iTunes U

This ties back to the ipods in the classroom post from before. And in theory, it is a great idea.

The ability for students to download class information for use is a brilliant, if not, necessary tool for the times. Honestly the only problem that I can see with it is that it requires that you get an IPod, a similar service allowing for use with any MP3/MP4 player would be better in the aspect of user compliance, but that is neither here nor there.

This is a bold step in bringing the classroom further into the digital age, a fantastic venture in student/teacher interaction. As well as a sign of things to come in the idea of full classes being online, not only in the form of a weakly programmed web page hosted on a school’s most likely out of date server, but an opportunity to incorporate full, proper lectures, complete with audio and video, as well as access to the resources to take full advantage of the learning opportunity.
The hardest part of an educator’s job, I would think, is, what is the best medium in which to deliver the information allowing for the highest rate of data absorption on the part of the pupil. With weapons like iTunes University in their arsenal, it just adds one more way for the teacher to reach the student, and there is no problem or downside to a goal like that.