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April 27, 2006
UC Berkeley joins iTunes University
UC Berkeley has joined the dozen or so universities that are publishing materials on iTunes. Cal is offering podcasts of courses, events, and campus features. This is partly a follow up to its earlier webcasting efforts - http://webcast.berkeley.edu/ - built on Real Media.
The courses (aka "coursecasts") are following the MIT OpenCourse lead, and the lectures are available for public download to folks on and off campus. Currently the 27 courses come from the sciences - Biology 1, Chemistry 1, Physics 8. Interesting exceptions are Hubert Dreyfus's (Philosophy 7: "Existentialism in Literature and Film" ) and Jennifer Burn's History 7B: From the Civil War to the Present. There is also an undergraduate polytical science symposium featuring what appears to be weekly guest's from the Bay Area.
The events category focuses on campus lectures and performance - Arts has the poetry lunch, and with 36 podcasts accounts for nearly half of the offerings.
The campus life has tours, sport events, etc.
The press release describing the program notes that the reach is indeed global. "At each lecture, I feel that I am presenting European history not just to my students but to the world," said UC Berkeley history professor Thomas Laqueur , who has received positive feedback from subscribers in Sweden, India and China, among other countries. [History 5, European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present]
By Yasmin Anwar, Campus extends reach to iPod generation, Media Relations, 25 April 2006.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/04/25_podcast.shtml
Posted by sjc at April 27, 2006 8:54 AM
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