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www.le.ac.uk
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
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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
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iTunes U for University
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iTunes U USPs
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Power Search
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Not just universities
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Is iTunes U OER?
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Way back in 2005…
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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.”
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Most important to learners & educators!
FreeAccessible
Good Quality
Learners
✔
✔✗
Easily adapted Educators
Copyright OK
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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 ✗
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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How to jump in
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How to jump in
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How to jump in
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Make it work for you
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• www.le.ac.uk/spider
• Twitter: tbirdcymru
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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