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Students from Oxford and Cambridge can listen to lectures online

Thu, 20 Nov 2008
Cambridge and Oxford University is set to make lectures available to its students and others online via Apple's iTunes software.

Oxford University is set to publish 150 hours of video and audio content from lectures and ideas from its world famous academics. Cambridge is set to upload works of its Nobel prize-winning academics to iTunes also.

Oxford and Cambridge are the latest in a line of universities to add free educational content in the forms of podcasts only. Podcasts are automatically downloaded, and are either free or can be paid for via a subscription charge.

A plethora of UK universities have added their content to the iTunes U education area, with University College London and the Open University having already done so.

An increasing number of universities are set to follow suit, offering free and paid for content to iTunes users. A reported 10 million people own or use Apple's iPhone mobile phone, which allows users to listen and watch podcasts on the go.