Lecture notes as podcasts

October 10th, 2005

There’s an interesting article on the Daily Texan that discusses podcasting class lectures.

This is something that I’ve been curious about since I started school. I’ve seen people bring iPods into lecture and record the audio with one of those Belkin voice recorders. I’d love to get my hands on those mp3 recordings — especially with a few midterms coming up — but getting other students to share them is a pain in the ass. Having a way for the university to distribute them would be much easier.

Turns out, the university set up a pilot program based on Duke University’s approach.

Blackboard site may offer free lectures to download

A very interesting question of ownership, but I honestly can’t see what the big deal is. Something tells me that out of the 25% of students that downloaded the lecture, fewer than 10% will actually listen to the whole damn thing.

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