What I’m thinking of is a way for instructors (and students?) to record and share their own resources. To me, the primary benefit of weblogs, wikis, and potentially podcasting, is to democratize the production and distribution of content – to give a voice to the individual rather than having to go through some form of Mass Media Outlet to get/publish content.

These are some pretty impressive Small Pieces Loosely Joined – and they might be pretty darned compelling if properly combined.

I agree about the wrestling with lectures, but that goes way beyond just the recording of audio. Most lectures aren’t learning experiences – the prof putting reams of overheads in front of a class is not teaching, and the students madly copying down those overheads aren’t learning – and there would be no value in recording that experience. I’d like to see face-to-face time become more collaborative and interactive, and if that happens, the session recording could become a valuable resource.

In my opinion Podcasting is a great tool:

• for distance learning
• to facilitate self-paced learning
• for re-mediation of slower learners
• to allow faculty to offer advanced and or highly motivated learners extra content
• for helping students with reading and/or other disabilities
• for multi-lingual education
• to provide the ability for educators to feature guest speakers from remote locations
• to allow guest speakers the ability to present once to many sections and classes
• to allow educators to escape the tedium of lecturing
• to offer a richer learning environment

edupodder.com and have the space available for use. I plan to do some research on the subject and would like to start my own feed.

~Steve Sloan