iTunes U: A Successful Model of Open Educational Resource Distribution?

1. iTunes U:a successful model of OpenEducational Resource distribution?SPIDER: Sharing Practice with iTunes U DigitalEduational Resources Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Fellow Beyond Distance Research Alliance University of Leicester

2. iTunes U: the coolest OER channel Photos courtesy RJ Lammers, LHG Creative Photography, Flickr

3. iTunes U: the coolest OER channel • Born digital • Multimedia • Made for mobile • Apple gloss

4. What’ll we talk about? • A bit of history and facts • Is iTunes U an OER channel? • Elements of success • Futuregazing Photo courtesy of quiroso on Flickr

5. iTunes U for University

7. Power Search

8. Way back in 2005…

9. Not just universities

10. Is iTunes U OER?

11. What is OER? OER Commons: “Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared.”

13. Under the category “OER Tools and Services” Services” Yuan, L., MacNeill, S., Kraan, W. (2008) Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Educational Cybernetics: Reports 2008, 35. Retrieved from wiki.cetis.ac.uk

14. Elements of a successful OER channel • Attractive to contributors • Usable • Useful • Used (and re-used) • Sustainable Photo courtesy of San Mateo County Library on Flickr

15. iTunes U OER Success Factors

16. It’s all in the downloads

20. Snapshot via Twitter • 5th – 10th March 2011 • 12th – 17th March 2011 • “iTunesU” • 201 tweets • 154 English • 46 non-English

21. Characterising iTunes U Tweets

22. Sample tweets

23. Sample tweets Big Nerd Ranch 7 day iOS development course €3000, you’re havin a laugh, iTunesU is free This morning, Funding applications suck my soul of life, free lectures from Oxford on iTunesU help it heal #balance Hello iTunesU Where have you been all my life? No more watching random Mit lect on YouTube for me! If only my Mac made a heart symbol… @lifesatest spooky, had never heard of Khan Academy before today, now using one of their iTunesU podcasts in my teaching. What if iTunesU were an accredited institution capable of confirming degrees & upgraded to have social/collaborative learning? Hmmmm jst figured out how to get all the lectures frm this class off of itunesU...guess who's gnna pass their test tmrw?!?! SPSS Tutorials - The University of Minnesota has an excellent set of SPSS (now PASW) tutorials on iTunesU.... http://tumblr.com/xol1su3i15 Come visit me at the MI Learning booth in the exhibit hall from 11-11:30. Lear about free resources for MI teachers on iTunesU. #macul11

24. Other Impact • ‘Apple gloss’ ends up encouraging OER discussion at institution • PhD student applications improve • Hits on university website increase • Multimedia OER • Mobile OER • Beyond Campus • K-12 Photo courtesy of superkimbo on Flickr

25. Futuregazing Photo courtesy of FHKE on Flickr

27. Streaming

28. iTunes U: Successful, with caveats ✔

29. References • Yuan, L., MacNeill, S., Kraan, W. (2008) Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education, Educational Cybernetics: Reports 2008, 35. Retrieved from wiki.cetis.ac.uk • http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F • http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/1780 • http://projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/itunesu/impact/

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