Through a partnership with Apple Inc., ASU has established an innovative platform to facilitate ASU podcast production and delivery. Our primary efforts involve developing ASU at iTunes U, where ASU podcast content will be stored and distributed using the iTunes U infrastructure.

ASU on iTunes U is both a repository and support mechanism for ASU podcasting efforts--assembled together into a single, easy to access location. This will enhance individual programming, and will work to generate exposure to individual programs that will benefit from being listed as part of a larger collective, maximizing and leveraging ASU content in conjunction with Apple and iTunes U. ASU iTunes U will utilize ASU’s authentification system and Apple’s repository of educational podcasts, blended into a unified cohesive space.

Podcasting has emerged as a viable means of developing and distributing instructionally sound programming that may facilitate on-line education and/or enhance blended classroom experiences. The ASU Applied Learning Technologies Institute (alt^I) has been actively engaged in exploring this new media space for some time, particularly as it relates to sound instruction facilitated by technology. We are encouraged about the possibilities that will certainly emerge as podcasting continues to be utilized in various applications throughout the ASU community, and we look forward to working with faculty, researchers, and other departments to continue and further develop research in these new media and approaches, and to help drive and guide their use and refinement in higher education.