Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods - PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U:
From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top [...]

The New York Times has an interesting profile of MIT’s Walter H. G. Lewin, 71, a physics professor that has a new generation of fans thanks to his video podcast.
Professor Lewin delivers his lectures with the panache of Julia Child bringing French cooking to amateurs and the zany theatricality of YouTube’s greatest hits. He is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]