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A podcast is free audio or video content which is delivered to its subscribers automatically and can be listened to at the listener’s convenience. Many listeners choose to have this content automatically added to their iPod/iPhone/iPad, which is where the name originated, but any Mac or Windows computer with speakers is all that is really needed. Apple's music player and music store, iTunes is credited as catalyzing podcastings staggering growth and adoption achieved largely through ubiquity and ease of use that has thus for not been the norm on the internet.

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About Brock University on iTunes U

Student Development Centre consultation while reviewing a podcast

You can access Brock University on iTunes U at: https://www.library.brocku.ca/itunesu/index.php

Through Brock's iTunes U presence, podcasts can be distributed publicly and semi-privately to authenticated members of the Brock University. This tool provides the necessary storage and bandwidth for large scale distribution of video and audio content as well as an interface to allow instructors, staff, and maybe students to distribute content directly without having to go through any form of gate-keeping.

Brock University makes use of Apple's iTunesU service which Apple makes available to universities for free. This service has recently forked into a Private iTunes U and a Public iTunes U.

General information about iTunes U can be found at http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu/ and more detailed technical information can be found at: http://www.apple.com/support/itunes_u/ including the web-based administration guide: http://deimos.apple.com/rsrc/doc/iTunesUAdministratorsGuide/

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An article about iTunes U coming to Brock appeared in the March 12th issue of Brock News.

You can follow our progress at our Brock iTunesU Blog.
Read our Implementation Process to learn more about how Brock University entered iTunes U
For more information you may want to contact the CTLET