Podcast #275: Making Scholarly Podcasts Count

Podcast #275: Making Scholarly Podcasts Count

Author: Radio Survivor December 9, 2020 Duration: 1:16:51

Podcasting is increasingly being taken up by people in academia, for myriad reasons. Some professors are looking for ways to share their work, others use it as a research tool, some include it as part of their teaching practice, while others seek to include podcasting as an official part of their scholarly output. We dig […]

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Duration: 1:59:00
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Duration: 58:52
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Podcast #282 – New FCC, Who Dis? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:00
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Duration: 1:32:06
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Duration: 1:30:32
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Duration: 59:34
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Duration: 58:54
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Duration: 1:37:51
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Duration: 1:23:49
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