PROVIDENCE – After a five-month beta phase, Brown University this month officially launched its own page on iTunes U, a section of Apple Inc.’s popular digital media store that features free educational audio and video files from institutions around the world.
Brown on iTunes U is co-sponsored by two departments, Public Affairs and University Relations and Computing & Information Services and features content aimed at “a broad public audience.”
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The material is uploaded by Brown and stored on Apple’s servers, and individuals can download it onto their PCs, Macs or portable music players.
“Brown on iTunes U provides a secondary, supplemental opportunity to widely distribute digital lectures, music, performances and more that convey academic and intellectual opportunities at Brown,” the university explains on its Web site. “It is not meant to replace other methods of distributing material (for example, embedding content on the brown.edu Web site). But it is a way to reach a different audience, an audience that might not usually visit brown.edu.”
Apple created iTunes U in May 2007 and now hosts more than 200,000 educational audio and video files, according to the company. Other organizations that use the service include Yale University, Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as PBS and museums.
