System lets universities distribute material to students: iTunes U.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief article)

Macworld, May, 2006 by Cohen, Peter

Getting good notes from college lectures used to mean lugging a tape recorder to class or frantically scribbling down every word a professor said. Now Apple is offering a higher-tech alternative--iTunes. The iTunes U program (macworld.com/1172) lets universities post educational audio and video, interviews, audio books, and more online, using an interface based on the iTunes Music Store.

Since Duke University became the first member of the program last year, Apple has added five schools: Brown University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, the University of Missouri, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apple hosts the content on its servers, for free. Instructors post and change...

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