ITunes U
In May 2007, Apple announced the launch of iTunes U via the iTunes Store, which delivers university lectures from top U.S. colleges. With iTunes version 12.7 in August 2017, iTunes U collections became a part of the Podcasts app.
On 10 June 2020, Apple formally announced that iTunes U will be discontinued from the end of 2021
Archiving
There are three main branches of iTunes U which are:
- Beyond Campus
- K12
- University
Each has a list of institutions, each institution can have many courses. It is common for courses in the same institution to share files with other courses in the same institution.
URLs
- Get Institution with list of courses: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/DZR.woa/wa/viewArtist?id={INSTITUTION_ID}
- Get Course Data: https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/LZDirectory.woa/ra/directory/courses/{COURSE_GUID}/feed
The following URL can garner more meta details for organizing, this is the URL used by iTunes U app but requires you to subscribe to the course, then use the cookie to request and get the meta.
https://p1-u.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/LZStudent.woa/ra/feed/{COURSE_GUID}
User Agent
In some cases if you want to pull data from iTunes links you can set the following user agent in your request.
"user-agent", "iTunesU/3.8 iOS/13.3 model/iPad6,7 hwp/s8001 build/17C54 (5; dt:111) iTunesU/3.8"
Archiving Status
Example course uploaded to IA, the course is called "Addressing Learning Disabilities in the Inclusive Classroom" from "Alberta Teachers Association".
https://archive.org/details/addressing_learning_disabilities_in_the_inclusive_classroom
Each upload contains a meta file for the course, in this example. addressing_learning_disabilities_in_the_inclusive_classroom.json which contains all the meta for course description, file descriptions and course content.
Beyond Campus
All Beyond Campus has been uploaded to IA.
Beyond Campus has 85 institutions and is the smallest subset of the three, it has been fully archived as of 20/11/2020, total size roughly is 750GB.
This list will be updated when complete, for now you can view uploads here.
Institution | Archive Link |
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Academy of Achievement | Archive |
Alberta Teachers' Association | Archive |
Apple Distinguished Educators | Archive |
Art Gallery of New South Wales | Archive |
ASCD | Archive |
ASCO University | Archive |
AsLiCo - Opera Education | Archive |
Assembly of First Nations | Archive |
Australian National Maritime Museum | Archive |
Australian Science Teachers Association | Archive |
Australian War Memorial | Archive |
BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT | Archive |
Bibliothèque nationale de France | Archive |
British Film Institute | Archive |
Brookings Institution | Archive |
California Academy of Sciences | Archive |
CalStateTEACH | Archive |
Centro Nacional de las Artes | Archive |
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization | Archive |
Council of Chief State School Officers - CCSSO | Archive |
Cyber Safe Kids | Archive |
Department of Veterans' Affairs | Archive |
Distance Learning Information Technology(DLIT) | Archive |
E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation | Archive |
EBS | Archive |
Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Archive |
Europeana | Archive |
Fundación Mejor Planeta | Archive |
Fundacja Rozwoju Społeczeństwa Informacyjnego | Archive |
Georgia Governor's Office of Student Achievement | Archive |
Grand Palais - Réunion des Musées Nationaux | Archive |
Gruppo Italiano Frattura (IGF) | Archive |
Harvard University | Archive |
Historica Canada | Archive |
IDRV Institute of Design Research Vienna | Archive |
iKeepSafe | Archive |
Illinois Vision 2020 | Archive |
Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy | Archive |
International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific | Archive |
International Spy Museum | Archive |
iSchool Africa | Archive |
ISMOTION | Archive |
KQED | Archive |
Law Society of Ireland | Archive |
La Cinémathèque de Toulouse | Archive |
LEGO® Education | Archive |
Library and Archives Canada | Archive |
LSO Discovery | Archive |
MaRS Discovery District | Archive |
MoneyMuseum | Archive |
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao | Archive |
Museo Tamayo | Archive |
Museum Sydøstdanmark | Archive |
NASA Academy of ProgramProject and Engineering Leadership | Archive |
National Archives and Records Administration | Archive |
National Humanities Center | Archive |
National Library of New Zealand | Archive |
National Theatre | Archive |
Nobel Biocare | Archive |
Ohio Department Of Youth Services | Archive |
Olimpiada Artystyczna | Archive |
Ontario Science Centre | Archive |
PBS NewsHour | Archive |
Polar Bears International | Archive |
Research Institute For Humanity And Nature (総合地球環境学研究所) | Archive |
RiAus – Australia’s Science Channel | Archive |
Royal Ontario Museum | Archive |
Signum University | Archive |
Smithsonian Institution | Archive |
Smithsonian Libraries | Archive |
Southern Regional Education Board | Archive |
Stiftung Entrepreneurship | Archive |
Sätraskolan Stockholms Stad | Archive |
The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language | Archive |
The Aspen Ideas Festival | Archive |
The New Media Consortium | Archive |
The Ohio Academy of Science | Archive |
The Saylor Foundation | Archive |
UNESCO | Archive |
United Cerebral Palsy | Archive |
一般社団法人デジタル表現研究会 | Archive |
Universities
Uploading In Progress
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22university%22&and%5b%5d=subject%3A%22itunes-u%22