If you love learning like you should, you’re going to love what Apple’s done for iTunes U. Now it’s not just a section in iTunes, it’s a great app for iPhone and iPad. So download iTunes U, find some interesting (science) classes and then, instead of doing homework, download a game or two.

Shortly after the Apple Education Event which took place in the New York City yesterday, Apple posted the entire 60-minute video on their own website. This hour-long video features Apple executives Phil-Schiller, Eddy Cue and Roger Rosner, who which took the stage to introduce the new iBooks 2 services.

Another major announcement today from Apple’s education-based media event is the release of iTunes U—formerly only an educational podcast section within the iTunes Store—as an official iOS app. According to Apple’s Eddy Cue, who made the announcement on behalf of the company, over 1,000 universities currently make use of iTunes U, which has seen over 700,000,000 total downloads since its launch.

Stanford University, which has quite the collection of free content available on iTunes U, will soon be beginning their iPhone Application Programming course. This course, which will cover Cocoa programming for the Mac as well as a plethora of other coding practices, will have the content and videos up a few days after each lecture.

A week before its much anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple has announced that iTunes U has expanded its coverage to Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK. This means that college and university students in those countries will soon find themselves using iTunes U’s platform for mobile learning to enable searching, downloading and playing of more »