{"id":238,"date":"2005-08-29T17:54:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T21:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=238"},"modified":"2005-08-29T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2005-08-29T21:54:55","slug":"purdue-does-podcasting-in-a-very-big-way-with-boilercasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/purdue-does-podcasting-in-a-very-big-way-with-boilercasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue does podcasting in a Very Big Way with BoilerCasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013\/Boilercast\/Index.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-images\/boilercastlogo.jpg?w=584\" alt='Boilercast Logo' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning this fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\">Purdue University<\/a> will be offering a podcasting service called <a href=\"http:\/\/boilercast.itap.purdue.edu:1013\/Boilercast\/Whatisboilercast.htm\">&#8220;BoilerCast&#8221;<\/a> to faculty who would like their classes recorded and made available to students as RSS-enabled audio feeds for downloading, streaming, or podcasting. The service, furnished by Purdue&#8217;s Information Technology department, promises &#8220;no lead time&#8221; scheduling for professors teaching in classrooms that are already set up to record audio. Other classrooms can be accommodated &#8220;with sufficient notice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BoilerCast subscription list is pretty spiffy-looking and already includes over 40 courses, plus a self-guided audio tour of the library. (I wonder: will that tour change over the course of a semester? is an RSS feed needed here?) The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.uns.purdue.edu\/UNS\/html4ever\/2005\/050825.Gay.boilercast.html\">BoilerCast press release<\/a> is most enthusiastic, right down to its Peter Piper alliteration and its very reasonable answer to the predictable question of &#8220;won&#8217;t this encourage students to skip class?&#8221; Other predictable questions were not addressed in the press release, however. Do students need to sign releases if there&#8217;s a Q&amp;A session as part of the class? What about classes that are not primarily lecture-based? Is anyone worried that an entire set of class lectures would amount to a free course for auditors (in the truest sense of the word)? I know how I&#8217;d answer those questions; I&#8217;m curious about how Purdue would, or has.<\/p>\n<p>All of that said, I think BoilerCast is a great idea. Our own &#8220;Profcast&#8221; project here is less comprehensive and aimed more at the general podcast audience, but both ideas strike me as valid ways to present education as a public good.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastingnews.com\/\">Podcasting News<\/a> for the initial story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning this fall, Purdue University will be offering a podcasting service called &#8220;BoilerCast&#8221; to faculty who would like their classes recorded and made available to students as RSS-enabled audio feeds for downloading, streaming, or podcasting. The service, furnished by Purdue&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/purdue-does-podcasting-in-a-very-big-way-with-boilercasts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}