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I have to admit an interest in this as I work for them, but the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/ http://www.open.ac.uk/) do have quite a lot of material

I have to admit an interest in this as I work for them, but the Open University (http://www.open.ac.uk/ http://www.open.ac.uk/) do have quite a lot of material online.... http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/ http://open.edu/itunes/ http://open.edu/itunes/ http://www.youtube.com/user/oulearn http://www.youtube.com/user/oulearn

danohuiginn 15y ago
That is a lot of material. Thanks. minor grumble: why, why, WHY do so many universities put their content on ItunesU, thus making it all but inaccessible for those of us not already using apple software. Even dumping a pile of MP3s on a server somewhere would make your material much more accessible.
- DuckPaddle 15y ago
  Follow the money...
- Turing_Machine 15y ago
  iTunes U is essentially just a directory service for the convenience of iTunes users. The actual content is in fact still stored on the school's server, just as you say -- a very common way of populating iTunes U is through RSS feeds from some internal system (not necessarily Apple-based). If the content is free, there's no reason why they shouldn't make it available through alternate links/feeds. You could try complaining to the person in charge. :-)
  - Turing_Machine 15y ago
    Possibly of interest (I haven't tried these myself): http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tunesviewer-itunes-university-media-and-podcasts-in-linux.html http://www.ubuntugeek.com/tunesviewer-itunes-university-medi... http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2009/05/13/browsing-itunesu-without-intalling-itunes/ http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2009/05/13/browsing-itunesu-wit...
    - danohuiginn 15y ago
      aha! they look very useful (assuming they work). Thanks so much :)