March 25, 2009

600 New Podcasts in Our Directory

We have just added 600 new podcasts to the LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory! We searched all over the Web to find the best podcasts you can learn from in every category. Our LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory now features over 2000 podcasts. Since we started our handpicked podcast directory back in 2005, it has now grown into one of the top podcast directories on the Web. Browse all of the podcast in our directory today, including 600 new podcasts:

www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

Here are the number of podcasts that we’ve added by category. Please note that the podcasts are sorted by default according to popularity so you’ll have to dig deep in order to get the new podcasts which haven’t yet risen in popularity.

65 New Arts & Entertainment Podcasts

25 New Travel Podcasts

We have also cleared out all the dead podcasts in our directory and updated all the feeds of existing ones, so they should all work. Please let us know if you have any issues you have with a podcast or if there are any podcasts you’d like to see added to the directory by emailing us at: podcast@learnoutloud.com. You can also add your own podcasts to our site through our TeachOutLoud service.

Load up your iPod or portable audio player with downloads from over 600 new podcasts on LearnOutLoud.com.

www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

Since we just added 600 podcasts to our LearnOutLoud.com Podcast Directory, we wanted to showcase some of the Podcast Providers which we feature and have added podcasts for. Click the links below to check out all the podcasts from these podcast providers:

National Public Radio

KCRW (Public Radio Station in LearnOutLoud’s hometown of Santa Monica, CA)

Personal Life Media (Podcasts with expert advice on personal growth, anti-aging, intimacy and relationships)

NASA Podcasts

Oprah Winfrey’s Podcasts

Enjoy free new podcasts from these generous Podcast Providers.

And finally we’d like to highlight a few of the great new podcasts we’ve added to our site. Here are some of the podcasts from the 600 we’ve added that you might be interested in:

Anton Chekhov Select Stories Podcast

Love Language Minute with Dr. Gary Chapman Podcast

And 600 others! Check them all out here:

www.learnoutloud.com/Podcast-Directory

April 11, 2008

Top 12 Free University Podcasts

You can take your education anywhere you go when you tune into a free educational podcast. These podcasts should appeal to traditional students, distance learners, and anyone else who wants to study on the go. From pop culture to advanced physics, your options are vast. The following free university podcasts should be very enlightening:

Stanford

1. Quantum Mechanics – Discusses the theory of relativity and other physics-related topics.
2. Geography of World Cultures – This should help anyone who is taking a class in world cultures and anyone who travels regularly.
3. Ben Franklin and the World of Enlightenment – Learn about Ben Franklin’s life and achievements.
4. The Literature of Crisis – From Socrates to Shakespeare, this podcast discusses existential literature.

UC Berkeley

5. General Biology – Those learning the fundamentals of biology will benefit from this podcast.
6. Issues in Foreign Policy After 9/11 – A heated discussion from the politically charged campus of Berkeley.
7. Human Emotion – The science and psychology of human emotion.
8. Introduction to Human Nutrition – This is a helpful podcast for anyone, not just students.

Duke

9. Nintendo: A History of Innovation – Discusses the history of the company and its many innovations.
10. Italiano 2.02 – Learn all about the Italian culture, from language to cuisine.
11. Game2Know Focus IDC – Topics related to online gaming and more.
12. Business Ethics – General discussions on business ethics.

As you can see, there is a wide variety of topics being covered by some of the most famous universities in the country. One can almost receive a completely free college education just by tuning into podcasts like the ones above.

By-line:

Heather Johnson is a freelance writer, as well as a regular contributor for OEDB, a site for learning about online education. Heather invites your questions, comments and freelancing job inquiries at her email address: heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com.

April 17, 2007

We’ve never seen the iTunes homepage look prettier!

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iTunes has just added the LearnOutLoud podcast “room” where you can check out all of our podcasts.

Click here to check out our podcast room on iTunes

January 24, 2007

LearnOutLoud featured on iTunes

Popped over to iTunes today and was pleasantly surprised to see LearnOutLoud featured on the homepage of the iTunes Podcast Directory. People are really digging The Philosophy Podcast and the Great Speeches in History Podcast (among others). We’re well over 30,000 subscribers so thanks to all of you and kudos to David and Seth here for the incredibly hard work they are putting in to make these great content available.

In the words of that great philosopher Borat “I likes!”

December 13, 2006

LearnOutLoud Podcasts Garner Best of 2006 Awards on iTunes

Two of LearnOutLoud’s Podcasts received mention in iTunes Best of 2006 Awards. The Philosophy Podcast was awarded both a Best of 2006 People’s Choice Award and a Best of 2006 Staff Favorites Award. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast generated some of the most subscriptions in the past year of any podcast and was also given a 2006 People’s Choice Award. To check out the best of this year’s podcasts in iTunes click the links below:

iTunes Best of 2006 People’s Choice Awards

iTunes Best of 2006 Staff Favorites Awards

Thanks for all who subscribed! We pledge to release many new podcasts in 2007, so stay tuned!

November 10, 2006

The Philosophy Podcast…More Popular than the Man Show?

I’m in awe at how popular our Philsophy Podcast has become. We just recently launched it and yet it has become one of the most popular podcasts on iTunes (currently sitting at #24). My brother has always said that he would be incredibly stoked when one of our podcasts surpassed the Man Show (Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla’s podcast) in popularity. Well, that has finally happened!!! (Man Show is currently #29 on iTunes)

Let’s compare recent episodes of The Philsophy Podcast vs. The Man Show…

Philosophy Podcast = What is Enlightenment – Now we take a closer look at the world of Immanuel Kant and his essay What is Enlightenment.

vs.

The Man Show = Great Moments In Stupidity – Watch a dumbass bash his own head in with a bottle!

*or*

Philosophy Podcast = Discourse on Method – This week we showcase a selection from Discourse on Method by Rene Descarte.

vs.

The Man Show = Camcorders For Lesbians – CCFL is here to provide young, hot lesbians with camera to film their love. Please, donate now.

Could it be that thoughtful, intelligent content is actually starting to win out over all the mindless drivel that’s out there? Well, let’s not get carried away…after all, we’re not #1 yet but it is encouraging that in the world of podcasting consisting of a lot of stupid and inane stuff, high-quality podcasts from people like NPR, National Geographic and of course LearnOutLoud are starting to shine through.

🙂

October 20, 2006

LearnOutLoud at the Portable Media Expo

Last month at the Portable Media Expo, David and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jeff McQuillan from the ESL Podcast and Douglas Welch from over at Career Opportunities to talk about podcasting and education. The portable media expo is getting bigger and better every year and more people from the academic community are catching on to the potential posed with the advent of the ipod. For a half hour we discussed how mainstream education has tested the waters recently with podcasts in the classroom, the pros and cons of making a show for free, and what the future may hold for ongoing education as technology becomes more and more advanced.

We’ve made this recording available to you in two ways; first you can go to this page and download it for free, or you can retrieve via the Audio Learning Revolution Podcast here. I have to give a special thanks to Lance Anderson and everyone involved with the LA Podcasters for providing the booth space and timeslot for this illuminating panel. Feel free to drop us a line and offer your impressions of what we talked about here. Everything we touch on is a definite work in progress!

September 14, 2006

#30 and Climbing – The Emerson Podcast

So our Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast is getting a lot of buzz this week. It was featured again in the iTunes Podcast Directory, has quickly picked up over two thousand subscribers, and is now the #30 most popular podcast in all of iTunes land (at least as of 9/15/06 6:46 PM PST). This is really sweet. We’d like Ralph Waldo Emerson to top “The Man Show Video Podcast” and we’re not that far away, so if you haven’t subscribed yet please do!

If you haven’t subscribed yet, click here to do so. Then just click on the button to subscribe in iTunes and you’re all set.

September 1, 2006

#85 and Climbing – The Emerson Podcast

So our Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast is getting a lot of buzz this week. It was featured in the iTunes Podcast Directory in the Literature category, quickly picked up several hundred new subscribers and is now the #85 most popular podcast in all of iTunes land (at least as of 12:22 AM PST). This is really sweet. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb and say that it’s probably one of the most intellectual podcasts that’s ever been in the Top 100. Of course that’s not saying all that much considering that we’re currently sharing Top 100 time with the MuggleCast (Harry Potter), The Hills Video Podcast (my gosh I do love that show though…) and my personal favorite Ask a Ninja (love that one too!!!).

If you haven’t subscribed yet, just click here to do so. Then just click on the button to subscribe in iTunes and you’re all set.

Long live Emerson.

August 26, 2006

Get Ready for Another Semester at UC-Berkeley!

It’s back to school at UC-Berkeley and they’re podcasting many of the courses they podcasted in the Spring of 2006 along with a number of new courses. Here’s some of the new ones they’ll be podcasting:

Introduction to General Astronomy

Introduction to General Astronomy

Economic Analysis – Macroeconomics

Properties of Materials

Earthquakes in Your Backyard

American Environmental and Cultural History

World Regions, Peoples, and States

General Human Anatomy

Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Technical, Economic, Social, and Legal Perspectives

History of Information

Survey of the Principles of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanical Engineering Design

Heat Transfer

Introduction to Nonviolence

Physics for Future Presidents

General Psychology

Human Emotion

Social Psychology

Introduction to Statistics

Geometric Optics

Drugs and Behavior Podcast

You can access the RSS feeds and start subscribing to them here:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/feeds.php

And for a listing of all the podcasted courses they’ve released to date check them out here:

https://www.learnoutloud.com/berkeley

Thanks UC-Berkeley! You’re the most generous college in America!