In the wake of Apple’s education event everyone is talking about the implications of the new technological possibilities for the future of learning. Yet, the revolutionary developments outside of Apple’s world of strangling license agreements and shiny but expensive hardware are generally overlooked. iTunes U is only a relatively limited extension of what has been around for about a decade now: open content. Even after the update Apple’s offerings are neither interactive, nor social. Open education thought-leader David Wiley, however, was right when he pointed out: ”If you didn’t need human interaction and someone to answer your questions, then the library would never have evolved into the university.”

Hannes Klöpper, co-founder of iversity.org