Higher education podcasts are starting to grow, organise

A week ago, in a conference centre on the campus of the University of Illinois, Chicago, nearly 150 podcasters and podcast support providers gathered at the first Higher Education Podcast Conference – HigherEd PodCon, as it aims to brand itself. Attendees have podcasts, or support podcasts, with specific themes, audiences or tie-ins to higher education or higher education institutions, writes Derek Newton for Forbes.

The conclave was interesting not as much for what happened, but for what could happen. But first, are there really 150 podcasts focusing on higher education? No.

According to Gregg Oldring, founder of HigherEdPods and CTO of Podium Podcast Co, that 150 number is just a tiny fraction of higher education podcasts. Oldring says that he already has a list of a staggering 1,130 podcasts in higher education – and that’s covering just 191 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Full report on the Forbes site