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iTunes U:Corporate channel offree educational resources

SPIDER: Sharing Practice with iTunes U DigitalEduational ResourcesTerese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE FellowUniversity of Leicester/Open University

ALT-C 8 September, 2011

What’ll we talk about?

• What is iTunes U?

• Is iTunes U an OER channel?

• Impact – not just downloads

• How to join in

Photo courtesy of quiroso on Flickr

iTunes U for University

iTunes U USPs

Power Search

Not just universities

Is iTunes U OER?

Way back in 2005…

What is OER?

OER Commons:

“Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.”

Most important to learners & educators!

FreeAccessible

Good Quality

Learners

✔

✔✗

Easily adapted Educators

Copyright OK

iTunes U OER Scorecard

Attractive to contributors

Usable Useful Used Sustainable

Profile ✔ User Experience ✔

Quality material ✔

Download numbers ✔

Over 800 universities ✔

‘Apple gloss’ ✔

Search function ✔

Consistency ✔

Teachers ✔ Apple ✔

International reach ✔

Apple mobile ✔

Copyright ✗ ✔−

Personal ✔ Benefit to contributors/institution ✔

Linux, Android✗

Feedback✗ ✔

Not very repurposable ✗ ✔

Discoverability ✗ ✔

Community ✗

Downloads

University Downloads

Open University, UK Over 38 million since June 2008

University of Oxford Over 10 million since June 2008

Coventry University 2.5 million in 2010 alone

University of Warwick 1 million Jan ‘09 – June ‘10

Cranfield University 5000 in 1st 10 days

31 August – 7 September iTunesU TweetsLanguage No. of Tweets Language No. of Tweets

English 155 Portuguese 3

Japanese 52 Croatian 2

French 34 Indonesian 2

Spanish 15 Russian 2

Turkish 5 China 1

German 3 Dutch 1

Norwegian 3 Korean 1

Polish 3 Slovak 1

Major ThemesTheme Example

Specific recommendation to another person

You might find MIT's OCW site of interest, also on iTunesU, for Python: http://t.co/DOYOOQ1

They just posted new lectures from @BunBTrillOG on iTunesU psyched to listen." << from when he was teaching @ Rice?

Man there's some good podcasts on itunesU for game theory.. Really good stuff..!

Report that I am learning something with iTunes U

Sunday morning with Paul Hegarty & iOS studies.

History of the Pixel –http://t.co/38YXIKI #iTunesU | RMIT University #iTunesU #VamosAqui

Unexpected themesTheme Example

Series Excellent videos to review Clinical Anatomy from Stanford University, presented by R.Snell. Fifteen episodes downloadable free from iTunesU.

@cells_nnm new lectures on iTunesU this winter. Story about the class here: http://t.co/IuZ

Addictive TunesU courses downloaded into the iPad = life is good. Dear iTunes, you are full of bloat but your collection of awesome lectures on iTunesU is both brilliant and addictive I have just discovered iTunesU...my life is now complete. The good: I haven't use iTunes in over a week! The bad: I am craving some iTunesU lectures…#iTunesU #VamosAqui

Other Impact• ‘Apple gloss’ ends up encouraging OER

discussion at institution

• PhD student applications improve

• Hits on university website increase

• Multimedia OER

• Mobile OER

• Beyond Campus

• K-12Photo courtesy of superkimbo on Flickr

How to jump in

How to jump in

How to jump in

Make it work for you

• www.le.ac.uk/spider

• tmb10@le.ac.uk

• Twitter: tbirdcymru

References • Yuan, L., MacNeill, S., Kraan, W. (2008) Open Educational

Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Educational Cybernetics: Reports 2008, 35. Retrieved from wiki.cetis.ac.uk

• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F

• http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1780

• http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/itunesu/impact/

• White, D., Wild, J., Masterman, L., Manton, M. (2011) JISC OER Impact Study: Research Report. Retrieved from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2/oerimpact.aspx