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- 1. www.le.ac.uk Sharing out to the world with iTunes U Terese Bird Learning Technologist & SCORE Research Fellow Institute of Learning Innovation 19 June, 2013
- 2. What will we talk about? • Who’s looking at iTunes U and why • Examples of Leics material & how to make them – Sound (Martin Parker) – Video (Jeremy, Dylan) – Text (Clinical) – Full iTunes U Course (Manufacturing Pasts) • Bad examples, how to avoid • Discussion: how might you use iTunes U? Photo courtesy of womensnet_gallery, Flickr
- 3. Facts about iTunes U • Way back in 2005… • Recorded lectures and a VLE, sort of • Over 1300 universities, plus museums, schools • Available in all countries (except maybe Sudan) • Windows & Macs • iPad
- 4. iTunes U v YouTube, Apple v Android
- 5. Why we launched it, at Leicester • Open Educational Resources movement & project • Signed with Apple – Told us to ‘just show your particular good stuff’ – Offered us free server space & made it easy to launch • ‘Could OER be used to attract students?’ • ‘Is it marketing or is it teaching?’ Both! • Public, except for some iTunes U Courses • Launched on 16 March 2013
- 6. Criteria for iTunes U team choices • Each item self-contained good learning content • ‘Live teaching’ is good, just look after the quality • Why audio? • Why video? • Inaugural lectures, public lectures
- 7. Who’s looking at it and why • Age groups from stats • Countries from stats • What China does – (Windows laptops plus iPhones) – Their own app which they translate
- 12. Examples of student voices • ‘Where are the sample lectures?’ • ‘I would have happily listened to all the lectures but what I got was ‘Management for Dummies’’ • ‘Lectures on YouTube? I wouldn’t even have checked there, that’s for kittens on a treadmill’ • ‘I searched for pharmaceutical lectures and listened to them on waterproof iPod while swimming’ • ‘I like to learn certain topics. I don’t like audio-only.’
- 13. Examples from Leicester - Sound • Martin Parker research talk • Ruth Page Twitter lecture • How did I make these? And how can you do it? – Good digital recorder – Audacity – show a picture of good sound – I add top and tail
- 14. SoundCloud • Like ‘YouTube for Audio’
- 15. Examples from Leicester - Video • Jeremy Levesley • Dylan Williams – campus, but moving to distance • How: Adobe Presenter • How: Narrated Powerpoint, change to .mov or mp4 • ScreenR • Use University of Leicester Powerpoint templates
- 16. Examples fro Leicester - Text • Clinical • Institute of Learning Innovation • Pdf • Epub – Calibre (free, all platforms) • .ibooks – iBooks Author (free, Mac only)
- 17. Examples from Leicester – iTunes U Course • Manufacturing Pasts
- 19. Copyright • Aiming for Creative Commons – Attribution – NonCommercial • Flickr or Google images – Creative Commons!
- 20. Discussion • How might you wish to use this channel in current teaching – Distance – Campus • We have students here! What do you think? • How might you use this channel to share out research? (Martin Parker, Criminology research presentations)
- 21. Want to try putting some material onto iTunes U? Contact Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk • Thank you!!!