# University lectures on iTunes

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Last week the BBC reported that the University College London, the Open University and Trinity College Dublin are putting [lectures onto 'iTunes U'](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7431918.stm). Course material on iTunes isn't new and in March Brain Kelly (UK Web Focus) highlighted that one of the UKs ['Top of the Pods, Podpickers'](http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/top-of-the-pods-podpickers/) was the University of Bath whose podcasts were *"popular enough to get us featured in the top 50 podcast originator on i-Tunes in the “Science and Medicine” section, ahead of any other university in the world."*There is a very good article in the Times Higher Education which touches on the pros and cons of podcasts asking the question are[ 'Podcasts set to know lectures off the podium'](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=310896&sectioncode=26).