NTNU becomes first Nordic university on iTunesU

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology has joined the University of Stavanger as the first Nordic universities to post lectures and talks on iTunesU for free download.

NTNU has posted roughly 90 lectures under the name “NTNU Open Courseware”. The lectures range from popular presentations to formal course lectures, the majority of which are in Norwegian. Among the English-language videos posted is an interview with the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever, a graduate of one of NTNU’s predecessors, NTH.

The NTNU lectures can be found at http://itunes.ntnu.no

iTunes U is an area of the iTunes Store where universities and colleges upload lectures, laboratory demonstrations and courses to share freely. Much of this content can be downloaded as podcasts.

iTunes U was launched in 2007. American universities such as Stanford, MIT and Yale were among the first to post material for download. European universities, including ScienceBusiness network member University College London, began posting to the site last year, but until this week no Nordic university had posted course material on the site.