iTunes University

ITunes is a great educational tool for educators and students. With iPods the classroom can be taken anywhere a bench in a park, in the car, or riding a bus. IPods allow you to be able to listen to lectures and podcast anywhere anytime. ITunes University allows educators to publish their lectures and notes on iTunes and students are able to download them to their iPods and replay their lessons over and over.

Some universities have published all of their lectures and professor notes on iTunes so that students have access to them. Students are also able to download podcast to their iPods. Instructional videos can also be loaded to an iPod. The new 3g iPods are able to access Wi-Fi even if its location is not close.

In closing I think iTunes have great academic potential if educators can look past the entertainment aspect. Almost all electronic devices now have multi-purposes if we can look deeper than entertainment value. Computers were once for business purposes have now exploded with music video and gaming capabilities, yet we push schools into using them for learning and broadening our students’ horizons into the virtual classroom why not do the same with iPods. We as educators have to embrace all the new technologies ideas for our student’s sake.