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Computers Education 67 (2013) 121–129 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Computers Education journal homepage: /locate/compedu Delivering unprecedented access to learning through podcasting as OER, but who’s listening? A profile of the external iTunes U user Fernando Rosell-Aguilar* Department of Languages, The Open University, Floor 1, Stuart Hall Building, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Little is known about the learners who download iTunes U resources but do not belong to the Higher Received 18 September 2012 Education institutions that provide them. This paper presents the first full profile of the external iTunes U Received in revised form learner and their practices and opinions of the materials they download. The data was gathered through 20 March 2013 a large survey (over 2000 responses) carried out over two years using the iTunes U site from The Open Accepted 24 March 2013 University. It shows that external iTunes U learners are very different from the internal users and practices described in the literature so far: there are more men than women, mostly middle-aged, and Keywords: they use the resources mostly for personal reasons. Despite the fact that respondents used the iTunes U Adult learning Distance education and telelearning site from a distance universit