UDC 141.2: 37.013.73 +372.881.1
STRASHKO I.V.
Senior Lecturer, Chair of Romance and Germanic Philology
National Pedagogical Dragomanov University
(Kyiv, Ukraine) E-mail: iryna.strashko@gmail.com

PHILOSOPHICAL AND EDUCATIONAL ORIENTATION OF iTUNES
UNIVERSITY AS A POSSIBILITY OF SATISFYING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
FOR EDUCATION
The potential of іTunes University as a tool that allows every individual to realize personal
needs for education, self-education, and self-fulfillment is analyzed in the paper. The valuable
aspects of iTunes U application include epistemological, educational, creative opportunities;
openness, diversity, and heterogeneity; multifunctionality and interactivity. The author underlines
that effective practical use of iTunes U in national realities should include the development and
implementation of the strategy based on existing international experience, its adaptation to the
specific goals and objectives of teaching and learning.
Keywords: iTunes University, podcast, educational potential, global learning process, selfeducation,
self-fulfillment, language education
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UNIVERSITY AS A POSSIBILITY OF SATISFYING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
FOR EDUCATION
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