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Online Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield

Thursday, September 22, 2005
Company offers lecture podcasting - Kate FitzGerald, Indiana Daily Student
Professors of large lecture courses at two Texas universities are trying out a system that would allow them to collect money from students who want the option of missing class without worry. Like some Purdue students this semester and some distance-learning students at IU, students at Texas A&M and the University of Texas at Austin are testing out a service in four classes that allows them to download audio recordings of large lecture courses as MP3s, according to a Sept. 14 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Unlike programs at Purdue and IU, however, this service commands a $5 per-lecture payment -- split between the professor and Pick-A-Prof, the Texas-based company spearheading the new venture

 



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