Using videostreaming and podcasting to design rich-media online classes – a podcast

At the 2007 Educause conference, Diane Zorn described an online course in philosophy that she created.

Here are the main points that I got out of this podcast:

“The goal of distance education, in my experience, is not to replicate the in-class experience but rather to go beyond what is possible in a conventional classroom.”

She used Mediasite which provides a video of the instructor along with the corresponding Powerpoint files but with a little ingenuity, something similar to this could be done using Keynote, Garageband, and iMovie.