Education Podcasts and Blogs

[higheredhopeful]

Since so many of us are anxiously refreshing the Results Search every five minutes, I thought it would be nice if we shared some of our favorite education-related podcasts/blogs/YouTube channels/whatever to help us spend our waiting time productively. 

 

I've found that listening to higher ed podcasts on my commute is giving me great ideas for future research papers and is a lot easier than trying to hold up the Chronicle of Higher Education in a packed subway.

 

Here are some that I've been enjoying:

 

This Week @ Inside Higher Ed (discussions of education policy, politics and education, economy and education)

 

Higher Ed Live (every episode rotates around different teams- Marketing, Student Affairs--who just did a great episode on job searching/placement, Admissions, and Advancement)

 

The Student Affairs Spectacular (entertaining podcast where the hosts interview a higher ed professional in a certain niche, like food insecurity or geek/nerd culture or orientation programs

 

Higher Ed Social (very casual discussions, often talk about the various functions of social media in higher ed)

 

 

I haven't really been following any education blogs, but after seeing NMB's post (quoted below) with a link to some Penn GSE student blogs, I was wondering if anybody else had some to share from other schools.

 

Is anyone else joining the IEDP google hangout tomorrow? I read about it on this student's blog, and I would love to attend but will be in a lunch meeting. If anyone is able to attend and share their notes, I'd be super interested + appreciative!

 

Good luck with the wait, everyone.

[NMB]

Hey I love this idea! Harvard recently posted a new "EdCast" featuring Professor Stephen Heyneman from Vanderbilt speaking on education & corruption around the world... pretty interesting to me, as I consider comparative education programs at both these schools!

 

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/15/02/harvard-edcast-education-and-corruption

 

Thanks for starting this thread; probably a way more productive place to be than anxiously checking the results page every 10 minutes! 

[bakalamba]

Great post - it's always good to engage with the field outside of reading books and articles, which, in the end, is only one way of communicating information and discussing ideas. New Books in Education has interviews with authors about their education related books, and it's pretty easy to scour the archive to find people in your field (I'm in Comparative Education, and it's well represented, as usually domestic education issues get priority). It's part of the New Books Network, and I also listen to choice shows from other fields that I'm interested in or overlap with Education.

 

NPR also packages all of their education stories into one weekly(ish) podcast, which I find is a great way to get news about what's happening in education that may be outside of my radar.

[NMB]

Man, thank you guys so much! I REALLY love this interview with Robin Shields, and I'm so excited to explore New Books Network altogether... what an awesome site. Thank you again for bringing it to my attention!