Apple® today 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.
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iTunes U features the world's largest online catalog of free
educational content from top schools and prominent libraries, museums
and organizations.
“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.”
Over 60 percent of iTunes U app downloads originate from outside the US,
giving schools of any size the ability to share their content with a
worldwide audience. The unmatched global reach of iTunes U gives
educators, like University of California, Irvine Professor Dan Stokols,
international recognition and acclaim in their fields.
“Because of iTunes U, I have been able to introduce students and
colleagues in China to research on the links between chronic
multi-tasking, information overload and stress; discuss research
publications and degree programs with students in Europe; and exchange
information about the influence of neighborhood design on community
levels of physical activity and obesity with students in Australia,”
said Professor Stokols, whose Environmental Psychology course enrolls
over 170,000 students on iTunes U. “The opportunity to impact so many
students who are gaining interest in environmental psychology by taking
my free course on iTunes U has been highly rewarding and gratifying for
me as an educator and learner.”
“I see success unfolding before me on a daily basis,” says Chrissy
Boydstun, a teacher from Mansfield Independent School District in Texas
which provides each of their over 10,000 high school students and
faculty with an iPad®. “Students are engaged and working hard as they
use the incredible amount of information at their fingertips in a way
that is meaningful and impactful. I love the way iTunes U provides a
roadmap to take students beyond what a typical lesson or lecture could
achieve.”
Educators can create iTunes U courses in 30 countries including recent
additions: Brazil, South Korea, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. These
courses, and other education content, can be accessed via the iTunes U
app in 155 countries. In addition to thousands of individual iTunes U
learning materials, over 75,000 educational apps are now available for
iOS devices on the App Store℠. Additionally, with the free iBooks®
Author app on the Mac® App Store, writers and publishers continue to
bring ideas and stories to life sharing more than 10,000 original
Multi-Touch™ books with the world.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with
OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital
music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store,
and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with
iPad.
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