By the way, I forget who it was who turned me, a fanatical iPhone user, on to iTunes U - but I wanted to give a shout-out.

The topic of the moment was my idea for making money by buying up all those “Teaching Company” courses that people either never listened to/watched or don’t want anymore and selling them for a sooper discount on a special website. Which I still think is a notion that could fly, if done right…

But anyway, someone pointed out all the utterly fantastic courses you can get for free now on iTunes, from places like Yale, Oxford, Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, and countless other, lesser known institutions (including many theological colleges that will teach me things like Biblical Hebrew for free with textbooks I already own).

Who was it? Obdicut? Dark Falcon? Anyway, a big halloo to you, whoever you were. You can set the iPhone/iTouch/iPad to subscribe to and download only the stuff you haven’t listened to or watched yet, to save space.

Currently in my lineup:

Dante in Translation (Yale)
Critical Reasoning (Oxford)
Ancient Greek History (Yale)
New Testament History (Yale)
Milton (Yale)
Nietzsche on Mind and Nature (Oxford)
The Historical Jesus (Stanford)
Structure of English Words (Stanford)
Tolkien at Oxford (Oxford)
Virgil’s Aeneid (Stanford)
The World in Words (PRI)

Gratias ago tibi!