iTunes U surpasses 1 billion downloads
Apple announced Thursday that its iTunes U educational service has now topped 1 billion content downloads since its launch in 2007.
The service preceded the recent interest in “massive open online courses.” It provides lectures and other content from top-shelf schools, museums, and other institutions—often for free—giving other educators the tools to create their own curricula for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users around the world.
The result? A lot of very impressive numbers.
More than 1200 colleges and universities host courses online, as do more than 1200 K-12 schools. More than 2500 public courses are offered, Apple says, and “thousands” more are available through private channels. Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT, and Oxford have each enrolled more than 100,000 students in an iTunes U course; Stanford University and The Open University have each seen their content downloaded more than 60 million times.
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