Itunes University - The Unsung "I" Hero

Anything "i" these days is a winner whether it is Ipod, Iphone, Ipad or the new Ipad . The line of products from Apple has always been a winner and path breaking. 

Having said that , there is one product in the apple line up which i have come to use in the last year, its been a winner as far as am i concerned and what i like the most is not so much as its features but more its contents.

Am speaking about the unsung hero " The Itunes University" aka " Itunes U" 

The Itunes U is embedded within itunes and is part of the Apple's drive into education. 

It contains numerous educational material and in some cases full course lineups from some of of the worlds most premier institute, some of the ones i know of are listed below.

• Wharton Business School
• Yale University
• INSEAD Business School
• HEC Paris
• Oxbridge University ( Oxford & Cambridge are fondly called Oxbridge University)
• SDA BOCCONI

These are just a handful of universities which have a presence in Itunes U . Looking at the list of universities, they go from A-Z , starting with Aberdeen University to Zeppelin Universitat

If that is not enough , the course list is even larger, there are plethora of subjects covered in Itunes U , some of them are

• Business
• Engineering
• Fine Arts
• Mathematics
• Fine Arts
• Social Sciences
• Health & Medicine

The best part is most of these courses are free to download, for example i have downloaded the following courses 

• 2011 , Financial Markets Course - Yale University - by Prof Robert Shiller
• Moon An Introduction - Open University

This is just to name a few. These courses are actual courses thought at the university & the videos of these courses , their actual course curriculum along with term exams are loaded in Itunes U . 

Listening to a Ivy League professor without actually being on the programme is just such a pleasure. Of course not to miss, we can start, stop and listen to these lectures when ever we need . Isn't that cool!

Earlier this morning i saw a guest lecture by Stephen Schwarzmann founder of one of the most successful private equity firm " The Blackstone Group" .

There are a number of other course videos that i have downloaded for viewing later.

So far this year, i have put Itunes university to a good use and would recommend this to anyone.

All you need it access to Itunes - " Who These days doesn't have access to one" & you are ready to access the courses.

In my view , its blindingly obvious that its a good thing to disseminate knowledge one way or the other . I personally think it would make knowledge to flow easily and it is a good thing for the society.

Now if you ask me would this reduce poverty in this world ? Maybe not , but this could very well be a proof of concept for a much bigger thing that could be executed using Internet as the backbone which in the years to come might be a catalyst to reduce poverty.

Am sure most of you all would agree with that. 

Oh by the way there is a Itunes U app if you are interested . Hope you enjoyed this post. Have a great week ahead.