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Stanford on iTunes

WorldChanging reports the availability of selective Stanford lectures for free on iTunes.

Stanford University has begun to make recordings of select lectures, speeches, interviews and events available on the iTunes Music Store, for free. The material currently available includes a number of WorldChanging-related topics: talks by Lawrence Lessig, Geoff Davis on Microfinance, Paul Erlich on Population and Sustainability, and over 50 presentations on Health and Medicine. A restricted access section provides course-related materials for students and instructors, as well.

Jamais Cascio comments........

On the one hand, Stanford has put out for public consumption a collection (which is intended to grow) of generally very good lectures and discussions, and has done so in a non-protected way; moreover, by using the iTunes store, they're piggybacking upon a system that already has a large following and seamless integration with the most common digital music player. On the other hand, by using the iTunes store, they're limiting the audience to people with relatively recent mainstream computers -- Simputers, Linux boxes, and the like need not apply. Because of the way the ITMS works, they may also be limiting the audience to people in the United States or North America.

Well, converting the digital content from one format to another is no big deal. Anyways, I believe that Stanford has redefined the concept of MIT Open Course Ware by bringing the knowledge to the masses in audio format. I think the video formats also will be availabe soon as iPod now supports video :-)

What I am really really looking forward is an iPod with an inbuilt camera to help me do easy Vodcasting (Video Podcasting).

Posted by Ramdhan Yadav at October 30, 2005 02:03 AM Perma Link