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(By Richard Davies) LyceumPodcasts— a new audio university and community for educational podcasters and their listeners was announced during Sound Education, a four-day event in Boston for hundreds of educational podcasters and their listeners.
“The community I am creating for is people who are interested in ideas,” said Zachary Davis, founder of Sound Education.
“What if the world’s best teachers, from yogis to Yale professors, were brought together in a common space — a new world of learning at the tip of your fingers?”
LyceumPodcasts’ newly launched website says “we are empowering educators to open their classrooms to the world and making it easy for listeners to pay the podcasters they love. Together, we are curating the cosmos of knowledge.”
“Our problem now is not information, but access: finding teachers to learn from, peers to learn with, and students to teach.”
Plans call for an online space that curates and connects: where creators of educational podcasters and their listeners can gather in interactive communities on the same platform they use to listen. “We are bringing teachers and learners together in person through Lyceum Chapters,” it says.
The announcement came on the final day of Sound Education, the well-attended conference for educational and academic podcasters.
Organizers say the podcasting event’s goal was “to distill complex information into lectures, conversations, and interviews that are free and accessible to everyone in the world.”
“This was the most wonderful, warm, and useful conference I’ve ever attended,” said philosopher and writer, Samual Loncar.
That sentiment was shared by many other participants, including veteran journalist, podcaster and public radio host, Christopher Lydon. “There’s a sense of urgency and public opportunity here. I haven’t looked around at a journalism setting with as many beautiful, enthusiastic people as I’ve seen here since I was in the bureau at the New York Times.”
_Richard Davies is the host of the weekly solutions journalism podcast _How Do We Fix It? He runs DaviesContent, a podcast consulting and production firm.