Stanford University has decided to release content to the general public via the iTunes Music store. From the Stanford press release:
Today, the university will publicly debut a project called Stanford on iTunes, providing Stanford-related audio content via the iTunes Music Store, Apple's popular music jukebox and online music store. Stanford on iTunes will give alumni and the general public free access to a wide range of Stanford-specific digital audio content.
This is excellent. Many American educational institutions have gone down this path before (see, for example, Harvard@home), but this allows much easier access, and will probably result in greater mindshare, and hopefully a better educated public. We would suggest that video lectures are the next step, but unfortunately it's quite common that brilliant, brilliant academics are awful lecturers, so perhaps not.
Anyhow - plug right in: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
[via Arstechnica]
