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Apple’s iTunes U smashes one billion downloads milestone

Chris Davies — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:59:14 +0000

Apple’s iTunes U has seen over one billion downloads of free educational content, the company has announced today, with some schools seeing courses with quarter-million registrations and 60m individual downloads. Revealed a little over a year ago, iTunes U offers free educational material and related content from universities, colleges, schools, K-12 districts, and private courses to

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Apple Education Event video now online

Chris Davies — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:18:42 +0000

Apple put the cat among the publishing pigeons yesterday at its education-themed event, with the launch of iBooks 2 with textbooks, iBooks Author to create interactive digital books, and iTunes U for full, free university and K-12 courses. Almost a million of you joined SlashGear yesterday for our Apple event liveblog; now the whole thing

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iTunes U Hands-On

Vincent Nguyen — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:07:33 +0000

iTunes U isn’t new – Apple first revealed its educational download store back in 2007 – but the new iTunes U app and companion service revealed today is. A suite of not just individual lessons but entire classes and curriculum, iTunes U opens the door to content from high profile schools like Duke, Yale, The

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iTunes U app released for iPad, teachers rejoice

Chris Burns — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:14:47 +0000

Teacher will soon be able to “do everything on their iPad” as Apple announced this week at their education-based event this week, as iTunes U brings forth a fully interactive set of tools that any teacher, professor, or otherwise leader can use. The user interface is very similar to what iBooks has to offer, this

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