Utilising podcasts for learning and teaching: a review and ways forward for e-Learning cultures

Kidd, Warren

doi:10.1177/0892020612438031

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“…As the slogan for the 'One Minute Tip' podcast exemplifies, The Quick Burst is a genre that caters 'for busy people' (Chambers, 2011). Learner demand for podcast brevity has also previously been noted in many studies on educational podcasting, which report through student surveys that the interest and focus of learners can rapidly wane after the first five minutes (Lee & Tynan, 2008;Kidd, 2011), justifying brevity in podcasting.…”

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Educational podcasts: A genre analysis

Drew

2017

E-Learning and Digital Media

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Academic attention to educational podcasts has grown significantly in recent years. However, to date, the concept of genres in podcasting is yet to gain scholarly attention. By examining genres emergent from a corpus of educational podcasts available online, this paper introduces the value of genre analysis to educational podcast research. It proposes three genres, named ‘The Quick Burst’, ‘The Narrative’ and ‘The Chat Show’. The three genres show both the versatility of podcasting for education and how genre analysis could introduce new ideas to the educational podcasting literature, including ideas about supporting deep learning in e-learning environments.

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Section: The Quick Burstmentioning

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Educational podcasts: A genre analysis

Drew

2017

E-Learning and Digital Media

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“…Resultantly, discussion has pivoted recently towards exploration of considerations for podcast design, to explore how to maximise the perceived benefits of podcasting for education (Seery, 2012;Abdous et al, 2012;Kidd 2011). The next section outlines some common design features of education podcasting, as well as aspects that are often cited as desirable in podcast design.…”

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“…A podcast is an audio recording that can be delivered directly to consumers' media devices, including portable music players, computers, laptops, and smartphones (Kidd, 2011).…”

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Edutaining audio: an exploration of education podcast design possibilities

Drew

2017

Educational Media International

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The versatility, intimacy, and ease of production of podcasting makes it a logical technology to apply to flexible education contexts. As a result, there has been increasing scholarly interest in the value of education podcasting in recent years. While education podcasting literature has tended to explore podcast implementation in institutional contexts, education podcasts outside of academia have also grown in popularity, to the extent that 'education' is a common subgroup in podcast aggregation sites. This paper adapts Fernandez, Sallan and Simo's (2015) framework of variables in education podcast design, to conduct a textual analysis of emergent design themes in non-institutional education podcasts. The findings reveal how highly successful podcasts from outside of educational institutions can both reinforce and challenge norms about education podcast design that exist within academic discourse, including in regards to podcast length, pedagogical approaches, and the position of the podcast in the learning experience. It is the hope that the findings of this study might shift discourse from an interest in universalizing ideas about 'good practice' in education podcast design, towards more nuanced discussion of design practices that fit within specific contexts.

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“…Podcasts have been used and still are being applied in higher education in different courses and with several different purposes .…”

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Exploring podcasting in heredity and evolution teaching

Aguiar

Carvalho

2016

Biochem Molecular Bio Educ

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Podcasts are digital files very popular in several and very distinct areas. In higher education, they have been explored in a multitude of ways mainly to support teaching and learning processes. The study here described focuses the integration of podcasts in Heredity and Evolution, a course from the Biology and Geology Degree Program at University of Minho, Portugal. It aimed to introduce podcasts in the teaching/learning context, to empirically study different dimensions of podcasting, and to evaluate students' acceptance and receptiveness to the pedagogical use of this technology. Five informative podcasts and three with feedback were produced and delivered. All the students listened to the audio files and considered the episodes audible and clear, their preference going to episodes of short or moderate length and containing summaries, study guidelines or syllabus contents. Students judged extremely valuable the integration of this technology in learning and showed receptiveness to podcasting in other courses. Curiously, in spite of owning mobile devices, students clearly favored the use of personal computers to listen to the podcasts. This student acceptance and openness to podcasting has been encouraging its pedagogical application in other teaching courses. The episodes produced often maintain the characteristics identified as the best by the students of this study but the pedagogical approach has been moving to a more student-centered learning situation, with students as podcasts producers. © 2016 by The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 44(5):429-432, 2016.

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Utilising podcasts for learning and teaching: a review and ways forward for e-Learning cultures

Cited by 38 publications

References 28 publications

Educational podcasts: A genre analysis

Educational podcasts: A genre analysis

Edutaining audio: an exploration of education podcast design possibilities

Exploring podcasting in heredity and evolution teaching

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