What are some things that people are doing with podcasts in education?
JDF: In my “whys” of podcasting, I list about five things. First is that people are podcasting their courses. That’s just a given. If you’re doing a podcast at a university, you’re going to either record the whole [lecture], or pieces and parts… Beyond that, if I look across podcasting… it comes back to the audience. My top five reasons for podcasting are for faculty, staff, students, development alumni, and–really the main reason–enrollment and recruiting. There are different reasons for podcasting. Faculty want to share information… For staff, the reason is usually training. That’s what a university does, it teaches. So what better way to disseminate information than to put it together in a podcast, so you don’t have to send people all at once to a seminar? Students, of course, are doing everything. They’re doing podcasts themselves and putting them out there. With development alumni, it’s raising money, connecting with alumni, making sure they know how they can get involved: that’
