Don't record your lectures - educational podcast models

Educational Podcasting Models: Don't Record your Lectures impromtu session for BarcampScotland, 3/3/07 Andrew Middleton Sheffield Hallam University Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education podcast http://ltapodcast.blogspot.com a.j.middleton AT shu.ac.uk

Introduction
Andrew Middleton, Learning and Teaching Institute
My role is in Academic Innovation:
Horizon scanning
Creative development
Where emerging technologies meet learning, teaching and assessment
Main interests: educational use of...
audio, games, Second Life Integration of media for LTA

Rationale
Premise:
Podcasting is not an ideal medium for the distribution of lectures
Educational audio alone cannot sustain the engagement of a listener for longer than 20-30 minutes
There are better ways of flexibly delivering information in an educational context
Lectures are generally out-dated models of teaching designed for technical constraints of a previous era
They do not fit well with current theories on learner engagement (eg PBL, autonomous learning, and other student-centred approaches)

What is good about podcasting?
Podcasting particularly offers,
Ease of access to production
Media formats (audio, video, images, text, hyperlinks)
Device neutral - flexible access (portable or fixed location devices)
Location neutral - web distribution to remote devices
mobile access
syndication
serial
Social opportunities (commenting - text, audio, related on/off line environments)

Variety of authors/sources
Professional organisations
Educational publishers
Academic staff in SHU and beyond
Student peers and peer groups ('social podcasters') in home inst. and beyond
Other organisations and media (eg the BBC)

Media Interventions
Media Interventions - media used to orientate, focus, and motivate learners leading to learning activities in a variety of settings.
Conversations and audio illustrations.

Let's dream up some models
Question: How can audio podcasts be designed to trigger learning activity?

Don't record your lectures - educational podcast models

by Andrew Middleton on Mar 05, 2007

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