Hi Les
I'd agree with the other responses to your query - if you manage your
podcasts for yourself there should be no problems in complementing this with
use of iTunes U.
Note that Barry Cornelius, Oxford University ran a workshop session last
week on "Time for iTunes U" at UKOLN's IWMW W2009 event - his slides are
available at
http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2009/sessions/cornelius/
Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leslie Carr [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 August 2009 16:02
> Subject: Web 2.0 vs iTunes U ?
>
> Does anyone have any experience with iTunes U? Our University
> is thinking of starting a presence on Apple's iTunes U (the
> section of the iTunes store that distributes podcasts and
> video podcasts from higher education institutions).
>
> It looks very professional (see for example the OU's presence
> at http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/itunesu/
> ) and there are over 300 institutions who are represented there.
> HOWEVER, I can't shake the feeling that this is a very bad
> idea, even for lovers of Apple products. My main misgiving is
> that the content isn't accessible apart from through the
> iTunes browser, and hence it is not Googleable and hence it
> is pretty-much invisible. Why would anyone want to do that?
> Isn't it a much better idea to put material on YouTube and
> use the whole web/web2 infrastructure?
>
> --
> Les
>
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