# How The Ohio State University Uses Jellypod

MBA professor Steve DeNunzio uses Jellypod to create weekly podcast episodes that reinforce logistics concepts for students beyond the lecture hall.

7-9 min

Weekly episodes

Released every Tuesday morning, short enough to finish in one sitting

## The Challenge

Steve teaches logistics and supply chain management to MBA students after a long industry career with brands like Lululemon and DSW. His real-world stories make the material tangible, but they also have to stay fresh and relevant.

He faces two core challenges:

1. **Keeping examples current and compelling:** Some logistics concepts are timeless, but many are not. Steve can’t rely on the same old case anecdotes year after year; students expect up-to-date, real-world context.
2. **Competing for student attention:** In a 70-minute MBA class, Steve needs nine or ten deliberate pivots, lecture, video, quick simulations, discussions, just to keep students engaged.

## The Solution

Jellypod helped Steve turn his logistics expertise into a scalable, flipped-classroom tool by streamlining every step of his weekly podcast workflow:

- **Idea validation and reach**: Steve discovered Jellypod through a colleague already using it with 5,000–6,000 LinkedIn followers, giving him a proven model for audience-driven content before bringing topics into the classroom.
- **Fast, focused content creation**: Each week, Steve selects one hot logistics topic and feeds credible source articles into Jellypod as context. The platform generates a structured script that he only needs to refine for style, cadence, and brevity, rather than writing from scratch.
- **Consistent, repeatable production**: The simple four-step workflow (pick topic → add sources → refine script → record) makes it realistic to publish a seven- to nine-minute episode every Tuesday morning.
- **Engaging delivery with AI voices**: Jellypod’s voice cloning and AI co-host capabilities let Steve record in his own voice alongside Ellie, a young British co-host. This deliberate contrast creates a natural, conversational dynamic convincing enough that colleagues assume Ellie is real, increasing listener engagement.
- **Classroom impact (flipped model)**: By packaging current logistics headlines into short, commute-length episodes, Jellypod enables Steve to flip the classroom: students consume the weekly brief before class, so in-person time can focus on analysis, debate, and applied work instead of basic information delivery.

## The Results

With key concepts reinforced asynchronously through weekly episodes, Steve's classes can move faster and dive deeper. He's designing for reduced cognitive load and real-world cadence.

- **Consistent weekly content:** a new episode every Tuesday keeps students current on logistics headlines.
- **Flipped classroom model:** seven-minute episodes serve as pre-class prep, freeing 70-minute sessions for higher-order discussion and applied work.
- **Voice clone authenticity:** students hear their professor's actual voice, maintaining the personal connection that makes great teaching stick.
- **Colleague adoption:** other Ohio State faculty are now using the same approach, testing content on LinkedIn before classroom deployment.
- **Reduced production burden:** what would normally require studio time and editing software now takes a fraction of the effort.

In a field where variability is the norm and agility is the advantage, Steve DeNunzio is modeling both, using AI podcasts to keep his students current, connected, and genuinely engaged.

> “It's not about replacing lectures. It's about reinforcing the arc of learning in the moments students actually have.”