iTunes U is that fancy edumacation thing where schools can post lectures and other teach-y media files for students and non-students to download and statistically lessen the coolness factor while simultaneously upping the boringness of their iPods. It’s proven to be a valuable tool for students of participating universities who now have even more excuses to skip class, and for non-students to take advantage of higher-education institutions without paying a dime.
Now, four other English-speaking countries have been “accepted” into iTunes U (get it? ha!)—Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK. (I bet my ACT scores were way better than theirs.)
Some noted participating universities, as reported by the Mothership and the Mothership UK, include Open University (foreign!), UC Berkeley, University College London (foreign!), University of Melbourne (foreign!), Texas A&M, MIT, Yale, Trinity College Dublin (foreign!) and many, many more. Users can download content for free from all participating universities and countries.
Check the Mothership UK’s post for specifics on what’s offered from the UK universities, and check out iTunes U (iTunes link) to see for yourself.
Interesting! The article headline seems to suggest US Americans speak English without accent?