Education Transformation

Do you remember life before the internet?  Sometimes it can be far too difficult to think back to a time when you did not have everything right at your fingertips just a click away.  I remember when the encyclopedia was the best tool for finding facts and information to answer all sorts of questions.  Now, we depend so greatly on Google to figure out the answers to our questions and more.  Yes, the internet has certainly changed up the way we do practically everything.  One of the greatest impacts the internet has actually had is the impact on education.  Think about all of the unique ways the internet had influenced and changed education.

iTunes U

On May 30, 2007, iTunes U was announced  by Apple Inc in Cupertino, California. The new service, available through iTunes, would manage, and distribute access to educational media content and files for students of a college or university. Non-students and ordinary Internet users could also access the information, contributing to the “open university” project.

Schools and other institutions receive their own iTunes U sites nested inside of Apple’s iTunes Store infrastructure. There is no cost incurred for anyone who is either uploading or downloading material. Course lectures, foreign language lessons, science lab demonstrations, campus tours, and sports event highlights are all provided by qualifying “two- and four-year accredited, degree-granting, public or private colleges and universities in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom.”  Apple is strict about the regulation of college and university involvement in iTunes U.