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By Rodger Nayak
| September 29, 2009
The University officially launched its own iTunes U channel last Tuesday, allowing professors, schools and departments to post their own content directly to Apple's web-based media application.
Professors can provide content exclusively to students in a particular class by linking the course's Collab site to iTunes or can choose to make content available to the general public by adding their courses to the University's public site, said Jonelle Kinback, assistant director of web communications in the Office of Public Affairs.
Mike McPherson, associate vice president and deputy chief information officer, said the site connects course material with students' lives in a way that few other media sources can.
"With the predominance of iPods and iPhones and iPod Touches as music and video players, making course materials available in a format that is very easily downloaded to the player that most people have is a win," he said.
A trial version of the channel launched last March, Kinback said, to allow departments and schools to get a feel for how to post content and what content was best suited for the site.
