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Impact

(updated 25th November 2013)

These statistics relate to the 2,002 days (286 weeks) since our launch into iTunes U on 3rd June 2008. In that time we have had:

  • 65,138,000 downloads
  • over 9,015,700 visitors downloaded files
  • Currently averaging*87,500 downloads a week
  • 87.5% of visitors from outside the United Kingdom (based on last 180 days of traffic)
  • 449 collections containing 3,485 tracks (1,638 audio, 1,847 video)
    320 of the collections contain audio visual material taken from 186 courses
    129 of the collections contain non-course specific material
    98.1% of the tracks have transcripts (in PDF format)
  • 423 OpenLearn study units as eBooks (ePub), representing over 5,000 hours of study
  • 79 iTunes U Courses
  • Currently delivering an average* of 0.3 TB of data a week, with a further estimate of 1-2 TB delivered via Akamai, based on historical data before the use of Akamai

* average is based on last 4 weeks traffic

Chart 1 - Cumulative downloads and unique ips over time

Chart 1 – Cumulative downloads and unique ips over time

Chart 2 - Geographical breakdown of downloads

Chart 2 – Geographical breakdown of downloads

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