The participants that will offer their teaching and research free for download on iPods are Griffith University, Swinburne University of Technology, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the University of NSW, the University of Western Australia and Otago University.

Swinburne Digital Learning Initiative educational co-ordinator Lisa Germany said the university's initial offering included stereoscopic 3-D movies from its Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing and short films by its film and television school students. There are 300 educational institutions worldwide that already distribute free video and audio content via iTunes U.

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