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 [...]

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 [...]

Princeton is making audio recordings of public lecturesavailable in podcast form on its WebMedia site. The archive contains over 800 files dating back to 1998 and includes lectures by many prominent guests.
Streaming videos of campus events have been publicly available through the Princeton WebMedia website for years, but the University wants to “leverage the technology” [...]

College admissions testing concern ACT has recently debuted a podcast for high school students and their families.
The Prep Talk podcast section of the “ACT Student Blog” covers a variety of college planning topics. The latest podcast, about financial aid, features Cathy Wilcox, Senior Associate Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the University [...]

The Star-Telegram has an interesting article that looks at the growing use of podcasts for distance learning:
Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song.
“I do testing for offshore rigs,” said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar Land engineer [...]

RM has introduced Podium, a podcasting tool designed for educational institutions.
Podium is designed to allow students and teachers to communicate by creating enhanced podcasts, which incorporate audio, text and images. The tool, available for Windows-based systems, provides simple input fields for podcast and episode names, as well as credits. Images can be added to the [...]

The University of California at Berkeley is offering free podcasts of some the same courses that students pay full tuition for.
Students who are actually footing the bill for tuition at UC Berkeley need not panic just yet. It doesn’t appear that one can actually receive any college credit from these freely available versions of the [...]