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Update: Version 5   June 2008    view earlier versions

Apple has now added universities in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia to the iTunes U list of schools now offering content. iTunes U now has more than 60 colleges around the world (mostly in North America) plus other types of educational institutions sharing audio & video through the iTunes U portal.
Since Apple launched the version of the iTunes Music Store with an iTunes U link and listed the original 16 colleges last year (NJIT was one of the initial 16 schools), schools have been slower to join the list.Perhaps that was why they opened up the iTunes U area to "educational" organizations that are not universities this year. You can find those offerings in the "Beyond Campus" area including the NY Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and others.
The updated, unofficial, incomplete list below is of schools that have partnered with Apple, Inc. to use iTunes U.
If you know of another school that has a public presence on iTunes U, please add a link with a comment at the bottom of this entry and I'll add it to the list.

NOTE: These are public sites, not those schools that have podcasts available in the iTunes Music Store, but only as password-protected content for their own students.

To open these sites requires the free iTunes software which allows you free access to play or download content. Apple has a simple video on the basics of using iTunes for podcasts.

1. NJIT on iTunes U information & launch page or open NJIT directly in iTunes
2. Bowdoin College
3. Penn State on iTunes U
4. Stanford on iTunes U
5. Duke University's Fuqua School of Business
6. Harvard Extension School
7. University of California at Berkeley
8. Sacramento State
9. Arizona State University
10. Texas A&M
11. Ross School of Business at U of Michigan
12. Santa Monica College
13. University of California at Berkeley
14. Queens University (Canada)
15. Wellesley College
16. Georgia College and State University
17. Rollins College
18. Radford College
19. Gordon College
20. Lafayette College
21. Virginia Tech
22. Guilford Tech Community College
23. Concordia Seminary
24. Otis College of Art & Design
25. College of William & Mary
26. Villanova University
27. Florida Tech
28. Ohlone College
29. Texas Tech
30. Wilkes University
31. Seattle Pacific University
32. Abilene Christian University
33. Reformed Theological Seminary
34. Southwestern College
35. University of Michigan
36. Vanderbilt University
37. New Mexico State University
38. Agnes Scott College
39. Aquinas Institute of Theology
40. East Tennessee State University
41. University of California - Davis
42. University of Washington
43. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
44. Clemson
45. School of the Visual Arts (NY)
46. Griffith University
47. The Australian National University
48. The University of Western Australia
49. UCL - London's Global University
50. Trinity College - Dublin
51. University of Melbourne
52. University of Otago
53. University of New South Wales - Sydney
54. The Open University - UK
55. Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne
56. American Military University
57. Miami Dade College
58. Michigan Tech
59. Central Washington University
60. Loyola Marymount University
61. New York Law School
62. Rock Valley College
63. University of Houston

This list was first posted in January 2007 when I worked at NJIT and we launched NJIT on iTunes. Though I am no longer at NJIT or involved in iTunes U, I try to keep up on schools that offer a public face in iTunes U both to see what they are offering and to download materials. Although a lot of content is specific to a school (admissions, sports etc.), there are also public course materials and speakers that have a much broader appeal and real educational value. Free the knowledge!