Apple: iTunes U App Is Now Even Better

The fruity company headquartered at 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California, has issued a reminder to students about the updated iTunes U app. If you’re going to college this fall, check out all the neat stuff in the free iTunes U 1.2 app.

Via Inside iTunes, Apple calls out to students looking to gain access to the largest online catalog of free educational content.

In this day and age, you can do it on your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, and you can choose from over 500,000 lectures, videos, books, “and other resources on thousands of subjects from Algebra to Zoology from education and cultural institutions in 26 countries”

Names like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, UC Berkeley, MoMA, the New York Public Library are dished out, as well as the Library of Congress, to give students an idea of the sea of content available through iTunes U.

Not all of the content is free, though, but much of it is.

Version 1.2 now lets you take notes while playing video and / or audio content. Notes will automatically remember where you were in case you pick up on something else to do, and the playback speed can be changed now.

Students can now search all the courses in their library by swiping down to reveal the Search icon. Notes can be shared with friends using Twitter, Mail, Messages, and Printing via the Share button. The same goes for the latest course discoveries.

iTunes U supports a flurry of languages, including English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 5.0 or later. Expect more enhancements when iOS 6 rolls out this fall.

Download iTunes U for iPhone and iPad (Free)