Cupertino, March 2006 - A recent issue of Class Notes: Weekly Insights on the Education Industry, an education investment newsletter published by the Robert W. Baird Education Services team, reports that Apple Computer is adding coursecasting to its list of offerings.
Apple will allow any college or university to set up a customized portion of the iTunes Music Store to distribute course content and other audio and video material. Dubbed "iTunesU", the free service will let institutions limit use of some materials to certain people and make other content available to all. Participating colleges will be given software that will make it easy for professors or students to upload content to the service. The files themselves will be stored on servers run by Apple, but college administrators will have control over who can see the files.
The service has been available in beta form over the past year at Brown, Duke, and Stanford Universities, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) School of Dentistry, the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
