Recently one of our esteemed iThinkEd contributors stumbled upon a serendipitous discovery as he downloaded ACU’s “behind the scenes” of the “Connected” video from iTunesU. After the download was complete, a folder containing the video appeared in the nave bar of iTunes called “ACU”.

This most recent update of iTunes U seems a perfect fit for university podcasts and the use of iTunes U in the classroom, as it appears to allow teachers and students to navigate quickly and conveniently through course material and resources stored in school-specific, easy access, automatically generated playlists. Best of all, it appears to allow various kinds of media formats to live together in one folder so users don’t have to dig through multiple playlists for their course materials. Cool!