Podcasting: Recording, managing, and delivering the classroom experience

What is it? Podcasting is part of the so-called Web 2.0 that depends on push technologies to deliver content. Push technologies is terminology used to define the process of collective technologies used to send out information to users, regardless of whether anyone is tuned in. The updating process is usually an unobtrusive one. With that in mind Podcast creators can have their content delivered to subscribers as soon as it becomes available, without the steps of typing an URL and subsequently downloading the information. Students can subscribe to podcasts and have the content delivered automatically to their device management software. This allows for the time-shifted delivery of content, much like TiVo for TV. Podcasting has revolutionized education and particularly higher education by enabling up-to-date content, addressing multiple intelligences and allowing for the anytime/anywhere delivery of instructional content. Podcast content can include but is not limited to audio and video recordings of lectures, incidental content (e.g. interviews, narrations) and generally any audio and video content. For example, Stanford University offers audio lecture content, but also offers videos of their sports activities. There have also been extensions that allow for the updating o