In this podcast, we talk to Professor Richard Legro about the recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) based on clinical practice guidelines and discuss the challenges of diagnosis PCOS at specific age groups. The controversies associated with treatment of PCOS, including therapies for infertility as this is a problem commonly observed in PCOS subjects...

Educators have started incorporating iPods for academic purposes and a growing interest exists in using podcasting as an educational tool. However, it remains uncertain whether podcasting will hit the critical mass and become an indispensable teaching tool for the classroom. In this regard, it is critical to evaluate the adoption experience of the faculty and identify the benefits and challenge...

We are well into the twenty-first century, and our technology is advancing at blazing speeds. Yet our education methodologies suffer the fate of remaining largely antiquated. Students and educators alike have become more sophisticated; the tools of learning must reflect and compensate for this intellectual advancement. Podcasts have greatly contributed towards that need. Podcasts are simple, ef...

The purpose of the following study was to develop a comprehensive, theory-based framework for creating instructional video podcasts designed to present worked examples. Sixteen design characteristics, organized according to four categories (establishing context, providing effective explanations, minimizing cognitive load, and engaging students), were used to develop 59 pre-calculus videos for 8...

Podcasting is a growing trend in higher education, and this chapter reviews the most common applications for podcasting in higher education and the current literature on its impact on student learning. Although many educators question whether podcasting creates an effective active learning environment, institutional research data from Georgia College & State University indicate that podcasting ...

The paper took a semi-grounded theory approach to develop a comprehensive framework of critical factors in adopting podcasting for educational use and showed how these critical adoption factors differ for two groups of users: faculty and students. The paper is theory-rich as it was based on synthesized technology adoption models (i.e., TAM3 and UTAUT) and yet uncovered new adoption determinants...

This paper reports the use of podcasts in blended-learning at the University of Minho, in Portugal. Six lecturers created their own podcasts with different purposes in order to support their undergraduate and graduate courses and their students’ (n=318) learning. The reported study belongs to a broader project about the impact of podcasts in blended-learning and it reports data from two semeste...

Nowadays the main learning resources are traditional board, slides and video podcasts. Each of them with their own strengths and weaknesses. Analysing the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional board and slides we have created, with the advantages of both resources, a new concept that we have named “minimalist slides”. Using the minimalist slides we have introduced a new type of video ...

Introduction Podcasts have become increasingly popular as a medium for free open access medical education (FOAM). However, little research has examined the use of these extracurricular audio podcasts as tools in undergraduate medical education. We aimed to examine knowledge retention, usage conditions, and preferences of undergraduate medical students at a Canadian university interacting with e...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...