{"id":8499,"date":"2010-08-24T12:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2010-08-24T16:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T20:48:21","slug":"itunes-u-downloads-top-300-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/24\/itunes-u-downloads-top-300-million\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes U downloads top 300 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2010\/08\/24itunes.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes U downloads top 300 million<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; press release from Apple.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">CUPERTINO, California\u2014August 24, 2010\u2014<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In just over three years, iTunes\u00ae U  downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world\u2019s  most popular online educational catalogs.<\/span><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Over 800 universities  throughout the world have active iTunes U sites,<\/strong><\/span> and nearly half of  these institutions distribute their content publicly on the iTunes  Store\u00ae. New content has just been added from universities in China, Hong  Kong, Japan, Mexico and Singapore, and iTunes users now have access to  over 350,000 audio and video files from educational institutions around  the globe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201ciTunes U makes it easy for people to discover and learn with content  from many of the world\u2019s top institutions,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> said Eddy Cue, Apple\u2019s vice  president of Internet Services. \u201cWith such a wide selection of  educational material, we\u2019re providing iTunes users with an incredible  way to learn on their computer, iPhone, iPod or iPad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Created in collaboration with colleges and universities, iTunes U makes  it easy to extend learning, explore interests or learn more about a  school. A dedicated area within the iTunes Store (<a onclick=\"s_objectID=&quot;http:\/\/www.itunes.com\/_1&quot;;return  this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itunes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.iTunes.com<\/a>),  iTunes U offers users public access to content from world class  institutions such as<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, University of  Melbourne and Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/span>. iTunes U gives anyone the chance  to experience university courses, lab demonstrations, sports highlights,  campus tours and special lectures. All iTunes U content is free and can  be enjoyed on a Mac\u00ae or PC, or wirelessly downloaded directly onto an  iPhone\u00ae, iPod touch\u00ae and iPad\u2122.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also see the following graphic (from <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/24\/itunes-u-enrollment-soars\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2010\/08\/24\/itunes-u-enrollment-soars\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/screen-shot-2010-08-24-at-10-10-09-am.png\" alt=\"http:\/\/fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/screen-shot-2010-08-24-at-10-10-09-am.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iTunes U downloads top 300 million &#8212; press release from Apple.com CUPERTINO, California\u2014August 24, 2010\u2014In just over three years, iTunes\u00ae U downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world\u2019s most popular online educational catalogs. Over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,35,95,62,76],"tags":[639,654,585,16,712,77,601],"class_list":["post-8499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-online-learning","category-open-courseware-and-systems","tag-apple","tag-content-repositories","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-global-learning","tag-itunes-u","tag-ocw","tag-online-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8499"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8535,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8499\/revisions\/8535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}