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Actually, I believe all OCW courses are available via YouTube, or for download at http://ocw.mit.edu as MP4.

Stanford's SEE course are available via YouTube, download, and bittorent.

I like watching them on my iPad off the grid. So having them in iTune-U is nice.

Cool. There are other Uni's that do not provide other options however.

This is available outside of iTunes on YouTube (I think). I understand your reasoning, but as I do have iTunes it makes a very nice, seamless way of subscribing to their content, which can then be shared across my various devices (iphone / iPad etc). I even have a projector in my lounge attached to a Mac Mini that I've started using for this rather than just for movies

All of the OCW courses are available on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/courses/Academics.html. (Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Udemy)

If I'm not wrong, we have the largest library of OCW courses on the internet (equivalent to YouTube's).

You can also find them here: http://nixty.com/courses/directory?category=0&school=1&#...