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Sharing out to the world with iTunes U

Terese BirdLearning Technologist & SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning Innovation19 June, 2013

What will we talk about?• Who’s looking at iTunes U and

why

• Examples of Leics material & how to make them– Sound (Martin Parker)– Video (Jeremy, Dylan)– Text (Clinical)– Full iTunes U Course

(Manufacturing Pasts)

• Bad examples, how to avoid

• Discussion: how might you use iTunes U?

Photo courtesy of womensnet_gallery, Flickr

Facts about iTunes U

• Way back in 2005…

• Recorded lectures and a VLE, sort of

• Over 1300 universities, plus museums, schools

• Available in all countries (except maybe Sudan)

• Windows & Macs

• iPad

iTunes U v YouTube, Apple v Android

Why we launched it, at Leicester• Open Educational Resources movement & project

• Signed with Apple– Told us to ‘just show your particular good stuff’– Offered us free server space & made it easy to

launch

• ‘Could OER be used to attract students?’

• ‘Is it marketing or is it teaching?’ Both!

• Public, except for some iTunes U Courses

• Launched on 16 March 2013

• Richard III was number 2 on April Fools Day

Criteria for iTunes U team choices

• Each item self-contained good learning content

• ‘Live teaching’ is good, just look after the quality

• Why audio?

• Why video?

• Inaugural lectures, public lectures

Who’s looking at it and why

• Age groups from stats

• Countries from stats

• What China does– (Windows laptops plus iPhones)– Their own app which they translate

Examples of student voices

• ‘Where are the sample lectures?’

• ‘I would have happily listened to all the lectures but what I got was ‘Management for Dummies’’

• ‘Lectures on YouTube? I wouldn’t even have checked there, that’s for kittens on a treadmill’

• ‘I searched for pharmaceutical lectures and listened to them on waterproof iPod while swimming’

• ‘I like to learn certain topics. I don’t like audio-only.’

Examples from Leicester - Sound

• Martin Parker research talk

• Ruth Page Twitter lecture

• How did I make these? And how can you do it?– Good digital recorder– Audacity – show a picture of good sound– I add top and tail

SoundCloud

• Like ‘YouTube for Audio’

Examples from Leicester - Video

• Jeremy Levesley

• Dylan Williams – campus, but moving to distance

• How: Adobe Presenter

• How: Narrated Powerpoint, change to .mov or mp4

• ScreenR

• Use University of Leicester Powerpoint templates

Examples fro Leicester - Text

• Clinical

• Institute of Learning Innovation

• Pdf

• Epub – Calibre (free, all platforms)

• .ibooks – iBooks Author (free, Mac only)

Examples from Leicester – iTunes U Course

• Manufacturing Pasts

Copyright

• Aiming for Creative Commons – Attribution – NonCommercial

• Flickr or Google images – Creative Commons!

Discussion

• How might you wish to use this channel in current teaching– Distance– Campus

• We have students here! What do you think?

• How might you use this channel to share out research? (Martin Parker, Criminology research presentations)

Want to try putting some material onto iTunes U?

Contact Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk

• Thank you!!!