Digital Immigration - article 2
This article deals with the fairly new form of technology called podcasting, in which audio files are regularly and automatically distributed to listeners via the internet, and then listened to on a computer or mp3 player such as an IPod. This can also be used for educational purposes as the paper discusses how one university created a course where tutors could make a popcast of their lecture and post it on the university website. This enables students to repeatedly access these files and gain the lecture information whenever they choose. The tutors also put supplement material to go alongside the lecture notes so to give the students as much information as possible to counter-act the fact of no face-to-face teaching.
The data for this article is collected from the Penn State University in USA and is based upon this innovative course that was created there. The students enjoyed this form of learning as they could access the lecture files at any time they wanted and as they can take their mp3 players anywhere it meant they could listen to the files in any situation they choose - very different to a classroom situation.
1 comment:
Lauren,
This sounds interesting. What are your thoughts on if you were to listen to your lectures in such a way? I could see benefits to students with learning difficulties who have problems with note taking who may benefit from this?
All the best
Emma
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