Using podcasts in higher education has caught more and more attention among educators and researchers, but there is still a strong need for research and academic publications to focus on certain issues, such as the role of the learners. Instead of lecturers (teachers, scientists, and experts), learners (students, trainees or pupils) produce a podcast with a specific content called learner-creat...

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 sm...

This paper presents an experience of educational podcasting set up at the University of Bergamo (Italy), and derives from that experience some remarks upon the quality of podcasting services, in order to promote the definition of guidelines on podcasting quality. We discuss three main attributes of a podcasting environment: quality of the production environment (recording and editing), quality ...

With this paper we present a European Portuguese database of hesitations in speech. Under the name of HESITA, this database contains annotations of hesitation events, such as filled pauses, vocalic extensions, truncated words, repetitions and substitutions. The hesitations were found over 30 daily news programs collected from podcasts of a Portuguese television channel. The database also includ...

The authors have been involved in a year long project in which a group of second year undergraduate students is placed in charge of producing a series of educational podcasts targeted towards other students undertaking a number of information technology subjects. The exercise has proved to be a valuable learning experience for all those involved: the listeners, the producers and the educators. ...

The purpose of this paper was to explore research-based applications for using video podcasts in an online learning environment. Five key video podcast uses were examined including administration, instruction, student assignments, feedback, and community. Administrative video podcasts provide course information on areas such as learning goals, lesson plan instructions, course policies, and home...

Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston podcast Avoimella otteella alkoi ilmestyä syyskuussa 2022. Podcast tutustuttaa kuulijat avoimesti julkaistuihin tutkimuksiin sekä kanaviin, joissa tutkimuksia on maksuttomasti kenen tahansa saatavilla. Tässä jutussa podcastia kipparoiva tietoasiantuntija Aleksi Peura kertoo, kuinka sai alkunsa ja mitä tehdessä tullut opittua.