Stanford University has fueled the recent podcasting buzz in industry and higher education by offering over 400 unique audio programs online to their students, alumni, and the general public. They developed an application that allows them to manage content that loads in Apple's iTunes software.
This move should help to erase some of the fear of uploading classroom content, as Stanford is following in the steps of MIT and others by making their lectures, notable speeches, research, etc available to the world free of charge.
There has been a lot of discussion at APU in regard to podcasting, with a recent grant to Dr. Orlando Griego to develop a podcast for the School of Business and Management. Other schools and individuals will no doubt want to follow in his steps, and perhaps make additional forms of content available. AWG and IMT needs to be prepared to respond to such requests by evaluating the emerging technologies as they become more widespread, and by planning our infrastructure to accomodate anticipated future requests.
Stanford provides access to university content through iTunes
October 20 2005
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/october26/itunes-102605.html
The Sounds of Stanford, via the iPod
October 21 2005
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/21/itunes
