On Feb 28, 2013, Apple® announced that iTunes U®
content downloads have topped one billion. iTunes U features the world’s
largest online catalog of free educational content from top schools and
prominent libraries, museums and organizations helping educators create
courses including lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and more for
iOS users around the world.
“It’s inspiring to see what
educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy
Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services.
“With the incredible content offered on iTunes U, students can learn
like never before―there are now iTunes U courses with more than 250,000
students enrolled in them, which is a phenomenal shift in the way we
teach and learn.”
More than 1,200 universities and colleges, and
1,200 K-12 schools and districts host over 2,500 public and thousands of
private courses encompassing the arts, sciences, health and medicine,
education, business and more. Leading universities including Duke, Yale,
Cambridge, MIT and Oxford continue to extend their reach by enrolling
more than 100,000 students in single iTunes U courses, with Stanford
University and The Open University each surpassing 60 million content
downloads. The Ohio State University’s Matthew “Dr. Fus” Stoltzfus’
General Chemistry course enrolled over 100,000 iTunes U students in the
first year it was offered.
“The interest my iTunes U course
receives from non-college students is overwhelming,” said Professor
Stoltzfus. “I’ve been working with high school teachers who use my
iTunes U material to prepare to teach their own classes, high school
students all over the world who are leveraging the course to tutor their
fellow classmates, even retirees who download my iTunes U course to
stay intellectually active.”
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