Audio technology such as podcasting may be an efficient tool to improve oral proficiency by exposing learners to more authentic input (e.g., listening to podcasts) and by giving them opportunities to produce substantially more output (e.g., creating podcasts). Combined with self-evaluation activities, voice recording technology can also contribute to metacognitive awareness, i.e., “the ability ...

Podcasts are increasingly being used for medical education, both within teaching institutions and on an international scale by major journals. To date, there are no evidence-based guidelines for the development of educational podcasts. To review the state of the literature, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, and ERIC were searched in May 2016 for articles describing audio format podcasts used in medical educatio...

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...

This article focuses on the podcasts in learning media space. Modern educational technologies and Internet resources have significantly expanded possibilities of organizing process a foreign language. Podcasts as an innovative tool are effective way building socio-cultural communicative skills. audio or video materials prepared by native speakers that freely available Internet, for download reu...

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...

Given its reputation for innovative broadcast communications, it is not surprising that the BBC has adopted a considered approach to e-learning. This case study concentrates on the production of an online course on 'Editorial Policy' and demonstrates their comprehensive approach to e-learning. However those involved in e-learning at the BBC emphasise that they have developed their thinking over...

The BBC has a rich collection of learning resources. The Knowledge and Learning website Beta aims to unlock the learning potential of this content for its users. To this purpose, the system employs semantic web technologies to organise the available learning resources. In this paper we describe the core data model that underlies the Knowledge and Learning website Beta. The Curriculum Ontology f...