ITunes U Maintenance

Question

Hello,
As per the email sent to site administrators, on Thursday, Feb 12 , between 9:00 pm PT and 11:00 pm PT, the iTunes U service will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
The iTunes U team

Answer 1

Interesting questions! Here are my answers. I am kind of curious to see how others answer.
1. So far as I know, no, our campus has not invested more funds into iTunes U per se. I just got handed the project and was asked to make it happen. I would say that, depending on your particular situation, it might be worthwhile throwing some some investment funds into iTunes U ... especially if your IT group is small. We're big, so it was easy to glom iTunes U into what we're doing already.
2. I spend about an hour or two each week dealing with site issues. However, I spend a considerable amount of time working on tools that I think will help others. Mostly this work is done offline ... but now there is some recognition by my superiors (I "think" there is at least) that efforts directed at tools might be worthwhile even if the tools don't benefit us necessarily. I would say I've been given more freedom to work on stuff like Woolamaloo "at work" ... but it's a fine balance. But my official iTunes U duties are very light.
3. Academic Computing handles iTunes U at our site.
3. (sic) We have only a private site. The difficulty with a public site for us is finding faculty members willing to produce stuff that anyone can access. Everyone at our site is eager for us to go public, but no one is willing to step forward with that public content. Only now is there some hope that groups on campus want to do public things ... so a public site might be in our future.