In my course, the podcast series mixes course-specific and more  
general contents. Also, the course podcast repeats older episodes  
from previous semesters.

Therefore, I decided to make one additional podcast series for new  
contents of more general interest. The idea was to provide it for  
previous students who might want to keep up with new developments,  
and also for other people who are interested in the subject that the  
course is about.

Moreover, I make one additional series for contents in english (most  
contents are in Swedish).

I don't know if it really adds a lot of value, but at least it is an  
attempt to make the contents less specific to the course context.

Regards
Jonas

24 jan 2007 kl. 17.38 skrev AJ Ramsden, Learning and Research  
Technology:

> Dear Toni,
>
> A quick question, any idea why the students wanted this? Were they  
> looking to find similar discipline related material to the topic  
> they are studying that is podcasted from different institutions?
>
> This dovetails with a conversations that we are having here, where  
> it is perceived that academic content tends to be so specific that  
> outside the context of the specific teaching and learning it is  
> meaningless. Hence it doesn't transfer very well and raises the  
> question, should we bother to develop / maintain a searchable  
> portal for our podcasted material - assuming we ever took the  
> plunge and went for a large scale implementation - or continue to  
> deploy at the individual course/organisation level through the VLEs
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy