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Conferences and knowledge on demand by students everywhere – iTunes U Concept

Mobile Learning and iTunes U – Thinking outside the classroom

Learning does not occur in the classroom. Students need constant access to information and knowledge, wherever they are. To support this, academic institutions are beginning to use iTunes U site to distribute digital lessons their students. It pioneered the concept developed by Apple. However, we expect than others to keep track of your version of this, other gadgets are capable of doing the same things that the iPhone and iPodTouch happened. However, learning what Apple has done this and provide public services and opportunities, it is interesting to see how academic institutions have dealt with this concept and what their experience with him till now.

First a bit of mobile training

Students are already in school computers laptops and peripherals such as an iPhone and iPod in hand. They are used to collect information on the web, receive email, see conferences, direction or say exactly where your friends – anytime, anywhere.

Now you can learn anytime, anywhere, too. As educators around the world are discovering, learning mobile machinery. Students participate devour custom programs when it comes to iPod or iPhone. It is a family and part essential to their lives. Audio and video podcasts you can study at their own pace, as long as they wish.

So, when Apple made the learning Mobile Reality

Laptops and mobile devices and server software iTunes U, Apple makes all the technology you need learning phone into a reality for their students.

Teachers use the iLife and iWork on the Mac to create educational materials, such as language courses that students can listen outside the classroom. With the help of Podcast Producer and Wiki Server – both of which are ship with Mac OS X Server – the school department can help produce and distribute all kinds of multimedia content iTunes U or a class wiki. After the class presentations and conferences have been caught and released, students can download from iTunes. You can then transfer them to your iPod or iPhone and enjoy them all. And suddenly, anywhere can be a place of learning.

Concept is either an internal Apple iTunes U

If you want to allow access only to members of your institution, you can host your own Web site protected by iTunes U. password This allows you to create and manage the content available on the site, while controlling who can access and download the same resources.

Because the administrative access is integrated with Apple ID, it is easy to configure and manage your website, and you can add more Apple ID account to share responsibility Site management. Or you can integrate your management systems scale identity management and access to hundreds or thousands of users. Defect iTunes U supports Shibboleth (Based on standards, open source authentication system), or you can create scripts for integration with popular systems transfer authentication, including Kerberos, LDAP, Active Directory, and others. Apple also provides templates that can be customized with your own brand, and can use tools as RSS easily add and remove content. To ensure compatibility, the media that you provide must be in AAC, MP3, MPEG-4, or PDF.

Apple also offers the opportunity to make iTunes U external

You can also make your course material accessible to all visitors to iTunes – Next to the content created by other institutions. External sites are also a great recruiting tool, offering an economical way to explain the benefits your institution has to offer. This open iTunes U, your institution can gain the recognition and competitive edge, to join and share your knowledge with the world. The media should be formatted as AAC, MP3, MPEG-4, or PDF. As with the internal sites, administrative access is controlled by Apple ID, and you can add more accounts shared responsibilities for site management. Apple models allow you to build your own brand, and you may request the inclusion of travel search and to provide visitors find your content on iTunes, and expand the content that you post. ITunes U external sites are not only available to universities. Many museums, stations public broadcasting, public education organizations also educational content available worldwide through iTunes U on the iTunes Store.

Some schools have a mixture of both

Many schools choose to create an internal site with both a greater amount of material is offered exclusively to students enrolled in a user account and password and an external site that provides a subset of these resources available to the public.

Examples academic institutions present their iTunes U sites

Carnegie Mellon
iTMS: / / Deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/cmu.edu

Oxford University
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ox-ac-uk-public

Cambridge University
iTMS: / / deimos.apple.com / WebObjects / Core.woa / Explorer / cam-ac-uk-public

Open University
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.open.ac.uk

Stanford University
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu

MIT
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/mit.edu

Edutopia
iTMS: / / deimos.apple.com / WebObjects / Core.woa / Explorer / edutopia.org

Texas A & M
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/tamu-public

IDEAL Arizona
iTMS: / / deimos.apple.com / WebObjects / Core.woa / Explorer / asu.edu

Teachers WGBH/PBS- domain
iTMS: / / deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/wgbh

What counts is that most institutions have made this available to the public in the U.S., however, there are other institutions elsewhere that have used this concept in his arms. We will discuss this in a later article.

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