Continuing Studies: Higher Ed Podcasting
Nov 3, 2026 · 30 min · 13 segments
The technology changes. Our instinct to tell stories doesn’t. In this episode of *Continuing Studies*, Neil and Jen nerd out on podcasting with Dr. David Schwartz of Augustana College about his…
Bringing information to the masses is something that is never, ever going to die.
And this is something that I always get in arguments with people because people are like, oh, radio is dead.
Yes, the actual format, like going on a terrestrial tower, probably isn't going to last much longer.
But what we're doing broadcasting... sharing information, sharing ideas is never going to go away.
And so the fact that you built a course and people are coming in and sitting in it and doing it, and there's not an empty seat, it just proves my point that people still want to do something like radio.
Whenever someone says to me, just like you, Jen, someone says to me, oh, journalism is dead or audio is dead.
It's like saying that when cars came along and the horse and buggy became obsolete, that transportation died.
No, it just evolved, that it continues to evolve and media continue to evolve and audio especially continues to evolve.
One of my things I find really interesting is that, hopefully I'm not going to be boring anybody with this, but that if we know from studies that if somebody is watching video and the video is kind of bad but the audio is good they will continue to listen but continue to try to watch but if it's the audio is i'm sorry if the video is perfect but the audio is bad they're done they're logged up so there's something about needing and wanting to hear that will be eternal
It's no different than back in the caveman days where we tell each other stories to pass the time and they would evolve throughout the years.
And so that's the one thing is people are never, ever going to stop sharing information.
In fact, the full name of the course we teach here is Podcasting and Audio Storytelling.
Bringing information to the masses is something that is never, ever going to die.
And this is something that I always get in arguments with people because people are like, oh, radio is dead.
Yes, the actual format, like going on a terrestrial tower, probably isn't going to last much longer.
But what we're doing broadcasting... sharing information, sharing ideas is never going to go away.
And so the fact that you built a course and people are coming in and sitting in it and doing it, and there's not an empty seat, it just proves my point that people still want to do something like radio.
Whenever someone says to me, just like you, Jen, someone says to me, oh, journalism is dead or audio is dead.
It's like saying that when cars came along and the horse and buggy became obsolete, that transportation died.
No, it just evolved, that it continues to evolve and media continue to evolve and audio especially continues to evolve.
One of my things I find really interesting is that, hopefully I'm not going to be boring anybody with this, but that if we know from studies that if somebody is watching video and the video is kind of bad but the audio is good they will continue to listen but continue to try to watch but if it's the audio is i'm sorry if the video is perfect but the audio is bad they're done they're logged up so there's something about needing and wanting to hear that will be eternal
It's no different than back in the caveman days where we tell each other stories to pass the time and they would evolve throughout the years.
And so that's the one thing is people are never, ever going to stop sharing information.
In fact, the full name of the course we teach here is Podcasting and Audio Storytelling.
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