A review of podcasting in higher education: Its influence on the traditional lecture
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paper_title: Improving Student Learning During Lectures

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Despite moves away from teacher-centred methods towards more independent student-centred learning, resource pressures will continue to require the use of large lecture classes. Instead of examining the behaviour of the lecturer in order to improve the limited efficiency of lectures, attention is focussed on what students can do during lectures to improve their learning. Five techniques are described to improve student learning during lectures: (i) improving student note-taking and attention by separating listening from recording, and requiring the note-taking to be undertaken from memory; (ii) improving student learning through active review during the lecture; (iii) involving students in structured discussions even in very large classes by using ‘pyramidding’; (iv) checking on student learning by using ‘instant questionnaires’ and (v) checking on student learning by asking them to summarise the ‘three most important things’ about the lecture. These techniques are drawn from two of a series of books entit...
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paper_title: 'Perpetual Connectivity': Lecture Recordings and Portable Media Players

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Using portable media players to enhance and support teaching and learning activities in higher education is becoming an increasingly common practice. With a growing understanding of the pedagogical possibilities of podcasting, the availability of low-cost MP3 players and the arrival of convenient delivery environments such as Apple’s iTunes U, many universities are considering how to appropriately harness this technology to support their teaching priorities and the learning needs of their students.
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paper_title: Lecture absenteeism among students in higher education: a valuable route to understanding student motivation

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The reasons associated with lecture absenteeism among student groups could shed significant light on student motivation levels and orientations in university settings. Paying attention to the rationales for lecture absence provided by students themselves could also help institutions to diagnose levels of student engagement and respond in appropriate ways. This study demonstrates these assertions by engaging in a critical analysis of the evidence linking lecture attendance and academic performance, using a qualitative analysis of student accounts of their absenteeism. It argues that innovative approaches to higher education would benefit from the extension and development of this kind of inquiry.
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paper_title: Lecturing : Case Studies, Experience and Practice

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18 practical case-study based chapters. The book is organized with sections focussing in turn on developing lecturing skills in one of the following areas: - Promoting student learning - Motivating the student - Encouraging interaction - Accommodating differing learning styles - Controlling the teaching space and process.
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paper_title: Lecture note-taking, learning and recall.

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Note-taking by students is generally seen as an integral and essential part of the process of learning from lectures. Here we review the literature on the efficiency of students' note-taking and the extent to which they actually learn as a direct or an indirect result of taking notes. Attention is also paid to the relevance of research in this area to modern lecturing practice and to the problems of researching in the area.
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paper_title: Engaging undergraduates with podcasting in a business subject

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This study is based on an investigation into the implications of the use of talkback radiostyle podcasts in a final year business subject. The authors contend that face-to-face teaching can be supplemented by such podcasts and prove to be a valuable learning experience among these undergraduate students. Beginning with the objectives of the study, the paper continues with a description of the research methodology before addressing the findings derived from a questionnaire over a semester of podcasting efforts. It concludes with suggestions for other business educators interested in undertaking similar efforts with the intention of contributing towards best practice in the field of academic podcasting.
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paper_title: Pervasive, Lifestyle-Integrated Mobile Learning for Distance Learners: An Analysis and Unexpected Results from a Podcasting Study

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This article opens with a discussion of how and why mobile learning (m‐learning) is purported to be the next step in the evolution of distance education, before looking at various perspectives on what m‐learning constitutes. It critically examines the degree to which ‘true’ m‐learning has been achieved, by offering pedagogical value beyond the mere use of mobile devices to deliver e‐learning content. The authors argue that podcasting, in combination with a variety of portable MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)‐capable devices that are increasingly ubiquitous, can be used to deliver a form of m‐learning that offers a higher degree of lifestyle integration than many current ‘state of the art’ m‐learning applications, despite not being as technically complex. They present an example of a study in which podcasting was used to deliver supplementary listening material to distance learners undertaking an information technology subject. An end‐of‐semester survey yielded extremely positive feedback about uptake levels and the per...
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paper_title: Audio and video podcasts of lectures for campus‐based students: production and evaluation of student use

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Podcasting has become a popular medium for accessing and assimilating information and podcasts are increasingly being used to deliver audio recordings of lectures to campus‐based students. This paper describes a simple, cost‐effective and file size‐efficient method for producing video podcasts combining lecture slides and audio without a requirement for any specialist software. The results from a pilot scheme delivering supplementary lecture materials as audio and video podcasts are also presented, including data on download patterns and responses to a survey of students on podcast use. These results reveal students’ enthusiasm for podcast recordings of lecture materials and their primary use by students in revision and preparation for assessments. Survey responses also suggest little likely impact on lecture attendance as a consequence of podcasting, but indicate that podcast recordings of lectures may not be effective in facilitating mobile learning.
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paper_title: 'Perpetual Connectivity': Lecture Recordings and Portable Media Players

paper_content:

Using portable media players to enhance and support teaching and learning activities in higher education is becoming an increasingly common practice. With a growing understanding of the pedagogical possibilities of podcasting, the availability of low-cost MP3 players and the arrival of convenient delivery environments such as Apple’s iTunes U, many universities are considering how to appropriately harness this technology to support their teaching priorities and the learning needs of their students.
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paper_title: Educational usages of podcasting

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The article focuses on the usefulness of podcasting in educational development in Great Britain. The portable MP3/MP4 podcasting device is commonly used in the educational system in the country to enhance not only their instructional practice but also to improve student social learning. It cites that podcasting has four common usages in education such as teaching, service, marketing and technology. Podcasting is recognized as an efficient educational technology that can easily downloaded to the desktop computer as well as other mobile devices. It concludes that podcasting offer long-term effect for distance education and develop knowledge culture sharing and interdisciplinary improvement.
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paper_title: Audio and video podcasts of lectures for campus‐based students: production and evaluation of student use

paper_content:

Podcasting has become a popular medium for accessing and assimilating information and podcasts are increasingly being used to deliver audio recordings of lectures to campus‐based students. This paper describes a simple, cost‐effective and file size‐efficient method for producing video podcasts combining lecture slides and audio without a requirement for any specialist software. The results from a pilot scheme delivering supplementary lecture materials as audio and video podcasts are also presented, including data on download patterns and responses to a survey of students on podcast use. These results reveal students’ enthusiasm for podcast recordings of lecture materials and their primary use by students in revision and preparation for assessments. Survey responses also suggest little likely impact on lecture attendance as a consequence of podcasting, but indicate that podcast recordings of lectures may not be effective in facilitating mobile learning.
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paper_title: Creative use of podcasting in higher education and its effect on competitive agency

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This paper describes an academic experience of podcasting, which involved a group of students of a course on multimedia communication and human-computer interaction. These students acted both as users of the university's podcasting service, and as creators of podcasted lessons. A comprehensive analysis based on the evaluation of the effects on student performance, on data from student satisfaction surveys, from interviews and from instructors' observations provided encouraging results: Full-time students co-involved in lessons' podcasting outperformed colleagues of the previous years and achieved higher levels of what we define as competitive agency, that led them to better understand the theoretical issues of the course and to more effective practical skills.
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paper_title: Pervasive, Lifestyle-Integrated Mobile Learning for Distance Learners: An Analysis and Unexpected Results from a Podcasting Study

paper_content:

This article opens with a discussion of how and why mobile learning (m‐learning) is purported to be the next step in the evolution of distance education, before looking at various perspectives on what m‐learning constitutes. It critically examines the degree to which ‘true’ m‐learning has been achieved, by offering pedagogical value beyond the mere use of mobile devices to deliver e‐learning content. The authors argue that podcasting, in combination with a variety of portable MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)‐capable devices that are increasingly ubiquitous, can be used to deliver a form of m‐learning that offers a higher degree of lifestyle integration than many current ‘state of the art’ m‐learning applications, despite not being as technically complex. They present an example of a study in which podcasting was used to deliver supplementary listening material to distance learners undertaking an information technology subject. An end‐of‐semester survey yielded extremely positive feedback about uptake levels and the per...
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paper_title: Pervasive, Lifestyle-Integrated Mobile Learning for Distance Learners: An Analysis and Unexpected Results from a Podcasting Study

paper_content:

This article opens with a discussion of how and why mobile learning (m‐learning) is purported to be the next step in the evolution of distance education, before looking at various perspectives on what m‐learning constitutes. It critically examines the degree to which ‘true’ m‐learning has been achieved, by offering pedagogical value beyond the mere use of mobile devices to deliver e‐learning content. The authors argue that podcasting, in combination with a variety of portable MPEG Layer 3 (MP3)‐capable devices that are increasingly ubiquitous, can be used to deliver a form of m‐learning that offers a higher degree of lifestyle integration than many current ‘state of the art’ m‐learning applications, despite not being as technically complex. They present an example of a study in which podcasting was used to deliver supplementary listening material to distance learners undertaking an information technology subject. An end‐of‐semester survey yielded extremely positive feedback about uptake levels and the per...
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paper_title: Lecture absenteeism among students in higher education: a valuable route to understanding student motivation

paper_content:

The reasons associated with lecture absenteeism among student groups could shed significant light on student motivation levels and orientations in university settings. Paying attention to the rationales for lecture absence provided by students themselves could also help institutions to diagnose levels of student engagement and respond in appropriate ways. This study demonstrates these assertions by engaging in a critical analysis of the evidence linking lecture attendance and academic performance, using a qualitative analysis of student accounts of their absenteeism. It argues that innovative approaches to higher education would benefit from the extension and development of this kind of inquiry.
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paper_title: Talk the talk: Learner‐generated podcasts as catalysts for knowledge creation

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Podcasting allows audio content from one or more user-selected feeds or channels to be automatically downloaded to one's computer as it becomes available, then later transferred to a portable player for consumption at a convenient time and place. It is enjoying phenomenal growth in mainstream society, alongside other Web 2.0 technologies that enable Internet users to author and distribute rich media content quickly and easily. Instead of using the technology for the mere recording and dissemination of lectures and other instructor-centred information, the project reported on in this article focused on enabling students to create their own podcasts for distribution to their peers. The article describes how engaging in the podcasting exercise promoted collaborative knowledge building among the student-producers, as evidenced through focus-group interviewing and an analysis of the products of their shared dialogue and reflection. The findings suggest that the collaborative development of audio learning objects enabling student conceptualisations of disciplinary content to be shared with peers is a powerful way of stimulating both individual and collective learning, as well as supporting social processes of perspective-taking and negotiation of meaning that underpin knowledge creation.
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Title: A review of podcasting in higher education: Its influence on the traditional lecture

Section 1: Introduction
Description 1: Introduce the concept of podcasting, its growth in higher education, and the key questions to be explored in the paper.

Section 2: Recent interest in podcasting and its proposed benefits
Description 2: Discuss the benefits of podcasting, including increasing flexibility, accessibility, and enhancing student learning.

Section 3: Increasing flexibility
Description 3: Explain how podcasting increases the flexibility of learning by allowing students to access materials in their own time and place.

Section 4: Increasing accessibility
Description 4: Highlight the role of podcasting in facilitating mobile or m-learning by enabling access to course materials on portable devices.

Section 5: Enhancing learning
Description 5: Describe how podcasting is used in on-campus courses to enhance learning, including providing supplementary lecture materials and enabling review and revision.

Section 6: Reviewing the literature on podcasting
Description 6: Review existing studies and research on the use of podcasting in education, summarizing various findings and insights.

Section 7: Issues emerging from the review of literature
Description 7: Discuss the key issues highlighted by the research review, including educational uses, limitations, and the influence of podcasting on traditional lectures.

Section 8: What are its educational uses in teaching and learning in higher education?
Description 8: Explore the different educational applications of podcasting, from substitutive to creative uses, and how they impact teaching and learning.

Section 9: In what ways will podcasting influence the traditional lecture?
Description 9: Analyze how podcasting could affect traditional lectures, including potential impacts on attendance and student preferences.

Section 10: Conclusion
Description 10: Summarize the potential of podcasting to enhance learning, its limitations, and provide recommendations for its future use in education.