The University of NottinghamiTunes U Conference 2010

Andy Beggan, Head of Learning Technologyandy.beggan@nottingham.ac.ukOctober 14th, 2010

Est. 1948

“A City is Built on Wisdom”

3 international campuses

- UK, Nottingham

- China, Ningbo

- Malaysia, KL

Ranked 73rd worldwide

~ 40,000 students

~ 2000 academic teaching staff

About Nottingham

iTunes U statisticsPublic site only... so far

Launch 15th June 2010, live 19 weeks

103,397 previews

44,163 downloads

>9,000 unique visitors

67 albums with 309 tracks

14GB (700 GB capacity)

Project Management

Background: Podcasting @ NottinghamBegan November 2006

Aimed at External and Internal audiences

Portable recording kits with simplified upload workflows Over 300 staff users & around 2,500 podcasts to date

Growing demand for user generated content

Need to enhance discoverability

Links with JISC Steeple community as well as a visit from Apple :)

Why iTunes U?Open Nottingham & open learning agenda

Open access for all (our) students wherever they are based

“iTunes U provides a wonderful opportunity to make available--to a global audience--some of the resources our inspiring educators produce. I hope... it gives you a revealing insight into the international Nottingham experience.”

Professor David Greenaway, Vice-Chancellor

First stepsStart date 12th February 2010

Finding and collating archive content

Copyright issues and recorded lectures

UK based JISC legal advice

iTunes U Project Management Kit Designing the website

Launch June 15th 2010

Getting the right (enthusiastic) teamSenior level champion-PVC for Teaching and Learning

Support from Information Services SMT

Audio-Visual Media Development Officer

Internal Communications Officer

Graphic artist

Senior Systems Development Officer

Willing contributors....!

Making a splash!Launch event June 15th 2010

Opened by PVC for Teaching and Learning

100 attendees at event as well as live stream for China & Malaysia

Promoted under Open Nottingham

Website linked from homepage

University-wide promotion

...only the beginning!

Content Strategy

OrganisationJust Arrived; About Us; Subjects

Podcasts published weekly for a wide audience

1. Educational

2. News & documentaries

3. Quirkier side

Plan your collections ...but but be flexible where possible

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

1. EducationalRecorded lectures and traditional teaching content

Podcasts published weekly

1. Educational

2. News & documentaries

3. Quirkier side

Editorial board

2. News and documentariesNew discoveries, University news and activities

Podcasts published weekly

1. Educational

2. News & documentaries

3. Quirkier side

Editorial board

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

3. Quirkier sideFun educational content, to inform, entertain and inspire

1. Educational

2. News & documentaries

3. Quirkier side

Editorial board

QuickTime™ and a decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Finding content and keeping it goingBack catalogue Older content can often prove to be the more popular!

Recorded lectures Currently slow but growing up take (voluntary)

Communications and Marketing

Video production team

Editorial controls

Dedicated support requirements Open learning & Marketing and Comms

ImpactExplaining mathematics

http://explainingmaths.wordpress.com/

Pathology mini tutorials

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/pathology-mini-tutorials/id343794004

Wrap-up

Some practical tips from the team...

Ignore Atom as a syndication format

(Apple's documentation

notwithstanding) and concentrate on RSS...iTunes U

features still to come will make use of RSS more important. In the end, we support both formats but we only

use RSS.

Do not to underestimate the time it takes to upload the entire back catalogue of existing podcasts to the podcast server... it took me about two weeks of sitting up til 2 in the morning on average!

Have a clear plan to support the service into the future. Don't start if you don't intend to resource the

service on an ongoing basis. The work does not end after

launch. It increases with the profile of the service.

Thank you.

Q&A