Digital Audio Files of Lecture Recordings

Podcasts of EAS 361 Lectures during Fall 2006 have been removed from the server. Thanks for listening.

Before you download and listen to any podcasts you might want to read the article The Attack of the Pod People by Robert Schneider in December 8, 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Unfortunately the on-line version of the article requires a paid subscription (which I have). Schneider makes some good points and tries to come across as balanced throughout the bulk of the article. However, he shows his true disdain for the technology in his conclusion which reads (in part):

Podcasts of university courses are not "every student's dream"; they're totally bogus, a thin surrogate for real instruction, a fig leaf for disengagement, an excuse for lack of commitment from professors and students alike. People who believe in the transformative value of higher education will resist podcastification with a passion.

Let me say for the record, podcasts are not a substitute for lecture. However, podcasts seem like a good way to augment lecture and certainly provide students some flexibility in those cases where on occassion they miss a lecture. Students who rely on podcasts as a substitute for lecture are fooling themselves in the same way that students who turn in homework copied form their peers or from a purchased solution manual fool themselves into thinking they are doing the homework.