Video Podcasts as a Micro Learning Tool in a Blended Learning Environment

Today, we are emerging in an electronic society, where the learning is not limited to traditional, face to face approach of instruction only. Educators and learners can get the benefit of electronic technology for teaching and learning, with in a blended learning environment. Micro learning is a new learning technique used in education, for the delivery of the content in small parts, through small steps. This research has discovered the effect of Video Podcasts as a Micro Learning tool on instruction with in a blended learning environment. Participants were divided in two Groups, ‘A’ and ‘B’, and had attended an I.T. course that was additionally supported with Video Podcasts. Video Podcasts of less than four [4] minutes were recorded and made available to the participants of group ‘A’. The effects of Video Podcasts as a Micro Learning tool had been compared on these two groups through comparing their exam results. Moreover, the participants of Group ‘A’ were studied for two stages, ‘Before’ and ‘After’ the use of Video Podcasts, and their responses were taken for these two stages, regarding students attitude toward Video Podcasts as a Micro Learning tool within a blended learning environment for seven dependent variables. Comparisons had been made on the basis of collected responses for ‘Before’ and ‘After’ stages.