Download Boston College from iTunes

The Heights reports that Boston College has bitten the iTunes bait, hook, line, and sinker. The plan by BC is for a roll out for fall 2007 classes in a campus-wide initiative to provide iTunes U services. Apparently this education will be podcasted. iTunes U will provide Boston College with a number of educational tools that will allow semi-tech savvy professors as well as students to share materials online using the iTunes store format – something Apple hopes most people are already familiar with, and if they're not Apple hopes this will convert a few more of them.

The idea is different from MIT's OpenCourseWare which provides the bulk of the content of an increasing number of MIT classes for free over the internet. Though we're not sure on the particulars, but it seems that the iTunes U store is actually limited to the students who are enrolled in the classes. According to The Heights "It can be especially helpful when remembering past information from a class that met infrequently. Live journals will also be available to provide such things as peer review and editing." Likely it will also be a good aid for those suffering from insomnia. Just load up that Accounting 101 lecture from last Friday and fall asleep to the sweet sounds of balance sheets and statements of financial position – wake up and remember that a revenue going up is a credit.