I saw a great announcement today concerning iTunesU. They are now offering K-12 content. This was just announced Tuesday July 1st at NECC. Here is an article with information:
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=54390;_hbguid=f266f42f-b885-4d14-a151-b1b4cf0a11b8
iTunesU has been offering some great content since it began a little over a year ago. Wikipedia says: iTunes U “features free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University, Arizona State University, and MIT.” Since the day it opened we have been asking our Apple reps when they were going to start offering K-12 content. The answer we always got was … soon.
What is exciting about this announcement is the opportunity for school districts to offer content on-line for on-demand access. What is even more powerful is that users are not restricted to just their school district. Any material that is released to the public will be accessible through the iTunes store. The initial Universities that started offering their content this way felt that the charge of their institution was to offer the best education to the world they could. They no longer have to be confined to the bricks and mortar buildings on their campuses to offer this content. Many professors embraced this opportunity and the amount of content you can find now from post-secondary schools as grown tremendously. I expect a similar explosion in K-12 content.
