Interesting Facts

The Open University's iTunes U service has broken the world record for number of downloads. (The service allows students to download free video and audio recordings of lectures, and reached 40 million downloads - with the increase driven by mobile devices such as iPads.  Figures from Apple suggest this puts the Open University ahead of rivals such as Stanford, Yale and even Oxford, but let's face it, these institutions are not best known for sharing.)

The iTunes U online service, which offers digital content created or curated by educators, which can then be easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone, now services 300 million downloads a year. (There are 350,000 lectures offered by more than 1,000 universities around the world.  And much of it is for free.)