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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 $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be a student. The nearly 500 tracks that constitute "Stanford on iTunes" are available to anyone willing to spend the few minutes it takes to download them from the Internet.'" Talaper noted the Official Apple Page on the program is up as well.
99 cents per lecture, get your ONLINE degree from iTunes today
Of the 500 available tracks, only 39 are lectures. The rest are sports, music, and random "Heard on campus" tracks that look like a blog. The available lectures look pretty cool though.
Glad to see other universities are following the trend set by MIT with their OpenCourseWare project. It's interesting to see universities have faith that putting this content out for public consumption will not detract from their mission.
Bradley Holt
Also consider that Stanford is a private university, not public.
Meanwhile the Vatican is defending copyrighting the Pope's pronouncements. Which, IMHO, is right up there with copyright of MLK's 'I Have A Dream' and Co$'s copyrighted "Trade Secrets"
Nice move ya floppy tree :-)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
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).
I already *paid* the $31,200 tuition you insensitive clod!
Making the content available is all positive for these universities. 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. In the end there's value in the degree because it certifies your knowledge. If you go for a job interview, etc, and say I downloaded Stanford's coursework from ITunes, I rather doubt they'd consider me on par with a Stanfor graduate.
It's a good thing for them because it builds their image. It shows an interest in promotion education in general and sharing knowledge with those who cannot afford the $30K+. It also gives prospective students a chance to see what that money would be going for before they shell it out. So really all around a good thing for them.
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You misspelled "hangovers" and "parties"
Good deal.
Sounds like a great idea!
Sounds like a nice counterpart to MIT's OpenCourseWare.
Unfortunately not... MIT's OpenCourseWare is well... Open.
Stanford on iTunes however requires an expensive piece of software (OS X or Windows) to use it.
I don't have a Mac, I don't run Windows - how am I supposed to access this?
I guess this what you can expect from a University that puts a 1 page FAQ in a PDF (why dear god, why?)
Good for some people I acknowledge, but no OpenCourseWare.
My pics.
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.
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!
-johnson
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.