Berkeley on iTunes

This is exciting and amazing! iTunes Berkeley. While other universities have partnered with Apple to shelve their media course content, it seems like Berkeley is the first to make these available to a wider, global audience. To make course lectures available to the world seems to tip the balance of accessible education just a bit. And what will it do to attendance? I listened to one Computer Science course lecture in which the instructor collected attendance cards for extra credit. Might just be enough to keep students coming. Then again, maybe they don't need to be there... maybe there is something more important they could be doing. In the same lecture, the instructor points out that students have been skipping class since the Middle Ages and probably before. He goes on to work on redefining the lecture into a more socratic dialog. Makes me want to go to Berkeley!