Apple Launches New iTunes U App for iOS Devices
Apple today brought its educational contents from iTunes to iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to an app called iTunes U. It is a great way to promote the iOS platform to millions of students and educators worldwide.
The free app allows teachers to create and to manage lectures, assignments, books, quizzes and syllabuses and make them available to iOS users. Currently the portal covers world’s largest catalog of free educational content from top universities including Cambridge, Duke, Harvard, Oxford and Stanford, and starting today any K-12 school district can offer full courses through the iTunes U app.
iTunes U has already become a popular learning tool for students with over 700 million downloads.
“The all-new iTunes U app enables students anywhere to tap into entire courses from the world’s most prestigious universities,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “Never before have educators been able to offer their full courses in such an innovative way, allowing anyone who’s interested in a particular topic to learn from anywhere in the world, not just the classroom.”
With the iTunes U app, students are able to access new books right from within the app, and any notes taken in iBooks are consolidated for easy reviewing. In addition to reading books, viewing presentations, lectures and assignment lists, students can receive push notifications so they always have the latest class information
Educators can quickly and easily create, manage and share their courses, quizzes and handouts through a web-based tool and utilize content and links from the iTunes U app,
[Source Apple]
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