Australian Universities Hit iTunes U
When I was studying at Uni, the Internet was just starting to gain traction. As a result, my favourite lectures were the ones that I didn’t have to attend because all the notes and transcripts were online.
Today, students from a heap of Unis around Australia and NZ get an even sweeter gig, with lectures, guest speeches and videos from The Australian National University, Griffith University, Swinburne University, University of Melbourne, University of NSW, University of WA and Otago University all hitting iTunes U.
So now a whole new breed of students get to enjoy their university bar rather than the boredom of their lectures. Maybe I should think about getting my Masters…
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Hmm can us non-students get a bit of free learning this way??
Half the lecturers at Sydney uni can’t even be bothered using any of the current variety of systems scattered across the uni to provide lecture recordings or even written notes
(we’ve got webCT, moodle, lectopia and blackboard… Maybe others?
Thats interesting. I attend ANU. I’m not sure where itunes data is generally stored, but it would be nice to be able to pop onto the intranet on campus and download a bucket of podcasts, without using up download quotas.
Having said that, we get podcasts in our physics class and theyre not the kind of static infested evil I would wish on anyone.
What a surprise, no UTS. Apparently I attend the University of Technology – yet it’s a Uni that is very late to support tecnology in many aspects
no qut???