With the news that Cambridge and Oxford have joined in, I thought it was time to bring attention to iTunesU for anyone who hasn’t heard of it before now. Basically, colleges and universities have started joining in with Apple to podcast audio and video of lectures, as well as information about their schools for potential students, etc. Some universities have been doing things like this through their own websites, but having them all under one umbrella at iTunes is pretty useful.
I haven’t had a chance to check for any Tudor history specific lectures yet, so if anyone finds some please post them in the comments. I downloaded the 50 minute “Monarchy” lecture by David Starkey (over 400MB!) from Cambridge but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet.
Thanks for that link! I had no idea it even existed!
University of Nottingham has been doing this for a while. One of the early adopters I think. The history department though has been slow to join in…
I listen to the Berkeley lectures while I work. Sometimes I feel like I am right there. A few time, I have even had a moment of panic when the lecturer says things like, “quiz next week.” It takes me a moment to realize that I don’t have to really take the quiz. heehee
My favorite so far is the European Civilization course taught by Margaret Lavinia Anderson. The other lecturers are good too, but she is my favorite so far.
Would you give me some of the links for these lectures…I’m having a hard time finding them
Thanks!
Analisa – The easiest way to start looking for the lectures is to go the iTunesU link I have in the post above and then click on “Go to iTunesU in the iTunes Store” on the right side of the page.
You can get to the Oxford and Cambridge listings directly by going to the links I have in the post, where they have links that will take you to their pages in iTunes (assuming you have iTunes on your computer).
Cambridge has a lecture by Adam Nicolson on the King James Bible; not a tudor, of course, but interesting. And funny.