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Your voice sounds fine: Making podcasts to promote learning
Author(s) -
Dewar Eric Walter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.960.11
Subject(s) - task (project management) , documentation , multimedia , computer science , class (philosophy) , usable , mathematics education , psychology , artificial intelligence , management , economics , programming language
Science students have before them the task of learning both novel and enduring ideas, particularly in a courses about anatomy and physiology. I have implemented changes in my undergraduate anatomy and physiology course sequence, often with the use of podcasts. Podcasts are audio or video files that can be accessed by the user at a time of their choosing, either with a computer or a mobile device. I have tracked the effectiveness of the following uses of podcasts on my students’ learning: (1) stand‐alone lecture modules of primary course content; (2) interviews with scientists; (3) small study groups involving students that model effective learning; and (4) simple lecture recordings of traditional class meetings. These do require extra time on the part of the instructor and the student, but frees face‐to‐face time to focus on the more difficult content or discussion of case studies and the primary scientific literature. Use of this relatively simple and usable technology increases the overall student time spent on task for the course, generates reusable documentation for the instructor, and even frees us to consider what the purpose of the lecture is.