In July 2005 iLecture Version 3.1 started to support podcasting, providing lecturers with even more options in how they can make their lecturing content available to students. This allowed the students even more flexibility and mobility in how they study.

Although the university was late adopting the podcasting, it has been offering ‘on-demand internet-transmitted lectures’ (or ODILs) lectures for playback. This is the reason it is relevant to this report, as it shows the trends of third level students listening back to there lecture material. This could be indicative of third level institutes that offer there lectures as podcasts.

Below are some of the statistics since Lectopia started in 98

lecture hits for lectopia

1999 UWA Statistics: 1,600 lectures recorded; 30,000 hits
2000 UWA Statistics: 3,100 lectures recorded; 80,000 hits
2001 UWA Statistics: 3,900 lectures recorded; 100,000 hits

2002 UWA Statistics: 5,200 lectures recorded; 150,000 hits

2003 UWA Statistics: 6,800 lectures recorded; 245,000 hits
2004 UWA Statistics: 7,000 lectures recorded; 265,000 hits
2005 UWA Statistics: 9,500 lectures recorded; 380,000 hits

What these figuress represents is that with each year of growth recording lectures it has been matched by downloads.

Also thanks to Ewan blog / is news that Kansas University are going offer 6,000 class podcasts

Now these wont necessarily mean good lectures but this defiantly opens up lectures from the four walls of the classroom. I think this will also challenge educators to update their knowledge /and there delivery of there content

This cant be a bad thing for the students!!!