Public iTunes U Sites V4

A year ago, Apple launched a new version of the iTunes Music Store which included an iTunes U link and 16 colleges whose podcasts can be accessed directly from the iTunes application. Happily, NJIT was one of the initial 16 schools.

Since then, they have also opened up the iTunes U area to "educational" organizations that are not universities. You can find podcasts in the "Beyond Campus" area from the NY Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and others.

My updated list of schools below have partnered with Apple, Inc. to use iTunes U. This list was first posted in January 2007 when we launched our own instance of NJIT on iTunes.

Though I am no longer at NJIT or involved in iTunes U, I try to keep up on schools that offer a public face in iTunes U both to see what they are offering and to download materials. Although a lot of content is specific to a school (admissions, sports etc.), there are also public course materials and speakers that have a much broader appeal and real educational value.

This list is not official, definitive or complete - but I'll keep at it here until one that is appears.

If you know of a school that has a public presence on iTunes U, please add a link with a comment at the bottom of this entry and I'll add it to the list. NOTE: These are public sites, not those schools that have podcasts available in the iTunes Music Store but only as password-protected content for their own students. Of course, all these sites will require the free iTunes software to access and play or download content.

1. NJIT on iTunes U information & launch page or open directly in iTunes
2. Bowdoin College
3. Penn State on iTunes U
4. Stanford on iTunes U
5. Duke Digital Initiative - Open Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
6. Harvard Extension School
7. University of California at Berkeley
8. Sacramento State - open in iTunes
9. Arizona State University
10. Texas A&M
11. Ross School of Business at U of Michigan
12. Santa Monica College
13. University of California at Berkeley
14. Queens University (Canada)
15. Wellesley College
16. Georgia College and State University
17. Rollins College
18. Radford College - open Radford
19. Gordon College - open Gordon College
20. Lafayette College
21. Virginia Tech
22. Guilford Tech Community College
23. Concordia Seminary
24. Otis College of Art & Design
25. College of William & Mary
26. Villanova University
27. Florida Tech
28. Ohlone College
29. Texas Tech
30. Wilkes University
31. Seattle Pacific University
32. Abilene Christian University
33. Reformed Theological Seminary
34. Southwestern College
35. University of Michigan
36. Vanderbilt University
37. New Mexico State University
38. Agnes Scott College
39. Aquinas Institute of Theology
40. East Tennessee State University
41. UC - Davis
42. University of Washington
43. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

We welcome your comments below with the URLs to other schools with public access to iTunes U. Though some schools are listed right within iTunes, there are plenty more that are not, so this list hopefully broadens the exposure of all the schools. James Welsh has created a wiki of participating schools (which is a better 2.0 idea than this post) at http://itunesu.pbwiki.com/ that you can also check out.

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