Students using the lectures as podcasts perform better in tests than those who appear in the lectures themselves - inform "New Scientist". Records through University allows students to repeatedly play the difficult parts of the course and take better notes - Dani McKinney says the State University of New York in Fredonii who headed the research. - What matters is how you have a podcast - he says. As part of iTunes University lectures are available on almost any subject-from the French literature on the physics of elementary particles.

Some universities make available all records, others - only to its own students. There are even professors who have limited number of podcasts loaded for the sake of attendance at lectures.

However, according to Professor. Darren Griffin of the University of Kent at Canterbury, the use of iPods is also beneficial for the teachers, who are thus more time for dialogue with students, instead of just talking to them. At his lectures enriched quizzes turnout reaches 98 percent.