Jump the break to view Apple’s press release on iTunes U for iOS. With the iTunes U app, students are able to access new books right from within the app, and any notes taken in iBooks® are consolidated for easy reviewing. Students anywhere can take an entire course with complete access to all course materials right at their fingertips. With the iTunes U app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, those barriers no longer exist. Over 100 courses have currently been created with the new iTunes U app from various universities and colleges across the US and further to that iTunes U is now available for K-12 institutions as well. In effect, it could be a great companion for any teacher or student. It’s fully featured with all the various video lectures, documents, apps and books available from within the app along with messages from teachers, the syllabus and even iBooks integration. Eddy CueĮffectively this new iTunes U app is similar to the various content management systems that are available for universities and other educational institutions. The all-new iTunes U app enables students anywhere to tap into entire courses from the world’s most prestigious universities. It’s a new app that lets teachers manage their iTunes U course and an app that helps students track all the content, assignments and messages from the courses that they study. iTunes U gives teachers the ability to customise their topics that they teach, give students information about office hours, post messages to their class and give students assignments.

Apple has just announced and released the iTunes U App for iPhone and iPad.

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