Terese Bird The Impact on Learning of iTunes U OER
Transcript of Terese Bird The Impact on Learning of iTunes U OER
The Impact on Learningof iTunes U
Open Educational Resources
Terese BirdLearning Technologist and SCORE Fellow
Beyond Distance Research AllianceUniversity of Leicester
23 March, 2011
Characterising iTunes U TweetsCategory of Tweet Number
Use iTunesU material to teach others 4
Use for oneself – just interested 13
Use for oneself – learn something specific 10
Technical discussion 7
Academic discussion 15
General positive 20
General positive – OER-related 3
Negative 1
University of LeicesterMicrobiology Bytes iTunes podcasts
164 episodes; each file downloaded average of 73x every month at peak(Courtesy of Dr Alan Cann, University of Leicester Department of Biology http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/microbiologybytes-enhanced/id177803088)
Other Impact• PhD student applications improve• Hits on university website increase• Multimedia OER• Mobile OER• Beyond Campus• K-12
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