1. 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

2. iTunes U for University

4. 22 March 2011

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

7. 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

8. What are iTunes U users thinking?

9. iTunes U Impact Survey N = 126

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

11. Open University iTunes U Site

13. 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 http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/microbiologybytes-enhanced/id177803088)

14. 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

15. Photo courtesy of Sigalakos on Flickr