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?
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Les
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