Built in software via iLife

Every Mac comes with iLife and offers tools that help educators easily create audio and video content for their classes; then with Podcast Producer they can do the formatting and publishing to large audiences. With iTunes U students now have access to free educational content and teachers can also access great ideas and resources. All students can download this content to a Mac, keep it all organised, and automatically sync to an iPod touch or iPhone for playback anytime, anywhere.

To see a video example on creating enhanced podcasts go to the “Apple in action” area.

iTunes U - Open University

Learn anything, anytime, anywhere iTunes U brings the power of the iTunes Store to education, making it simple to distribute information to your students and faculty — or to lifelong learners all over the world. With an iTunes U site, your institution has a single home for all the digital content created or curated by educators, which can then be easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone.

The Open University is also available on iTunes U where you can download open educational resources free from The Open University, the specialists in distance learning. To find out more visit http://www.open.ac.uk/itunes/

The benefits of Apple mobile learning

• Enable pupils to access more relevant education content anywhere, anytime.
• Offer new engaging ways of learning and accessing information with iTunes U and the apps.
• Offer a complete end to end solution for creating, distributing and accessing high quality educational podcasts.
• Offer a solution that is easy to use and implement.
• Scale distribution of education content at competitive cost.

One of the great advantages to mobile learning is that students can access podcasts, research via itunes Open University or simply visit websites, all from where ever they feel comfortable. Whether that be at home, in a cafe or even at the gym.