iTunes is a digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod and other digital media players such as the iPhoneand iPad. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows,, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, feature length films and movie rentals.
Itunes has helped AUC in branching out to the world by introducing their lectures to download online for free, they are also made in the form of podcasts, which are easier to handle.
Podcasts are a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication. This is useful because it allows each new episode to be downloaded automatically through synchronization, rather than having to download each one on its own. They update themselves automatically and regularly.
Students believe this to be a good way for them to listen to the lectures that they have missed. It is also a very useful way to have the AUC material accessible for free to all citizens of the world, therefore strenghtening the relationship between AUC and the outside world.
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