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iTunes U
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The University of Oxford on iTunes U
October 2012 marked the fourth anniversary of the launch of Oxford’s iTunes U site and it has had more than 20 million downloads so far.
Key facts since launch:
- 19 million downloads from iTunes U
- 4,200 podcast items processed
- 3,480 academic speakers and contributors
- a worldwide audience of 185 countries (including 31% from the USA, 17% from the UK and 7% from China)
- mobile users account for 15% of our downloads, with most of those coming direct from Apple iOS devices (iPad 8%, iPhone 5% - of all downloads)
Recent highlights in Autumn 2012 include:
- From Bench to Bedside : 50 talks on Translational Medicine
- Oxford Alumni Conference 2012 - over 20 talks from the best of Oxford
- Alan Turing : A Centenary Conference on the famous mathematician
- Engage - Social Media for Dissemination and Public Engagement with Marcus Du Sautoy and colleagues
- The Chemistry of the Botanic Garden
- First World War: New Perspectives
- Children's Language and Literacy and Impairments
- Great Writers Inspire - Over 30 short talks on famous writers
Shakespeare's entire First Folio, including original spelling, is being made available to download for free, as Oxford University becomes one of the world’s first universities to add ePubs to iTunes U:
- Shakespeare's first folio of 36 plays, ePubs to accompany Oxford’s 'Approaching Shakespeare' lectures
- ePubs to accompany our 'Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular theatre' lectures
If you have iTunes on your computer already click here to visit Oxford's site
What if I do not have iTunes on my computer?
If you do not want to install iTunes or are not running Windows or Mac OS you can also access all of our podcasts through any web browser.
Get podcasts from podcasts.ox.ac.uk
Awards
- Winner: Oxford's iTunes U site won the Websites category in the Association of Commonwealth Universities' PR, Marketing and Communications Awards 2008. Find out more about the ACU Awards.
- Shortlisted: for both the Outstanding ICT Team and Outstanding ICT Initiative categories in the 2009 Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards. Find out more about the THE Awards.
Background
On 7 October 2008 the University of Oxford launched its podcast site on iTunes U. In the first week there were 168,000 visitors to the site and 60,000 downloads.
By August 2009 there had been over 1 million downloads from the site.
This free site features public lectures, teaching material, interviews with leading academics, information about applying to the University, and much more.
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