The Impact on Learning of iTunes U Open Educational Resources Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Fellow Beyond Distance Research Alliance University of Leicester 23 March, 2011

iTunes U for University

22 March 2011

Snapshot via Twitter 5 th – 10 th March 2011 “iTunesU” 101 tweets – 73 English – 28 non-English

Characterising iTunes U Tweets Category of TweetNumber Use iTunesU material to teach others 4 Use for oneself – just interested13 Use for oneself – learn something specific10 Technical discussion 7 Academic discussion15 General positive20 General positive – OER-related 3 Negative 1

What are iTunes U users thinking?

iTunes U Impact Survey N = 126

iTunes U Impact Survey 24.6% had already used educational material from iTunes or iTunes U

Open University iTunes U Site

University of Leicester Microbiology Bytes iTunes podcasts 164 episodes; each file downloaded average of 73x every month at peak (Courtesy of Dr Alan Cann, University of Leicester Department of Biology

Other Impact PhD student applications improve Hits on university website increase Multimedia OER Mobile OER Beyond Campus K-12 Photo courtesy of superkimbo on Flickr

Photo courtesy of Sigalakos on Flickr