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Many years ago in a galaxy far, far away Oxford University launched on ItunesU. Here’s the screenshot from BBC ceefax that night.<\/p>\n

Podcasts are Thing 14 of our<\/a> 23Things<\/a> and I am getting nostalgic again.<\/p>\n

Here’s a case study\u00a0 by Terese Bird<\/a> of how we approached podcasting at Oxford.<\/p>\n

And here’s the Oxford podcasts site (outside of ItunesU).<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m on there, here’s my podcasts and ebooks<\/a>. They include a recorded talk about my research on the student digital experience and 5 years of blog posts available as an ebook.<\/p>\n

In April this year I was delighted to welcome one of Oxford’s top podcasters, Dr Emma Smith to keynote at OER16<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I first met Emma around the time we were launching\u00a0 Oxford on ItunesU. She is a Fellow of Hertford College and\u00a0 Professor of Shakespeare Studies.\u00a0 She was one of the first academic colleagues to \u00a0champion the use and creation of OER at University of Oxford through her involvement in the Jisc funded Open Spires<\/em> and Great Writers Inspire<\/em> projects. Her OER licensed lectures reach an international audience and she continues to produce, publish and share cultural resources online.<\/p>\n

After some early Jisc funding in 2009 Oxford’s podcasts collection quickly became one of the largest growing collections of openly licenced\u00a0university\u00a0lectures online.\u00a0 Oxford podcasts have published nearly 10,000 thousand audio and video items. 50% of this content is CC licenced.\u00a0 It includes 6,000 individual speakers and presenters. More than 23 million episodes have been downloaded. 10 million episodes have been streamed.<\/p>\n

Emma was one of the first of the Oxford podcasters\u00a0and the first major contributor to record podcasts herself. She has published 48 episodes which are part of 7 different series. Her biggest successes are\u00a0\u2018Approaching Shakespeare<\/em>\u2019 and\u00a0\u2018Not Shakespeare\u2019<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Approaching Shakespeare<\/em> has had more that 500,000 thousand downloads and regularly features in the itunesU global top ten.<\/p>\n

Emma’s podcasts are only a small part of her work, but whenever I hear discussions about open academic practice I think of colleagues like Emma at Oxford who share so generously, but always with a wise, and enquiring eye to what\u00a0might happen as a result.<\/p>\n

Writing this post is reminding me of the connection between podcasting,\u00a0 recording and lecture capture…..ing,<\/p>\n

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lecture capture will set you free<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n