University of Illinois at Springfield … also is exploring enhanced podcasting and vodcasting, which incorporate more advanced audio-visual and video components. By next year, Cheney said, he expects to offer some type of vodcasting content to students.

As consumers' access to bandwidth increases, podcasting becomes 'vodcasting', the video equivalent. The word hasn't been defined yet, but people are already creating such content.

Podcasting and VODcasting, and their pending derivatives, are not fads. They are very real and very practical distri-bution technologies. The ability to time-shift content versus traditional broadcast distribution models expands stu-dent teaching and learning opportunities significantly.