Podcasting (an automatic mechanism whereby multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client en.wikipedia.org/wiki/podcast) is becoming increasingly popular in education. Although podcasts enable students and teachers to share information anywhere at anytime the most frequent application of the technology to date has been to allow students to download audio recordings of lessons or lectures. Over the last two years I have conducted trials of podcasting involving two campus-based undergraduate courses on which I teach. Working with two cohorts consisting of 150 first year and 90 second year biological sciences students I delivered weekly learning support materials to these groups of students. These podcasts were intended to support learning on these courses and did not directly replace lectures. They were most definitely not recordings of previous lectures. Rather the podcasts were intended to give feedback on students performance on the previous weeks assessment pointing out areas where many students had struggled and suggesting strategies for improving future performance.
Podcasting is Dead. Long Live Video!
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