Podcasting

Comprehensive study finds that students overwhelmingly prefer having their lectures available online, either for remote access or for later viewing.

Books reviewed in this section include topics on security metrics and an educators podcasting guide.

Many college students today are comfortable communicating through digital media. Simultaneously, faculty members are increasingly cognizant of the pedagogical benefits of digital technologies. This presentation will explore whether Apple's iTunes U can provide an effective way for faculty and students to produce, store, access, and distribute digital content. We will describe how faculty from the music, foreign languages, and economics departments collaborated with the Educational Technology Center to pilot iTunesU. Can this "cool" technology meet our institution's digital needs, or will this content-hungry application turn us into Looney Tunes U?

Podcasts solve some leaner-centered problems typical of adult learners. We will describe how we designed several types of podcasts to deliver portable audio and video content to aid nursing students in learning procedural and conceptual knowledge using mobile devices as well as in more static contexts.

Apple's free iTunes U service offers a powerful way to distribute audio and video content to users on campus and beyond. The three University of Illinois campuses have deployed iTunes U and are using it today. We'll share the strategies they used for technical set-up, site organization, content production, and workflow.

GSLIScast is a podcasting service implemented by Simmons GSLIS. Funded by a university grant, the service is now regularly posting lectures and other educational events. This session will present a case study of the implementation of GSLIScast. It will provide a checklist for bringing up podcasting services in higher education, discuss policies with examples, and present solutions to common problems.

WordPress, an open source content management platform, can be used to implement Web 2.0 learning initiatives without the need for a team of programmers. We will demonstrate how Yale is using WordPress for collaborative script analysis, audience driven theater events, and courses where students contribute images and podcasts.