iTunes U.Apple's new iTunes U, is a free, hosted content management system allowing colleges and universities to provide students and faculty with easy access to their educational content, including lectures, interviews, audio books, video, and more through the same technology as the iTunes music store. The company, which began a pilot hosting program with Stanford, Duke, the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , the University of Missouri, and Brown Last year, is now inviting other interested schools to participate. Apple offers transparent branding so iTunes U can carry individual school logos and images, yet still function like iTunes. Content is protected through a secure sign-on feature, and iTunes U includes online editing Online editing is generally the final stage of video editing. When the offline edit is complete, the pictures are re-assembled at full or 'online' resolution. An edit decision list or equivalent is used to carry over the cuts and dissolves from the offline. tools for course managers. The system complements [earning management systems, including Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System. (2) The traditional classroom presentation board that is written on with chalk and erased with a felt pad. Although originally black, "white" boards and colored chalks are also used. , WebCT, and Sakai, and features integrated podcasting Recording a non-music audio broadcast (news, sports, discussion, etc.) in the MP3 format for playback in a digital music player. See podcast. support to automatically generate a podcast (iPOD broadCAST) An audio broadcast that has been converted to an MP3 file or other audio file format for playback in a digital music player or computer. The "pod" in podcast was coined from "iPod," the predominant portable, digital music player, and although podcasts are feed from within any course. Learn more at www.apple.com/education /solutions/itunes--u. |
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