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You are here: Home / Misc / List of Academic Lecture Podcasts

List of Academic Lecture Podcasts

By Mark Shead 23 Comments

This list has been updated for 2006. Here is the new list of academic podcasts you can listen to for free.

Prof-1I discovered early on that an iPod or MP3 player full of good spoken audio content went a long way toward keeping me productive when traveling, doing yard work, exercising, etc, but the charges from audible.com and buying CDs adds up quickly. Podcasts can automate the process of getting content and lower the cost, but much of the content available has more in common with radio entertainment than a well written book.

Several universities are making lectures available as Podcasts. Not every class is work well on an iPod, but the content is much more directed toward people who want to learn and not just be entertained. Of course the flip side of this is that some professors are boring in person, to say nothing of listening to their recordings on an iPod.  You may need to look around to find someone who is interesting to listen to, but once you find the right feed, you have a tremendous amount of content regularly published for entire semester.

You can subscribe to a class and set iTunes to download new lectures, sync them with your iPod, automatically delete them once you’ve listened to them (configured under iPod properties in iTunes).  This is a great way to expand your education without spending the time required in a traditional class.  One of the problems with playing mp3s on an iPod is the fact that it doesn’t keep track of where you are in the file.  So if you shut off your iPod and come back to it later, you may have to scan through the content to find your place.  This isn’t much of a problem on an iPod like the Nano where you have a wheel to navigate, but it can be a little difficult on the iPod Shuffle or other mp3 players that don’t have a way to visually see where you are in the recording.

Many of the classes don’t show up in the iTunes Podcast directory.
Below is a list of classes with links to the feed for the podcast. This
is in no way a comprehensive list, but it is the items that I thought
were interesting.

Purdue University:

  • AGEC100 – Introductory Agricultural Business and Economics
  • AGR101 – Introduction to the School of Agriculture and Purdue University
  • AGR290 – Special Topics in Agriculture
  • ANTH379 – Indians of North America
  • BCHM307 – Biochemistry
  • BIOL110 – Fundamentals of Biology
  • BMS511 – Systemic Mammalian Physiology
  • BTNY210 – Introduction to Plant Science
  • CE350 –  Environmental Engineering
  • CHM111 – General Chemistry
  • CSR342 – Personal Finance
  • COMM435 – Communication and Emerging Technologies
  • ECON210 – Principles of Economics
  • HIST105 – Survey of Global History
  • OLS274 – Applied Leadership
  • POL130 – Introduction to International Relations
  • PSY225 – Stereotyping and Prejudice

University of Washington:

  • OCEAN 102 – The Changing Oceans
  • POL S 202 – Infro to American Politics
  • CHID 110 A – The Question of Human Nature

Washington College of Law:

  • Various Topics – Mainly relating to legal issues.  Description of recordings here.

University of Hawaii:

  • ICS101 – Tools for the Information Age.

Harvard University:

  • CSIE-1 – Understanding Computers and the Internet.

University of San Francisco:

  • N340 – Principles and Methods of Nursing

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Comments

  1. Andrew M says

    October 27, 2005 at 3:33 am

    MIT also allow access to lectures online, although not podcasted. Plain ol’ stream I’m afraid.

    http://mitworld.mit.edu/

    Reply
  2. Daniel Poynter says

    October 27, 2005 at 3:15 pm

    I’m a Purdue student and delighted to see the university so well represented. = ) Thanks for compiling this list by the way.

    Reply
  3. Vitaliy says

    October 27, 2005 at 4:13 pm

    Absolutely great, thank you for this!

    Reply
  4. bryce says

    October 27, 2005 at 5:01 pm

    how do you add these rss feeds to itunes?

    Reply
  5. ed says

    October 27, 2005 at 6:58 pm

    bryce: drag n drop the link into the itunes window.

    Reply
  6. Professor says

    October 27, 2005 at 7:14 pm

    Awsome! ill be checking this site frequently. Will the list stay up to date?

    Reply
  7. Paul says

    October 27, 2005 at 8:32 pm

    Links to the videos of MIT lectures can also be found here (along with other free speeches, audiobooks, etc.)

    http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio

    Reply
  8. Mike says

    October 27, 2005 at 11:46 pm

    Allegheny College is podcasting events and lectures as well a weekly campus podcast. Check it out: http://webtools.allegheny.edu/podcast.

    Reply
  9. Gardner says

    October 28, 2005 at 12:21 pm

    The University of Mary Washington has just begun a series of “profcasts,” beginning with poet Claudia Emerson reading from her new, Pulitzer-prize-nominated collection, “Late Wife.” http://www.profcast.org.

    Reply
  10. Dan says

    October 28, 2005 at 6:11 pm

    I can’t get the streams from Washington University to work. I add the files to my iTunes window, and try to play them, but I get nothing. any help?

    Reply
  11. George says

    October 28, 2005 at 10:22 pm

    UC Berkeley has a ton of courses and events as streaming media. At least one course is podcasted, and most events are as well.
    http://webcast.berkeley.edu

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  12. Nathan says

    October 28, 2005 at 10:52 pm

    Stanford also has a good deal of content available through the iTMS. Not podcasts (individual downloads), but free. Don’t go searching for it in Itunes, though. You have to use the link found here:

    http://itunes.stanford.edu/

    Reply
  13. JT says

    October 29, 2005 at 3:13 am

    Be sure to check University Channel, it has a lot of interesting lectures, all podcast. Here’s the link:http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

    Reply
  14. kevin harper says

    November 1, 2005 at 11:35 pm

    could someone please get me the info about david robinson, jackie robinson son who is growing coffee in tanzania. i would like someway to get in touch with him to find out more.

    Reply
  15. Janick says

    November 2, 2005 at 12:55 am

    French academic podcast:
    http://www.canal-u.education.fr

    Reply
  16. gnorb says

    November 2, 2005 at 11:44 am

    Thanks for this info. Now I can more easily keep my brain from atrophying into a puddle of football-worshiping, Simpsons-quoting mush! (Seriously, after college learning became less about growing and more about doing just enough to not go broke and die.)

    Reply
  17. estatic says

    November 13, 2005 at 4:54 am

    heres is a ucla course Polical Science 141B – Electoral Politics: Public Opinion and Voting Behavior
    at http://www.oid.ucla.edu/webcasts/courses/2005-2006/2005fall/polisci141b/index.html

    Reply
  18. Carlos Toledo says

    February 9, 2006 at 6:22 pm

    Thank you for the excellent information of your blog.
    I invite you to discover what is happening with podcast in this part of the world. Greetng from Chile.
    Carlos Toledo verdugo

    First Educational Podcast from Chile is in San Fernando – Sexta Región

    Dear friends, I invite you to listen chilepodcast…..

    As and old time dxer or short wave listener, that I have changed the SWL hobby Of International Radios on Short wave, (Dxing) by the Internet, I have the pleasure to let you know that as May 17, 2005, International Day of Communication, you can download and listen the First Podcasting produced and poscasted from San Fernando Chile, to all Internet surfers of the world.

    If you have time and are interested in listening these programs from San Fernando, you can visit my website, where you can download the MP3 file for a later listening on your PC or MP3 player.

    This is my site: http://www.chilepodcast.cl
    This is my blog: http://chilepodcast.blogspot.com

    I remain for your questions, comments and suggestions about these programs.

    At the same time, I’ll be very thankful if you could send this mail to your Contacts, and distribute this news on your web site, in order to promote this new technology of communication.

    If you want to know more about me, search on http://www.google.com for:

    Carlos Toledo Verdugo or chilepodcast

    Program contents:

    Both my wife and I are Christian Teachers and we would like to podcast poetry, Chilean music, the history of Dxing in Chile, Bible reading and greetings from listener.

    My podcast are in Special Spanish (sometime in English) because I want reach all the people on the internet that are interested in learning my mother tongue Spanish.

    Also we would like to be in touch through this technology with fellow Spanish Teachers as a Second Language and their students of Spanish language.

    Sincerely, and God Bless you all.

    [email protected]

    Carlos Toledo Verdugo
    Primary School Teacher
    Profesor de Educación General Básica
    San Fernando – Sexta Región Chile

    Reply
  19. Ryan says

    January 21, 2007 at 6:56 pm

    HELP! Has anyone downloaded the Purdue Applied Leadership lectures? I was not able to download them all before they were disabled. I would pay for your help.

    Please write me here: [email protected]

    PLEASE HELP! :)

    Reply
  20. mook says

    September 9, 2007 at 12:43 am

    University of Bath in England:

    http://www.bath.ac.uk/podcast/

    Reply
  21. Mark says

    October 19, 2007 at 7:19 am

    The City University of New York has a wide range of podcasts from lectures to one on one talk shows with experts in immigration, home land security and more.
    http://www.cuny.edu/podcasts or
    http://www1.cuny.edu/forums/podcasts/

    Reply
  22. Sarah says

    June 22, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    They’re no MIT, but my previous schools also offer podcasts:
    Indiana University: http://podcast.iu.edu/Portal/
    and
    Washington State University: http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Podcasts_at_WSU

    Reply
  23. Miguel Berumen says

    July 21, 2009 at 3:45 pm

    Can any one direct me to where I can listen or view podcasts on topics related to agricultural engineer classes? thank you

    Reply

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