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.

Comments

"No need to be a student" is overstating it

[SoCalChris]

Of the 500 available tracks, only 39 are lectures. The rest are sports, music, and random "Heard on campus" tracks that look like a blog. The available lectures look pretty cool though.

University of Wisconsin, others also

[daveschroeder]

First of all, this has been around at Stanford since October 2005. This was covered at Ars Technica a month and a half ago (including the Stanford on iTunes site and store).

Second, this is also available at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, as well as other schools, such as UC Berkeley.

What's actually "new" here is that Apple has productized this service for educational institutions in the form of iTunes U, announced yesterday.

Though those who haven't heard of it before may be interested in Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford.

Please note that iTunes U operates on a different server (deimos.apple.com) than the normal music store (phobos.apple.com).

Re:Free as in beer?

[084883447]

yup, free like MIT free: opencourseware Actually, it is really great. Some of the MIT courses have videos of the lectures. Have a look at the video lectures in Professor Lewin's Physics I course of 1999--pretty entertaining stuff!