Apple's bold plan to remake public education by using the iPad and eBooks instead of textbooks, and some slick apps for school teachers and authors

1. iPad Mac iPod touch and iPhone iTunes U Profiles Resources
If you’re an educator at a university, college, or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and
distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. And students and lifelong
learners can experience your courses for free through a powerful new app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod
touch.
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2. An entire course in one app.
The free iTunes U app gives students access to all the materials for your course in iTunes U app
a single place. Right in the app, they can play video or audio lectures. Read books
and view presentations. See a list of all the assignments for the course and check Download now
them off as they’re completed. And when you send a message or create a new
assignment, students receive a push notification with the new information. 1
Learn more about the new iTunes U app
Everything works together.
The iTunes U app integrates with iBooks, iCloud, and other apps to make it easy for students to keep up with your
course. For example, new iBooks textbooks 2 and other books for the course are available right from the app,
where students can tap them to start reading the assigned chapter. Notes taken in iBooks are consolidated for
easy reviewing in the iTunes U app. If an assignment includes watching part of a video, one tap goes straight to a
specific spot in the video. And iTunes U keeps documents, notes, highlights, and bookmarks up to date across
multiple devices.
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3. Building a course is easy. iTunes U Course
To create a course, simply gather all the materials you need Materials
and follow the easy step-by-step instructions in the iTunes U Audio and video
Course Manager — a web-based tool accessible from a
browser. Courses can include a syllabus, handouts, quizzes, Presentations
and other items. All of the course materials that you upload will
Documents
be hosted by Apple and available to anyone taking your
course. You can pull content and links from the Internet, PDFs
iBookstore, App Store, and iTunes Store. Or you can gather
material from among the 500,000-plus resources at iTunes U, iBooks textbooks for iPad
including audio and video content from museums, universities, ePub books
cultural institutions, and more. Once the course is ready, it’s a
snap to distribute it to anyone who’s interested in the topic — iOS apps
whether in your class or anywhere in the world. Web links
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4. Share your content with anyone. Anywhere in the world.
When you create and distribute a course on iTunes U, you’ll join a large and growing community of schools and
institutions that are sharing their content with students and lifelong learners all over the world. iTunes U includes
Stanford, Yale, Oxford, and UC Berkeley , along with other distinguished institutions such as MoMA, New York
Public Library, and more. Students can use iTunes on their computer or the iTunes U app on their iPad, iPhone, or
iPod touch to browse and download over 500,000 free lectures, videos, books, and other resources on
thousands of subjects.
Get started with iTunes U.
K-12 school districts, universities, and colleges in 26 countries can create and
distribute courses on iTunes U. To get started, build your team and decide which
content you’ll distribute.
Sign up
Questions? Visit the iTunes U support site and read our guidelines:
iTunes U Public Site Manager Guidelines
Course Creation Guidelines
Marketing Your iTunes U Site
Apple Education Pricing Volume Purchase Program
College students and parents buying for a The Apple Volume Purchase Program allows
college student, as well as K-12 and higher educational institutions to purchase iOS apps
education faculty and staff, are eligible for special and books in volume and distribute them to their
pricing on Mac and more. users.
Learn more Learn more
1. An iTunes Store account is required to access iTunes U course materials. Create an iTunes account.
2. iBooks textbooks are readable only on iPad.
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