The talk explains the intentions and the success of podcast learning offered for university students. It shows how learning conditions have changed with the regular introduction of lectures accompanying RSS feeds containing combined audio and slide information. Answers to questions like "how and where this offering is used", "what are the benefits", and "do students by-pass the lectures" are given. The best practice part serves the podcast technology, the production process and a software project to improve authoring work dramatically. The project is embedded into a major research objective exemplifying a concept of Generic Content Transformation in the area of E-Learning Multimedia Production, called MOCCA. 

Michael A. Herzog teaches and researches at the University of Applied Sciences FHTW Berlin and the University of Technology Berlin. He gives lectures in multimedia technology, interactive media production and IT supported business process management. In his research he is concerned with Enterprise Content Management and Multimedia Content Production in the areas of E-Learning-, Video-, DVD- and Print-Production. He is especially interested in Mobile Multimedia Applications and Service Oriented Platforms for Mobile Solutions.

In 2004 he received the "Multimedia-Award of the University of Potsdam" for a component-based E-Learning Content Production approach developed for the Virtual Global University. Before he changed to an academic career in 2004 he has worked for about 14 years as senior executive and founder of several media sized IT-enterprises in Berlin (Germany) and Treviso (Northern Italy) concerning media technology and software development.