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1Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning
Atopical start-up guide series on emerging topics on Educational Media and Technology
2 CEMCA EdTech Notes
Introduction
Podcasting originated as a technology to create
and distribute personal “radio shows” via the
internet. It is now becoming a technology used to
support learning in many educational contexts, at
least in more economically developed countries. A
2008 survey of learning technologies used in
higher education institutions in the UK (Browne et
al. 2008) showed that podcasting is a tool that
has “increased significantly in prominence” in UK
universities (p. 2). Increasing numbers of research
papers published on podcasting indicate a
growing interest from teachers, technologists and
researchers in this field.
Long before the invention of podcasting and its
subsequent rise to popularity, educational
benefits of audio presentation were identified in
podcasting’s predecessors: radio, audio-cassettes
and audio-vision. The content medium of most
podcasting is recorded audio, which is not new in
education. Durbridge (1984) at the Open
University in the UK claimed that audio can
influence cognition through clarity of instruction,
conveying immediacy and encouraging a sense of
connection between students and their teachers.
Wood and Keeler (2001) reported that embedding
short audio files recorded by tutors into emails
helped to increase student participation in group
activities, added a sense of online community and
increased satisfaction with the overall learning
experience. Re-incarnation of recorded audio as
podcasts has made inroads into not only distance
learning but also campus-based teaching and
learning.
Social and technological changes have increased
the uptake of podcasting in formal learning
contexts. Software for creating and distributing
podcasts, and technical instructions on the use of
such software and tools are freely available on
the internet, making podcasting a “low threshold
technology” (Ramsden, 2007). Significant numbers
of students taking university courses own one or
more devices capable of playing podcasts -
varieties of digital devices that can playback
music files as well as sound player software
available on laptop computers and mobile
phones.
Pedagogical
Podcasts
In an early book on podcasting (Salmon &
Edirisingha, 2008) we considered podcasts and
podcasting as new practices that were still
evolving. However, the technologies, tools and
devices for creating, distributing and accessing
podcasts have developed since then, and we
cannot say that podcasts are a new form of
technology anymore.
We consider (Salmon & Edirisingha, 2008)
podcasts:
• as digital media files that plays sound, or
sound and vision
• are made available from a website
• can be opened and/or downloaded and
played on a computer
• are downloaded from a website to be played
on a portable digital player (such as a
mobile phone or a dedicated player, such as
an iPod or other brand of portable MP3
player).
A pedagogical podcast is a media file that has
been developed based on some kind of a
pedagogical design, i.e., with an aim to achieve
one or more learning objectives. We return to this
learning design approach later in this EdTech Note.
Technically speaking, what distinguishes podcasts
from other digital media is that the technology
that underpins podcasts enables digital media
files to be delivered over the internet using
syndication feeds. These feeds download podcasts
automatically through a subscription service, to
be played back in due time on a dedicated digital
media player or a computer. The content is
“automatically delivered to [a user’s] computer as
soon as ‘new content’ is posted on the web” (BBC,
2005). Such a subscription-based access makes
podcasts ‘a pull’ technology rather than a ‘push’
technology (automated) because the user does not
have to seek and download new content manually
(Campbell, 2005). While these technical
approaches are helpful for delivering and
accessing podcasts, we should try to follow
Learning
Pedagogical Podcasting
for
Introduction
3Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning
approaches that are easier for the majority of
teachers to use. We can make use of podcasting
technology without the use of an automated
distribution and access approach. Instead we can
make podcasts and deliver them to our learners
though a variety of available means, for example,
by uploading to a Virtual Learning Environment
(VLE), other forms of websites, email, memory
sticks, and CD-ROMs. Our focus here is the
creation of podcasts using a sound learning
design approach.
Experience of the
Use of Podcasts in
Education
The literature on podcasting demonstrates a wide
variety of uses for podcasts in higher education as
well as in other sectors of education. Geoghegan
and Klass (2005) offered valuable advice on
locating and downloading podcasts as well as
“the secrets of creating podcasts”, including steps
involved in recording, editing, encoding, and
uploading podcasts to websites. Shamburg’s book
(2009) entitled Student-Powered Podcasting is a
practical guide for school teachers which argue
for students’ active involvement in the planning
and creation of podcasts. “Student-powered
podcasting” is presented as an under explored
genre of podcasting, an ideal approach to
cultivate “powerful ideas” and taking students
further down the road to 21st
century literacy. The
emphasis is on what students can potentially learn
using podcasting technology as creators rather
than as passive consumers of podcasts created by
their teachers. This echoes Steventon’s (2012)
ideas of an important distinction between
‘production’, where students become creators of
teaching and learning material, and ‘consumption’
where they are simply the passive recipients of it.
Sfard (1998) and Collis and Moonen (2002) refer
to ‘contribution-oriented’ and ‘participation-
oriented’ activities. The former has the greatest
scope for embedding students in their learning
through the generation of ideas and content.
Podcasting has the potential for both.
The educational benefits of podcasting have been
demonstrated in many discipline areas of higher
education. Pegrum, Bartle and Longnecker (2014),
for example, examined whether podcasting can be
used to promote deep approach to learning that
result in active understanding of meaning and
better learning outcomes. First-year chemistry
undergraduate students were engaged in
‘collaboration, contextualisation of content, and
communication through new media, especially
creative podcasting’. The researchers concluded
that “under some circumstances creative
podcasting may … help to promote a deep learning
approach” (p. 1).
A second relevant example of the use of podcasts
in university level education is that of Popova,
Kirschner and Joiner (2014) who examined how
students’ learning can be supported through
‘primer podcasts’ – i.e., podcasts that can help
students to prepare for their forthcoming lectures.
Their findings show that “audio advance
organisers and questions experienced by students
have a positive influence on learning, because
they help students bridge the conceptual distance
between new and prior knowledge, better
understand the topics in the lectures and
stimulate thinking more deeply about the lecture’s
content and the possible applications of the
subject of the lecture” (p. 330).
A third relevant research project on podcasting is
one carried out by Kay and Kletskinilona (2012)
who examined the use of ‘Problem-based video
podcasts’ in teaching mathematics in higher
education. These podcasts offered “short, web-
based, audio-visual explanations of how to solve
specific procedural problems” (p. 619). The
researchers created problem based video
podcasts covering five key areas of mathematics
as self-study tools and involved 288 university
students to acquire pre-calculus skills over a three
week period. The results indicated that “a majority
of students used the video podcasts frequently,
rated them as useful or very useful, viewed them
as easy to use, effective learning tools, and
reported significant knowledge gains in pre-
calculus concepts” (p. 619).
Studies on podcasting have been conducted in
other areas of education too. For example, Tam
(2012) reported the effectiveness of using
podcasts for teaching music and visual arts in a
teacher-education institution. Using a survey
methodology with 128 students (Year 1 – Year 4)
and focus groups with 24 students, the author
found that the podcasts have been a useful
technology that can supplement face-to- face
teaching. Students preferred the podcasts that
have been used for demonstrating procedures to
those used to deliver lectures.
These studies and a majority of reports in the
literature on podcasting in education show
positive benefits for learning, derived from the use
of podcasts. In surveys and interviews, students
4 CEMCA EdTech Notes
have reported that they value the flexibility offered
by podcasts as well as the cognitive and
motivational benefits obtained from listening to
them.
Incorporating Podcasts
into Teaching and
Learning Activities
While the literature offers teachers plenty of
examples of podcasting for teaching and learning,
they may benefit further from having a conceptual
framework of how podcasts can be integrated into
the broader context of teaching, learning and
assessment. Here we provide an overarching
framework to aid teachers and learning support
staff in considering how podcasting can be
adapted to their own teaching and learning
context, and in developing their own podcasts to
improve practice within that context.
Figure 1 illustrates our podcasting framework. It
consists of a core and a periphery, showing
teaching, learning and assessment activities. The
framework’s core consists of the most common
higher education teaching and learning activities,
such as lectures, seminars, workshops, lab-work,
field-work, working with the aid of a computer,
student presentations and assessments. More
could be added depending on the particular
teaching and learning context and the activities
that the teacher and students engage in. At the
periphery are specific issues related to student
learning in higher education. Within this
framework, we (www.impala.ac.uk) provide some
examples of how podcasts have been used, both to
support core teaching and learning activities and
to address issues related to student learning.
The podcasting approaches reported here were
generated through a research and development
project called IMPALA (Informal Mobile
Podcasting And Learning Adaptation,
www.impala.ac.uk) at the University of Leicester.
IMPALA examined how podcasts can bring the
advantages of digital audio (both tutor- and
student-generated) to facilitate learning in higher
education. The research was carried out in five UK
universities (Leicester, Nottingham, Kingston,
Gloucestershire and Royal Veterinary College)
across a range of disciplines: Chemistry,
Engineering, English Language, Human Geography,
Physical Geography, Genetics, Media and
Communication, Physics, Sociology and Veterinary
Sciences. IMPALA had its associate projects in
Scotland (The University of Edinburgh), South
Africa (The University of Cape Town); and Australia
(Charles Sturt University and University of New
England).
Designing
Pedagogical
Podcasts
Here we propose an 8-step framework
for designing pedagogical podcasts
(Fig. 2, adapted from Salmon and
Edirisingha, 2008). Our focus here is
the design and creation of audio
podcasts.
Step 1: Pedagogical rationale
It is important to make the decision to
use podcasts in teaching based on a
sound rationale, i.e., a teaching and
learning problem, a challenge or an
issue that you have identified. Students
will not be interested your podcasts if
they can’t see the point of listening to
them. Podcasts need to be linked to
Figure 1: Integration of podcasts into teaching, learning and assessment activities
Core Learning,Teaching and Student SupportActivities
5Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning
your teaching and learning activities. Podcasts
with a rationale behind them are also more likely
to appeal to your academic colleagues and course
team. A good starting point would be to list a
number of learning outcomes for podcasts and
consider how they are linked to the overall
learning outcomes of the lesson and the module
or the course.
Step 2: Converging with other teaching
and learning activities
It is a good practice to integrate your podcasts
with the rest of your teaching and learning
provision and especially with other learning
activities. The more the students see podcasts as
part of the overall teaching and learning
provision, the better motivated they will be to
access and use them. Your students should not
perceive your podcasts as added extras.
Step 3:Authors and contributors
Who contributes to podcasts depends on the
purpose of the podcasts, and the challenge being
addressed. There can be a number of broad
categories of contributors:
• teachers, instructors, tutors etc.
• other experts in the field (e.g.,
practitioners from the
industry, eminent
researchers,
teachers)
• members of the
local community
• students on
the course
• students
who have
completed
the course
Step 4:
Episoding
Depending on your
objectives, you need to
choose the best way of
structuring your podcasts
and how frequently to
deliver them. First, are you going to offer a single
podcast or a series? If you are going to create a
series of podcasts, will it be weekly, fortnightly or
monthly? Will they be targeted on specific events
(such as induction week), or aligned with
assessment events such as examinations? It is
good practice to consider these at the planning
stage so your students know how many podcast
they are going to receive and when to expect them.
Step 5: Reuse and repurposing
Developing podcasts, however enjoyable and
useful for supporting student learning, has
resource implications. Therefore it is important to
consider the reusability of your podcasts, in their
entirety or in part. Reusability can be achieved by
planning to record your podcasts as small chunks
and saving them as separate files with easily
identifiable tags / labels. More on this under
technology section.
Step 6: Style
Style, in this context, means the degree of
formality adopted and the genre (e.g., interviews,
discussions, perhaps a drama!) selected for your
podcasts. The style of a podcast is important for
several reasons. Most educational
podcasts are audio for
simplicity and usability.
Therefore they need to be
interesting to listen to
as well as being
informative, if they
are to hold students’
attention. Although
thetarget
audience of your
podcasts are a
whole group /
cohort of your
students, very
often they will be
listening to your
podcasts
individually, not as a
group. Therefore it is
useful to bear in mind
to speak as if you are
talking to an individual
student.
Figure 2: An 8-step Podcast development framework
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Conclusions and
Implications for
Teachers and Policy
Makers
The purpose of this document was to introduce
what podcasts are and give an insight into how
podcasts can be incorporated into teaching,
learning and assessment activities. The growing
literature on podcasting provides us with ample
examples of approaches to using podcasting.
The frameworks proposed here can help us to
reflect on the bigger picture of teaching and
learning activities that teachers and students
carry out, both face-to-face and on location,
and to select an approach that is most suitable
to a recognised teaching and learning issue.
Starting with a clear pedagogical rationale is
critical for the success of an approach to
podcasting. The podcasting approaches
presented here share a common feature; they
have all been developed to address a particular
teaching and learning challenge. Research into
the impact of these approaches has shown
positive benefits to student learning.
As the approaches described in this document
demonstrated, you can involve not only
teachers and subject experts, but also students
and other stake-holders in the podcast
development process. The content generated
from and by students has helped students to
learn generic learning and study skills, to
alleviate study-related anxieties, and to develop
reflective skills. Consider getting your students’
active participation in developing podcasts.
VLE is the main delivery platform for all the
podcasts described in this document, and
research carried out on student use of
podcasts showed that students were able to
access and use them without technical issues.
Therefore, we can confidently say that VLE-
based podcast delivery works well for
academic podcasts. If you use a subscription-
based approach to deliver your podcasts, it is
important to help students understand how
they can subscribe to your podcasts in order to
access them.
Podcasting can support learning face-to-face,
online and on location, and it can help
students to learn both conceptual topics and
practical subject matter. As this EdTech Note
has outlined, many social and technical trends
are working in favour of using podcasts for
teaching and learning. So, please explore,
experiment and report on your stories of
podcasting for learning.
Improving teaching and learning has been a
long-standing concern in all levels of
education (see for example, Laurillard, 2002;
Biggs, 2003; Entwistle, 2009). Can podcasts
really offer a fundamentally different approach
to teaching and learning? Certainly the
competencies of digital technologies and the
scope of Internet delivery have improved
exponentially in an incredibly short time span
and there are no signs of this progress abating
in the near future (Ellis and Goodyear, 2010).
Riding on these technological developments,
podcasts can offer a tool for academics to
innovate their pedagogies. They are one of the
simplest means of meeting some of the
pedagogic challenges.
Step 7: Framework ora plan
Framework or a plan for each podcast is
important for engaging your students and helping
them to successfully learn. Unlike a text file, an
audio file is limited in that we cannot glance at the
whole document, or quickly scan it to get a sense
of its content, to see how we wish to use it. It is
important to provide a brief description at the
beginning of the podcast what is going to be
covered. This is normal practice in radio
programmes, such as documentaries and current
affairs, as well as in delivering lessons.
Step 8: Access
We touched on this aspect earlier in this
document. While podcasts can be delivered to
your students over the Internet using ‘push’
technologies (using syndication feeds), we need to
make it easy for our students to access them. As
we have mentioned earlier we can deliver
podcasts though a variety of locally available
means. Uploading podcasts to a Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE) is a commonly used method.
Podcasts can also be emailed or distributed using
memory sticks, and CD-ROMs.
7Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning
Storing Podcast and Applications
In the My Documents folder on you computer create a
folder called ‘Podcasts’. This will be a good place to store
all applications required and recordings you make.
Creating Podcasts with Audacity
(The first version of this guide was created by Simon Kear in 2012. It was revised byAdam Pryor in 2014)
DownloadAudacity
Visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to download the version of
Audacity you require for your operating
system.
There are also portable versions available
online which do not require installing, and
can be used from a memory stick.
SaveAudacity
At this stage of the download select
‘Save’ and chose the Podcasts folder
as the destination. This box may look
different depending on which
browser you use.
This application icon will then appear in the
folder.
Download LAME Encoder
Audacity requires an add-on to create MP3
file called LAME encoder. This can be
downloaded from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-
distance-research-alliance/projects/impala1/documents/
resources-and-tools-for-creating-podcasts/audacity/newest-lame-
encoder/. This is a platform independent application.
When prompted select to save the file to the ‘Podcasts’ folder.
Now all the required applications have been downloaded.
InstallAudacity
Run the Audacity installer (.exe file)
downloaded previously. This will take
you through steps of; selecting the folder in which you would like to
install the software (usually Program Files) and also agreeing to the
Terms of Usage.
Recording in Audacity
Having installed Audacity, the
software is now ready to record your
podcast. This will require the use of
a microphone which may need
setting up in the Hardware and
Sound/Manage Audio Devices section of the Control Panel.
The recording of an audio track is quite self-explanatory: Press
record and speak, press stop when complete. There are other
editing features which you can explore.
Labelling your podcast
It is important to label a podcast
with metadata. This is used to
display the details of the podcast
on MP3 players and audio-playing
software (iTunes), including the
Title of the podcast and the name
of the ‘Artist’ or producer. Fill in as
many of the fields as you can, as it
will help you and anyone else trying to use the podcast later on.
Finish saving your podcast
After filling in the metadata you will be asked to locate lame_enc.dll. Select “Browse…” and locate the
lame_enc.dll file downloaded previously from your Podcasts folder. This process only needs to be done
once, you will not be asked on subsequent conversions.
Once the lame_enc.dll is located, you will be prompted to select where you want to save your podcast and
give it a file name. It’s recommended to store the podcast file in the Podcast folder.
Your podcast is now saved in .mp3 format. Make sure to also save your Audacity project as well, so you
have the option to edit it later, should you want to.
This completes the process of podcast recording.
Technologies for Creating Podcasts
After designing your podcasts the next step is to record before distributing it. Our objective here is to provide advice on
recording audio podcasts. A free open source software is adequate for this purpose. Audacity is commonly used software for
creating audio podcasts. It offers the capabilities needed to produce high quality podcasts. The steps related to how to record
and edit an audio podcast using Audacity software are described here.
Export to MP3
When you are happy with your recording it can be converted to a
MP3, this option is found from File Menu Export As MP3 in Audacity.
You will then be given a box to label your podcast with metadata.
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of Leicester. Palitha’s research, teaching and supervision interests lie in the conceptualisation of digital
technologies and their application to teaching and learning, within the UK and internationally. Palitha has
published on topics related to podcasting, mobile learning, virtual worlds, digital literacy and open and
distance education in developing countries. He conducts learning technology workshops for academic
staff, and has been involved in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs) for the University of
Leicester OER repository. Palitha leads the Post Graduate Certificate in Learning Technology programme
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  • 1. 1Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning Atopical start-up guide series on emerging topics on Educational Media and Technology
  • 2. 2 CEMCA EdTech Notes Introduction Podcasting originated as a technology to create and distribute personal “radio shows” via the internet. It is now becoming a technology used to support learning in many educational contexts, at least in more economically developed countries. A 2008 survey of learning technologies used in higher education institutions in the UK (Browne et al. 2008) showed that podcasting is a tool that has “increased significantly in prominence” in UK universities (p. 2). Increasing numbers of research papers published on podcasting indicate a growing interest from teachers, technologists and researchers in this field. Long before the invention of podcasting and its subsequent rise to popularity, educational benefits of audio presentation were identified in podcasting’s predecessors: radio, audio-cassettes and audio-vision. The content medium of most podcasting is recorded audio, which is not new in education. Durbridge (1984) at the Open University in the UK claimed that audio can influence cognition through clarity of instruction, conveying immediacy and encouraging a sense of connection between students and their teachers. Wood and Keeler (2001) reported that embedding short audio files recorded by tutors into emails helped to increase student participation in group activities, added a sense of online community and increased satisfaction with the overall learning experience. Re-incarnation of recorded audio as podcasts has made inroads into not only distance learning but also campus-based teaching and learning. Social and technological changes have increased the uptake of podcasting in formal learning contexts. Software for creating and distributing podcasts, and technical instructions on the use of such software and tools are freely available on the internet, making podcasting a “low threshold technology” (Ramsden, 2007). Significant numbers of students taking university courses own one or more devices capable of playing podcasts - varieties of digital devices that can playback music files as well as sound player software available on laptop computers and mobile phones. Pedagogical Podcasts In an early book on podcasting (Salmon & Edirisingha, 2008) we considered podcasts and podcasting as new practices that were still evolving. However, the technologies, tools and devices for creating, distributing and accessing podcasts have developed since then, and we cannot say that podcasts are a new form of technology anymore. We consider (Salmon & Edirisingha, 2008) podcasts: • as digital media files that plays sound, or sound and vision • are made available from a website • can be opened and/or downloaded and played on a computer • are downloaded from a website to be played on a portable digital player (such as a mobile phone or a dedicated player, such as an iPod or other brand of portable MP3 player). A pedagogical podcast is a media file that has been developed based on some kind of a pedagogical design, i.e., with an aim to achieve one or more learning objectives. We return to this learning design approach later in this EdTech Note. Technically speaking, what distinguishes podcasts from other digital media is that the technology that underpins podcasts enables digital media files to be delivered over the internet using syndication feeds. These feeds download podcasts automatically through a subscription service, to be played back in due time on a dedicated digital media player or a computer. The content is “automatically delivered to [a user’s] computer as soon as ‘new content’ is posted on the web” (BBC, 2005). Such a subscription-based access makes podcasts ‘a pull’ technology rather than a ‘push’ technology (automated) because the user does not have to seek and download new content manually (Campbell, 2005). While these technical approaches are helpful for delivering and accessing podcasts, we should try to follow Learning Pedagogical Podcasting for Introduction
  • 3. 3Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning approaches that are easier for the majority of teachers to use. We can make use of podcasting technology without the use of an automated distribution and access approach. Instead we can make podcasts and deliver them to our learners though a variety of available means, for example, by uploading to a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), other forms of websites, email, memory sticks, and CD-ROMs. Our focus here is the creation of podcasts using a sound learning design approach. Experience of the Use of Podcasts in Education The literature on podcasting demonstrates a wide variety of uses for podcasts in higher education as well as in other sectors of education. Geoghegan and Klass (2005) offered valuable advice on locating and downloading podcasts as well as “the secrets of creating podcasts”, including steps involved in recording, editing, encoding, and uploading podcasts to websites. Shamburg’s book (2009) entitled Student-Powered Podcasting is a practical guide for school teachers which argue for students’ active involvement in the planning and creation of podcasts. “Student-powered podcasting” is presented as an under explored genre of podcasting, an ideal approach to cultivate “powerful ideas” and taking students further down the road to 21st century literacy. The emphasis is on what students can potentially learn using podcasting technology as creators rather than as passive consumers of podcasts created by their teachers. This echoes Steventon’s (2012) ideas of an important distinction between ‘production’, where students become creators of teaching and learning material, and ‘consumption’ where they are simply the passive recipients of it. Sfard (1998) and Collis and Moonen (2002) refer to ‘contribution-oriented’ and ‘participation- oriented’ activities. The former has the greatest scope for embedding students in their learning through the generation of ideas and content. Podcasting has the potential for both. The educational benefits of podcasting have been demonstrated in many discipline areas of higher education. Pegrum, Bartle and Longnecker (2014), for example, examined whether podcasting can be used to promote deep approach to learning that result in active understanding of meaning and better learning outcomes. First-year chemistry undergraduate students were engaged in ‘collaboration, contextualisation of content, and communication through new media, especially creative podcasting’. The researchers concluded that “under some circumstances creative podcasting may … help to promote a deep learning approach” (p. 1). A second relevant example of the use of podcasts in university level education is that of Popova, Kirschner and Joiner (2014) who examined how students’ learning can be supported through ‘primer podcasts’ – i.e., podcasts that can help students to prepare for their forthcoming lectures. Their findings show that “audio advance organisers and questions experienced by students have a positive influence on learning, because they help students bridge the conceptual distance between new and prior knowledge, better understand the topics in the lectures and stimulate thinking more deeply about the lecture’s content and the possible applications of the subject of the lecture” (p. 330). A third relevant research project on podcasting is one carried out by Kay and Kletskinilona (2012) who examined the use of ‘Problem-based video podcasts’ in teaching mathematics in higher education. These podcasts offered “short, web- based, audio-visual explanations of how to solve specific procedural problems” (p. 619). The researchers created problem based video podcasts covering five key areas of mathematics as self-study tools and involved 288 university students to acquire pre-calculus skills over a three week period. The results indicated that “a majority of students used the video podcasts frequently, rated them as useful or very useful, viewed them as easy to use, effective learning tools, and reported significant knowledge gains in pre- calculus concepts” (p. 619). Studies on podcasting have been conducted in other areas of education too. For example, Tam (2012) reported the effectiveness of using podcasts for teaching music and visual arts in a teacher-education institution. Using a survey methodology with 128 students (Year 1 – Year 4) and focus groups with 24 students, the author found that the podcasts have been a useful technology that can supplement face-to- face teaching. Students preferred the podcasts that have been used for demonstrating procedures to those used to deliver lectures. These studies and a majority of reports in the literature on podcasting in education show positive benefits for learning, derived from the use of podcasts. In surveys and interviews, students
  • 4. 4 CEMCA EdTech Notes have reported that they value the flexibility offered by podcasts as well as the cognitive and motivational benefits obtained from listening to them. Incorporating Podcasts into Teaching and Learning Activities While the literature offers teachers plenty of examples of podcasting for teaching and learning, they may benefit further from having a conceptual framework of how podcasts can be integrated into the broader context of teaching, learning and assessment. Here we provide an overarching framework to aid teachers and learning support staff in considering how podcasting can be adapted to their own teaching and learning context, and in developing their own podcasts to improve practice within that context. Figure 1 illustrates our podcasting framework. It consists of a core and a periphery, showing teaching, learning and assessment activities. The framework’s core consists of the most common higher education teaching and learning activities, such as lectures, seminars, workshops, lab-work, field-work, working with the aid of a computer, student presentations and assessments. More could be added depending on the particular teaching and learning context and the activities that the teacher and students engage in. At the periphery are specific issues related to student learning in higher education. Within this framework, we (www.impala.ac.uk) provide some examples of how podcasts have been used, both to support core teaching and learning activities and to address issues related to student learning. The podcasting approaches reported here were generated through a research and development project called IMPALA (Informal Mobile Podcasting And Learning Adaptation, www.impala.ac.uk) at the University of Leicester. IMPALA examined how podcasts can bring the advantages of digital audio (both tutor- and student-generated) to facilitate learning in higher education. The research was carried out in five UK universities (Leicester, Nottingham, Kingston, Gloucestershire and Royal Veterinary College) across a range of disciplines: Chemistry, Engineering, English Language, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Genetics, Media and Communication, Physics, Sociology and Veterinary Sciences. IMPALA had its associate projects in Scotland (The University of Edinburgh), South Africa (The University of Cape Town); and Australia (Charles Sturt University and University of New England). Designing Pedagogical Podcasts Here we propose an 8-step framework for designing pedagogical podcasts (Fig. 2, adapted from Salmon and Edirisingha, 2008). Our focus here is the design and creation of audio podcasts. Step 1: Pedagogical rationale It is important to make the decision to use podcasts in teaching based on a sound rationale, i.e., a teaching and learning problem, a challenge or an issue that you have identified. Students will not be interested your podcasts if they can’t see the point of listening to them. Podcasts need to be linked to Figure 1: Integration of podcasts into teaching, learning and assessment activities Core Learning,Teaching and Student SupportActivities
  • 5. 5Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning your teaching and learning activities. Podcasts with a rationale behind them are also more likely to appeal to your academic colleagues and course team. A good starting point would be to list a number of learning outcomes for podcasts and consider how they are linked to the overall learning outcomes of the lesson and the module or the course. Step 2: Converging with other teaching and learning activities It is a good practice to integrate your podcasts with the rest of your teaching and learning provision and especially with other learning activities. The more the students see podcasts as part of the overall teaching and learning provision, the better motivated they will be to access and use them. Your students should not perceive your podcasts as added extras. Step 3:Authors and contributors Who contributes to podcasts depends on the purpose of the podcasts, and the challenge being addressed. There can be a number of broad categories of contributors: • teachers, instructors, tutors etc. • other experts in the field (e.g., practitioners from the industry, eminent researchers, teachers) • members of the local community • students on the course • students who have completed the course Step 4: Episoding Depending on your objectives, you need to choose the best way of structuring your podcasts and how frequently to deliver them. First, are you going to offer a single podcast or a series? If you are going to create a series of podcasts, will it be weekly, fortnightly or monthly? Will they be targeted on specific events (such as induction week), or aligned with assessment events such as examinations? It is good practice to consider these at the planning stage so your students know how many podcast they are going to receive and when to expect them. Step 5: Reuse and repurposing Developing podcasts, however enjoyable and useful for supporting student learning, has resource implications. Therefore it is important to consider the reusability of your podcasts, in their entirety or in part. Reusability can be achieved by planning to record your podcasts as small chunks and saving them as separate files with easily identifiable tags / labels. More on this under technology section. Step 6: Style Style, in this context, means the degree of formality adopted and the genre (e.g., interviews, discussions, perhaps a drama!) selected for your podcasts. The style of a podcast is important for several reasons. Most educational podcasts are audio for simplicity and usability. Therefore they need to be interesting to listen to as well as being informative, if they are to hold students’ attention. Although thetarget audience of your podcasts are a whole group / cohort of your students, very often they will be listening to your podcasts individually, not as a group. Therefore it is useful to bear in mind to speak as if you are talking to an individual student. Figure 2: An 8-step Podcast development framework
  • 6. 6 CEMCA EdTech Notes Conclusions and Implications for Teachers and Policy Makers The purpose of this document was to introduce what podcasts are and give an insight into how podcasts can be incorporated into teaching, learning and assessment activities. The growing literature on podcasting provides us with ample examples of approaches to using podcasting. The frameworks proposed here can help us to reflect on the bigger picture of teaching and learning activities that teachers and students carry out, both face-to-face and on location, and to select an approach that is most suitable to a recognised teaching and learning issue. Starting with a clear pedagogical rationale is critical for the success of an approach to podcasting. The podcasting approaches presented here share a common feature; they have all been developed to address a particular teaching and learning challenge. Research into the impact of these approaches has shown positive benefits to student learning. As the approaches described in this document demonstrated, you can involve not only teachers and subject experts, but also students and other stake-holders in the podcast development process. The content generated from and by students has helped students to learn generic learning and study skills, to alleviate study-related anxieties, and to develop reflective skills. Consider getting your students’ active participation in developing podcasts. VLE is the main delivery platform for all the podcasts described in this document, and research carried out on student use of podcasts showed that students were able to access and use them without technical issues. Therefore, we can confidently say that VLE- based podcast delivery works well for academic podcasts. If you use a subscription- based approach to deliver your podcasts, it is important to help students understand how they can subscribe to your podcasts in order to access them. Podcasting can support learning face-to-face, online and on location, and it can help students to learn both conceptual topics and practical subject matter. As this EdTech Note has outlined, many social and technical trends are working in favour of using podcasts for teaching and learning. So, please explore, experiment and report on your stories of podcasting for learning. Improving teaching and learning has been a long-standing concern in all levels of education (see for example, Laurillard, 2002; Biggs, 2003; Entwistle, 2009). Can podcasts really offer a fundamentally different approach to teaching and learning? Certainly the competencies of digital technologies and the scope of Internet delivery have improved exponentially in an incredibly short time span and there are no signs of this progress abating in the near future (Ellis and Goodyear, 2010). Riding on these technological developments, podcasts can offer a tool for academics to innovate their pedagogies. They are one of the simplest means of meeting some of the pedagogic challenges. Step 7: Framework ora plan Framework or a plan for each podcast is important for engaging your students and helping them to successfully learn. Unlike a text file, an audio file is limited in that we cannot glance at the whole document, or quickly scan it to get a sense of its content, to see how we wish to use it. It is important to provide a brief description at the beginning of the podcast what is going to be covered. This is normal practice in radio programmes, such as documentaries and current affairs, as well as in delivering lessons. Step 8: Access We touched on this aspect earlier in this document. While podcasts can be delivered to your students over the Internet using ‘push’ technologies (using syndication feeds), we need to make it easy for our students to access them. As we have mentioned earlier we can deliver podcasts though a variety of locally available means. Uploading podcasts to a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a commonly used method. Podcasts can also be emailed or distributed using memory sticks, and CD-ROMs.
  • 7. 7Pedagogical Podcasting for Learning Storing Podcast and Applications In the My Documents folder on you computer create a folder called ‘Podcasts’. This will be a good place to store all applications required and recordings you make. Creating Podcasts with Audacity (The first version of this guide was created by Simon Kear in 2012. It was revised byAdam Pryor in 2014) DownloadAudacity Visit http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ to download the version of Audacity you require for your operating system. There are also portable versions available online which do not require installing, and can be used from a memory stick. SaveAudacity At this stage of the download select ‘Save’ and chose the Podcasts folder as the destination. This box may look different depending on which browser you use. This application icon will then appear in the folder. Download LAME Encoder Audacity requires an add-on to create MP3 file called LAME encoder. This can be downloaded from http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond- distance-research-alliance/projects/impala1/documents/ resources-and-tools-for-creating-podcasts/audacity/newest-lame- encoder/. This is a platform independent application. When prompted select to save the file to the ‘Podcasts’ folder. Now all the required applications have been downloaded. InstallAudacity Run the Audacity installer (.exe file) downloaded previously. This will take you through steps of; selecting the folder in which you would like to install the software (usually Program Files) and also agreeing to the Terms of Usage. Recording in Audacity Having installed Audacity, the software is now ready to record your podcast. This will require the use of a microphone which may need setting up in the Hardware and Sound/Manage Audio Devices section of the Control Panel. The recording of an audio track is quite self-explanatory: Press record and speak, press stop when complete. There are other editing features which you can explore. Labelling your podcast It is important to label a podcast with metadata. This is used to display the details of the podcast on MP3 players and audio-playing software (iTunes), including the Title of the podcast and the name of the ‘Artist’ or producer. Fill in as many of the fields as you can, as it will help you and anyone else trying to use the podcast later on. Finish saving your podcast After filling in the metadata you will be asked to locate lame_enc.dll. Select “Browse…” and locate the lame_enc.dll file downloaded previously from your Podcasts folder. This process only needs to be done once, you will not be asked on subsequent conversions. Once the lame_enc.dll is located, you will be prompted to select where you want to save your podcast and give it a file name. It’s recommended to store the podcast file in the Podcast folder. Your podcast is now saved in .mp3 format. Make sure to also save your Audacity project as well, so you have the option to edit it later, should you want to. This completes the process of podcast recording. Technologies for Creating Podcasts After designing your podcasts the next step is to record before distributing it. Our objective here is to provide advice on recording audio podcasts. A free open source software is adequate for this purpose. Audacity is commonly used software for creating audio podcasts. It offers the capabilities needed to produce high quality podcasts. The steps related to how to record and edit an audio podcast using Audacity software are described here. Export to MP3 When you are happy with your recording it can be converted to a MP3, this option is found from File Menu Export As MP3 in Audacity. You will then be given a box to label your podcast with metadata.
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