Article: Podcasting professors may set trend at U. Texas

Yashoda Sampath
University Wire
09-13-2005
(Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Ubiquitous iPods may soon find a more academic use, as teachers prepare to put downloadable lectures on the Internet for $5 per lecture.

Pick-A-Prof, an online service that allows students to anonymously review their teachers, has linked up with three advertising professors at the University of Texas to record and offer downloadable audio files titled "Coursecasts."

So far, the program is being tested only here and at Texas A&M University. Three UT professors have signed on to allow their classes to be guinea pigs: William Cunningham, William Carner and Gary Wilcox. All three teach undergraduate ...

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