A Digital Education ( Podcasting)

An article titled "A Digital Education" by Timothy Ryan from American.com talks about how the internet can now bring people to the best college lectures in America. By podcasting, the internet offers an opportunity for people to have access to first-rate instruction, for free, from various universities such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and other Ivy League schools. Most of the lectures that are made available are topics that are most accessible and useful to the public such as lectures on global financial markets, politics, and even arts. Various universities made the lectures available online for the purpose of being able to serve society for higher learning and a way to generate interest in the school.

I think this is a very good source of information for everybody- young, old, in school, or not. These online lectures are now popular among US soldiers, bedridden stroke victims, and even high school students. Although podcasting cannot replace the experience of being in an actual classroom where there is a direct interaction between professors and students, this type of digital education can be a good alternative for those who are not in college but interested to learn.