Teachers need to know new applications for developing online materials and then they should become aware of different ways to present them to online audience. This study tries to help ELT teachers to overcome challenges and difficulties of vodcasting by recognizing their social and biological motives (Activity Theory), and using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). It can alter teachers’ negative ...

Objective. To determine if a flipped classroom improved student examination performance in a pharmacotherapy oncology module. Design. Third-year pharmacy students in 2012 experienced the oncology module as interactive lectures with optional case studies as supplemental homework. In 2013, students experienced the same content in a primarily flipped classroom. Students were instructed to watch vo...

Introduction Both teacherand learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in ComputerAssisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews (Gromik, 2006; HansonSmith & Marzio, 2006), soap operas (Alm, 2006, 2008) or mini-documentaries (Brooke, 2003), creating storyboard projects (Hazzard, 2006), authoring podcasts and vodcasts (Stanley, 2006), designing digital...

BACKGROUND Technologies and techniques for knowledge translation are rapidly evolving and there is a need for graduate medical education (GME) curricula to keep up with these advances to reach our learners in an effective manner. Technologies such as blogs, microblogs, wikis, podcasts, and vodcasts have the potential to expand upon the current didactic models by adding dimensions and engaging l...

With the rapid development of wireless networks and mobile technologies and the increasing adoption of mobile learning, the need for ‘anywhere, anytime and any device’ access to information becomes more evident. This has influenced the design of learning objects. The small but developing literature on vodcasting indicates its potential as an effective learning resource for use in education. Thi...