As you may have noticed, Apple’s iTunesU now includes an area called “Beyond Campus,” which features a wide range of audio and video materials from sources not necessarily tied to colleges and universities, such as American Public Media, The New York Public Library, PBS, 92nd Street Y, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Science Digital Library, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Smithsonian Global Sound. Like all of iTunes U, Beyond Campus is free, easy to use, and accessible via any Mac or PC.

Today our friends at Open Culture posted an article highlighting Beyond Campus’ ResearchChannel. Housed at the University of Washington, the ResearchChannel brings together content from leading research and academic institutions and then distributes it to consumers mostly through satellite and cable but also via the web—iTunesU and YouTube.

The ResearchChannel may prove to be quite a handy resource for supplemental teaching and learning material, offering insightful programs such as “Dark Energy, or Worse: Was Einstein Wrong?”; “Bioenergy and Biofuels: An Overview”; “The Psychology of Blink: Understanding How the Mind Works Unconsciously”; “The Teen Brain” and “Mesopotamia to Iraq: Perspectives on the Middle East.”

If you’re interested in reading more about The ResearchChannel, be sure to check out oculture’s full article.