Education Podcast Sampler

Ask the Techies

Ohio University produces a nice video podcast called Ask the Techies covering common questions and issues with the uses of computers and consumer technology such as this one using the iPod as an educational tool.

George Siemens and Jay Cross

Here is a podcast of a conversation between Jay Cross and George Siemens that took place leading up to the  Online Educa Berlin conference in late November of 2006. Both are advocates of informal learning -- Jay in the corporate world and George in education--  and they talk about how they will be engaged in informal learning at the conference. George will be the keynote at the upcoming ODCE conference where will be encouraging informal learning with a wiki , blog and social bookmarks.

I wonder, to what degree to we nurture informal learning in higher education? How do you benefit, and how have you seen your students benefit, from informal learning? Do you design for it as you design for formal learning in the space defined as "the course?"

Rich

Podcasting to hit "inflection point" in 07?

Dan Colman, the lead editor of Oculture.com and  Associate Dean & Director of Stanford's Continuing Studies Program was recently interviewed on America Public Radio's Future Tense about the open courseware movement and its growth through the medium of podcasting.

On his blog he summarizes the recent Pew Center study that suggests podcasting may -- depending on how you interpret the numbers -- not be as pervasively adopted as believed. Still, he suggests that "Somewhere in '07, [educational podcasting] should hit an inflection point. Supply will increase demand. Demand will trigger more supply. We'll see exponential growth and never look back."