Podcasting is a method by which faculty members can publish files to the Internet, allowing students to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription. Although files were originally audio-only they can now contain images or video.

Podcasts can deliver educational content for listening or viewing on a computer and iPod, freeing learning from constraints of the physical classroom.

A podcast’s content can be anything conveyed by an audio or video file: a recorded lecture, a foreign language lesson, a demonstration of biology principles. Instructors can easily create a podcast of daily assignments and lectures from class, and publish it for all of their students. Students can likewise create and publish content and deliver it to their teachers or to other students.

The wide range of educational content being developed for and delivered by podcasting includes not only curriculum-related presentations, but also professional development communities in which educators distribute content and best practices between members.


For Assistance with Podcasting: Contact your Instructional Technology Analyst.