Bearcats Become "Podcats" in the New Year

The University of Cincinnati will experiment with a new learning channel when classes resume on Jan. 3, 2006, after the winter break. That’s when an experiment with seven podcast courses begins.

Come the upcoming winter quarter, University of Cincinnati students will fine tune their study skills thanks to technology, specifically the ubiquitous portable jukeboxes called iPods or other brands of MP3 players.

That’s because starting on Jan. 3, the university begins a new experiment. Seven courses in UC’s McMicken College of Arts & Sciences – anthropology, biochemistry, communications, English, geology, German and psychology – will be “podcast.” The term (think of combining “iPod” and “broadcasting”) allows for a system that approximates a personalized radio station.

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