Stanford Classes Now Available on iTunes

Chowser writes "Forbes is reporting Stanford University is now offering a wide range of content on iTunes. From the article: 'In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student. The nearly 500 tracks that constitute "Stanford on iTunes" are available to anyone willing to spend the few minutes it takes to download them from the Internet.'" Talaper noted the Official Apple Page on the program is up as well.

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cheap degrees @ home

[hardticket]

99 cents per lecture, get your ONLINE degree from iTunes today

Re:cheap degrees @ home

[Zathrus]

based upon actual Stanford materials, but with our EZ-Pass exams!

Hey, you can get the real exams too! You just need to get access to a fraternity/sorority's word file...

Now you tell me

[Anonymous Coward]

I already *paid* the $31,200 tuition you insensitive clod!

Without the diploma...

[everphilski]

Without the piece of paper, the education is meaningless :)

Classes on iTunes

[BarkLouder]

Man, when I first read the headline, I thought they were teaching about iTunes. That would be a popular class.

Re:Harvard Extension

[ToxikFetus]

classes that I missed due to illness or work schedule conflicts

You misspelled "hangovers" and "parties"

I'm reminded of Good Will Hunting

[rtphokie]

"You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library."

Re:"No need to be a student" is overstating it

[Fishstick]

Exactly -- what, on your resume under 'Education' you're gonna list "downloaded everything I need to know on my iPod"?

Finishing touch

[wombatmobile]

If I downloaded everything they made, and studied it thoroughly, I might have a strong grasp of the subject matter but I still wouldn't have a degree from MIT or Stanford.

...until shortly after you downloaded Photoshop.

Huh?

[jd]

39 lectures to 461 random tunes/gossip... Sounds about the ratio most students go for. If anything, it might be a little heavy on the course material.

(I don't think anybody was seriously looking at iTunes as a rival to the UK's Open University program, where they've been doing remote broadcasts of lectures for a long time now.)

Once in a while you can get shown the light

[digitaldc]

No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student.

Funny, that's exactly the way I felt about college when I went on tour with the Grateful Dead.

Re:This is impressive

[Dhalka226]

Meanwhile the Vatican is defending copyrighting the Pope's pronouncements.

Bah! Who needs the Pope. If god wants to talk to me, he'll send a flaming shrubbery. A nice one. But not too expensive.

Holy DRM, Batman!

[EnsilZah]

When you think of it, DRM is not so incompatible with the bible.
The whole tree of knowledge debacle was all about this.

God is all like "No distribution of my IP".
Then the Snake is all like "I haves the 0-day".
And then Eve is all like "Adam, dude, here's a torrent".
Adam to Eve "No way, God will totally rootkit our ass".
Eve back to Adam "Chillax, guy".
Then Adam is like "K".
And God totally kickbans them from the server.

Re:Free as in beer?

[Antonymous Flower]

Have a look at the video lectures in Professor Lewin's Physics I course of 1999--pretty entertaining stuff!

Hey buddy, I think you're doing it wrong. :)

Re:good deal

[mpfife]

I don't have a Mac, I don't run Windows - how am I supposed to access this?

I guess we have the answer to the question "Name one thing I can't do with my Linux that you can do with your PC/Mac"