Ubiquity has an interview with Doug Kaye about, among other things, The Conversations Network, a non-profit online audio publisher. Here is a quote from the interview on content in universities,
the university situation is fascinating because most universities already have a program to record lectures. They may not be recording classwork per se, because in some cases the class work is proprietary, and they don’t want to let it out without a fee. But in any case there is a lot of stuff that is being recorded that these universities seem to be putting into vaults. They have no distribution plan.
Some universities, like Stanford, now have podcasting strategies, but the deeper problem is that lectures make boring podcasts. There is archival value in them, but they are rarely edited to be easy to listen to and are often detached from their context and slides.
Kaye has a blog called Blogarithms. This is from Humanist.