Audio Lectures

Copyright 2005 Jerry Wegman.  All rights reserved.

Audio lectures for this course are delivered in two formats for your convenience (Real and MP3). Please select the format that best fits your needs.

Format 1: Real Audio

Real Audio is streaming media—which is to say that it starts playing very soon after you click on a real audio hyperlink and continues to play while the rest of the lecture is downloading in the background. This format requires an Internet connection each time a student listens to a lecture. An advantage of this format is that a student may begin listening to the audio lecture almost immediately without having to wait for the entire audio file to download to a local computer.

Real Player is required to hear the streaming audio material available below. Click here to download a free version of Real Player.

Format 2: MP3 Audio

MP3 is a standard non-streaming audio file format. It must be completely downloaded to a computer before it can be opened and listened to. An advantage of this format is that an audio file may be downloaded ahead of time and thus, does not require an Internet connection during the time a student listens to the lecture. These files may also be transferred to a mobile device (e.g. iPod, MP3 Player) allowing a student to listen to a lecture while away from a computer.

MP3 audio files may be played using many different multimedia packages including Windows Media Player and iTunes. To download an MP3 audio file listed below, right click on the corresponding hyperlink and select Save Target As...