La Trobe academic gets iTunes U plug A La Trobe classics academic has been named by Apples iTunes U among its top 20 "leading university instructors" based on the popularity of courses, alongside academics from some big lights like Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Caltech. Lecturer Rhiannon Evans has designed and coordinated La Trobes "The Roman World" subject that in the second semester of last year had more than 100,000 people sign up and generated 1.4 million downloads on the platform.