BACKGROUND Podcasts are increasingly being used in medical education. In this study, we conducted a survey of Canadian anesthesia residents to better delineate the content needs, format preferences, and usage patterns among anesthesia residents. METHODS 10/16 Canadian anesthesia program directors, representing 443/659 Canadian anesthesia residents, allowed their residents to be included in th...

Most news organizations provide immediate access to topical news broadcasts through RSS streams or podcasts. Until recently, applications have not permitted a user to perform content based search within a longer spoken broadcast to find the segment that might interest them. Recent progress in both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) has produced robust tools...

For centuries, didactic teaching sections have occupied a large proportion of the available teaching-learning time in medical courses. This form of teaching has relied heavily on professors disseminating information through lectures and students passively absorbing knowledge for a majority of the class period. The extensive use of traditional lectures limits students’ time to actively learn, sy...

Podcasts used as supplemental material (PSM) and podcasts integrated into the curriculum (PIC) are complementing, extending, and transforming the traditional face-to-face classroom as well as blended and online courses. This paper examines podcast download frequency among students in foreign language and literature courses over a four-year period by using both students’ digital literacy skills ...

Despite their increased functional load and widespread usage, no West African Pidgin English (WAPE) variety enjoys official recognition. In 2017, the BBC launched a news service targeting audience through its World Service branch in Nigeria. Now that WAPE is being promoted by BBC, it remains to be known what attitudes speakers of varieties hold towards general particular. This study investigate...

In this work, Portuguese, Polish, English, Urdu, and Arabic automatic speech recognition evaluation systems developed by the RWTH Aachen University are presented. Our LVCSR systems focus on various domains like broadcast news, spontaneous speech, and podcasts. All these systems but Urdu are used for Euronews and Skynews evaluations as part of the EUBridge project. Our previously developed LVCSR...

Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States. One hundred and ninety-one students completed a modified version of the Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (Keller, 2006); it has four subsca...