iTunes U

[sylliegurl]

I'm curious what pylduck has to say about this...

In any case, I'm really glad to get access to education anyway I can:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_10019766?sr=hotnews

Comments

[pylduck]

I'll have to look up those podcasts! I don't have much to say about the "free lectures" thing. Lots of schools and professors have been experimenting with them. (I don't think the article mentions that one year, Duke gave all incoming first-year students iPods with the intention of encouraging professors to integrate mp3 technology into their teaching.) I'm really interested in technology and education, actually. But since I don't lecture, this idea of putting lectures on podcasts is alien to me. I'd be more interested in hearing how people teach via mp3 beyond recording lectures. What kinds of assignments might ask students to create podcasts? How would those assignments activate particular learning skills and approaches that differ from older technologies?

Junius:

[anonymous]

I think it’s the cat’s meow, Sylvs!-Save I have a Zune, not an Ipod, and have yet to even load a whisper on it. It’s not right for knowledge to be locked up in the Ivory Tower, for only those that can afford to pay a fee for the key.

Death to the lawers and the poets! Whoohoo!

Re: Junius:

[anonymous]

Er, lawyers, them too.