100th podcast released
Today Jisc reaches its 100th podcast and looks back at its top ten downloads.
In 2007 as the Welsh Assembly went to election, Jisc launched its first podcast, with an interview with Carwyn Jones who at the time was Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language.
It is three years since Jisc first started offering colleges and universities the opportunity to listen to interviews with education leaders, ministers and practitioners from across education and research. Over this time the popularity of its podcasts have steadily increased, with over 700 regular subscribers and each podcast on average receiving 1700 downloads.
The top ten downloaded Jisc podcasts
Podcast
Total downloads
1
Why is Google showing us the way forward in digitisation? asks senior UK librarian
5,892
2
What is Web 2.0 and how is it impacting on education?
5,399
3
Steve Bailey of Jisc infoNet talks about managing the business of education
5,397
4
Jisc Digitisation programme - five centuries of unique resources
4,110
5
Librarians say Google can support international education and research
4,101
6
Mobile education is the way of the future
3,723
7
Find your way around e-Assessment
3,695
8
Reflections on Online Educa Berlin
3,331
9
The open access argument is won, says leading advocate
3,249
10
The e-Framework for international education and research
3,152
Hector Peebles Jisc’s Multimedia & Community Editor says: “Although podcasts are common place today, in 2007 they were viewed as new and an emerging way of sharing information - and we weren’t sure if people would listen.
"The fact that we’ve reached our 100th podcast shows that people are listening and finding their content valuable. We champion the use of the latest digital technologies and trends, so we are constantly looking at how colleges and universities can use digital technologies for learning, teaching and research.
“Our podcasts are now well established and so the next step is to increase our multimedia content on our website and output via our Web 2.0 channels.”