Dayton, Ohio-based Wright State University is among the first schools to make available rooms dedicated to podcasting.
“We wanted to bring what’s up-to-date, fun and common for today’s students to the library here at Wright State,” says Sue Polanka, who is the head of references and instruction for the Dunbar Library. “Myself along with a few [...]

UNICEF has published the first in a series of podcast discussions on education in emergencies and post-crisis transition countries, with the participation of leading figures from the academic, development, media and humanitarian communities. Entitled ‘Beyond School Books’, the podcast series highlights the important role of education in countries affected by conflicts or natural disasters or [...]

The University of California, Berkeley, announced today that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube.
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from [...]

Some forty years after it first revolutionized children’s television programming, Sesame Workshop (the makers of public tv’s Sesame Street) has announced the launch of a video podcast series.
The short weekly episodes focus on a single “word on the street” (literally, a word chalked onto blacktop). The recent podcast about squid featured grown-ups and children talking [...]

An article at Campus Technology reports that the pedagogical value of podcasts depends almost entirely on student motivation and the learning “context” of the application.
“Podcasting does not contain any inherent value,” said researcher Ashley Deal. “It is only valuable inasmuch as it helps the instructor and students reach their educational goals, by facilitating thoughtful, engaging [...]

Apple today announced the launch of iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store, featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT.
With the introduction of iTunes U, Apple is largely [...]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles.
“This has never been done before,” said Al Filreis, [...]

Angel Learning, a developer/marketer of enterprise e-learning software, has announced that the latest version of their Learning Management System program has built-in podcast support.
Responding to strong interest in the educational community for podcasting, ANGEL 7.2 contains a native feature to support content syndication in all forms. Faculty simply create a “Content Syndication” folder and load [...]

Olympus is offering podcasting grants for schools to help promote awareness of its podcasting offerings. Apply for the grant, and your school could win software and the digital media accessories you need to start a podcasting program.
To apply, you need to develop a lesson plan demonstrating how you would use podcasting in your curriculum. The [...]

Here’s something that makes you realize that¬†there’s still room for¬†a tremendous amount of growth in podcasting; a high school in California is considering adding podcasting as¬†a new class in its curriculum.
Gary Bissell, a computer science teacher in Atascadero, Calif., is planning a new podcasting class. Bissell came up with the idea for the class, which [...]