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Stanford Extends Campus and Services Through iTunes

by , 10:50 AM EDT, October 28th, 2005

Apple and Stanford University have teamed up to create Stanford on iTunes. The service provides faculty lectures, interviews, music, book readings, and more through the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). Most content is available to the public, although course-based materials are limited to current students.

Searching the iTMS for Stanford's lectures and other content won't turn up much. Instead, a special link from the Stanford web site opens iTunes and takes you to the content. Currently, there are over 300 pubic downloads and about 100 reserved for faculty and students.


Stanford on iTunes

The diversity in the programming Stanford offers will entice iTunes users from around the world, increasing awareness and interest in the University's projects. Alumni now have a more dynamic way to stay up to date on Campus happenings, and students no longer have to record lectures themselves. Instead, they can wait until later in the day and download recordings of their classes.

Howard Wolf, vice president for alumni affairs and president of the Stanford Alumni Association, commented in the Stanford Report, "Stanford has been fortunate to partner with Apple in a project that allows us to share the intellectual and cultural life of the university with our alumni. We are especially pleased that the project's focus is to deliver substantive content that so clearly supports the university's mission of teaching, learning and research both in the classroom and to our thousands of alumni around the world."

Statistics on the number of users aren't available, but Stanford is pleased with the response so far. If the program proves successful, it's likely that other schools will attempt similar programs. The Stanford on iTunes model would work well for other Universities, distance learning programs, collaborative K-12 programs, and home schooling.

Stanford isn't the first University to offer recordings of lectures to students through Apple technologies. Duke and Brown Universities both instituted programs where they provided iPods to students as study aids. Stanford, however, is the first to offer an iTunes based system that lets users easily download programming.

As the Stanford on iTunes program grows, watch for other schools to jump on board and follow in Stanford's footsteps: Drawing communities together through the free exchange of knowledge.

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Close Name:Biff Posts: 1479 Joined: 08 Apr 2004
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Maybe they got slashdotted.

Close Name:Al Swearengen Posts: 339 Joined: 10 May 2005
Subject: I am downloading now

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Am I the only one who can't get any of the links to work? It seems Stanford.edu is down as well as the itunes link.


I had no trouble getting on and am downloading some tunes right now. Some nice stuff in a variety of genres Go to http://itunes.stanford.edu/

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