Apple rate Global Policy Institute podcasts
17th November 2008
The Global Policy Institute (GPI) has recently launched an innovative new video podcast, the first to be offered by London Metropolitan University.
The podcast will dramatically open up the GPI’s impressive events
and seminar programme to the public. Event videos will now be available
to view in the podcast directory on the Apple iTunes store website or
by subscribing to the GPI newsfeed or RSS feed. Subscribers will then
automatically be updated whenever a new seminar or conference becomes
available to view.
Dr Henning Meyer, Senior Research Fellow and Head of the European
Programme at the Institute, is very pleased with the initial response
to the already available podcasts: ‘This is the first video podcast
offered by the university and it is already a big success, having been
featured by Apple as ‘new and notable’ in the iTunes Store.’
Established in 2006, GPI conducts research into contemporary
globalisation issues, it has already provided 14 podcast videos of past
events including the Politics of Climate Change with Professor Lord
Giddens, Is Globalisation Destroying the West? with Gabor Steingart,
Senior Washington Correspondent of the German news magazine Der
Spiegel, and Europe - A Break with American Strategy? with Professor
Stephen Haseler, Director of the GPI, and John O’Sullivan, former
political advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
The podcast is an equally recent phenomenon, dating back to 2005.
The word literally means ‘iPod’ ‘broadcast’ and comprises of audio or
video digital-media files distributed over the internet by syndicated
download. Though most commonly viewed or listened to on an MP3 player,
podcasts can also be played on computers. This makes them suitable for
a huge variety of uses and the GPI’s decision to make them available
signals an important step for the University.
Podcasts have a large number of potential applications in the
educational sector: allowing absent pupils to catch up on missed
lessons, recording presentations, sharing research and ensuring
everyone in a class is up to date.
Click here to see the latest podcasts from The GPI.