(and other organizations such as TED) so most of the content (with perhaps
only a few exceptions) is already available - Apple has just aggregated it -
and made it easier to find & search (with the support of the various
institutions).

MIT has their OpenCourseware which includes most classes (I think possibly
all) at MIT. And dozens of other organizations have made their content
widely and freely available.

There is the Conversations Network from my friend Doug Kaye (
http://conversationsnetwork.org) which has 1000's of talks & podcasts -
including the even larger http://spokenword.org which seeks to collect
spoken word recordings from across the globe.

So yes, there are many free and non-profit alternatives already out there.

Shannon

[full disclosure, my conference MeshForum's sessions are part of the
ConversationsNetwork though I haven't held one in a few years]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Apple has released a huge amount of courses, podcasts, and lecture
> material for free called "ITunes U"  There's a phenomenal amount of
> content on there.  It's started me thinking that an open alternative
> to the iTunes system for educational materials would be a real amazing
> thing.  Some PBS stations have lecture courses and such, but as far as
> I know access to these materials isn't free and on demand.
>
> Does something like this exist, and I just haven't seen it yet?
>
> -Martin
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