This paper reports work-in-progress of a UK national study called IMPALA investigating the impact of podcasting on student learning in higher education. It presents an outline of the project implementation, initial perspectives from the pilot study and evolving models for using podcasts for specific pedagogical purposes. Data from the Semester 1 podcasts are being analysed and results will be r...

Podcasting is a special approach to distribute multimedia (usually audio files) over the internet. Users can subscribe to a particular podcast which is then delivered automatically for replay on their mobile devices (MP3 players, laptops) or desktop computers. Podcasts are not restricted to pure audio files but also include slide shows with synchronized audio replay and video files for mobile m...

When evaluating any new medium or technology we often turn to the familiar as a point of reference. Podcasting was no different, drawing obvious comparisons with radio. While there are traits within all podcasts that are radiogenic, one must also consider whether such distinctions are beneficial to the medium. Indeed, one might argue that when one considers the manner in which podcasts are crea...

In this paper, we describe a public web service, “PodCastle”, that provides full-text searching of Japanese podcasts on the basis of automatic speech recognition. This is an instance of our research approach, “Speech Recognition Research 2.0”, which is aimed at providing users with a web service based on Web 2.0 so that they can experience state-of-the-art speech recognition performance, and at...

Video podcasts, or vodcasts, are an innovative tool for teaching and learning that allow the efficient distribution of tutorials, lectures, and other educational content. Certain types of content lend themselves to presentation in a video format. For example, vodcasts are well suited to teaching radiologic procedures. Vodcasts might also be quite useful in demonstrating the use of an audience r...

BACKGROUND Information technology is finding an increasing role in the training of medical students. We compared information recall and student experience and preference after live lectures and video podcasts in undergraduate medical education. METHODS We performed a crossover randomised controlled trial. 100 students were randomised to live lecture or video podcast for one clinical topic. Li...

In this paper, we describe a public web service, “PodCastle”, that provides full-text searching of Japanese podcasts on the basis of automatic speech recognition. This is an instance of our research approach, “Speech Recognition Research 2.0”, which is aimed at providing users with a web service based on Web 2.0 so that they can experience state-of-the-art speech recognition performance, and at...

In the United States alone, millions of listeners tune in to Internet-based audio­ on-demand (commonly known as podcast programming). Religious programming is among the fastest-growing podcast areas. Since studies show that evangelicals are known to be quick to adopt new technology, this research involved a content analysis of 67 podcast episodes produced by five well-known renewalist evangeli­...

Podcasts sind eine vieldiskutierte Möglichkeit kostengünstig Veranstaltungsaufzeichnungen zu erstellen und zu publizieren, und bieten somit potentiell vielen Personen die Möglichkeit zum mobilen Lernen. Im vorliegenden Artikel werden die bisherigen Erfahrungen zweier deutscher Hochschulen mit Veranstaltungspodcasts sowie die Ergebnisse von Befragungen studentischer (N=58) und hochschulexterner ...

While preceptors are a vital link in student nurse practice education, ongoing support beyond an initial orientation is often lacking. It has been reported in the literature that preceptors experience stress related to difficulties in handling preceptee situations. They are frustrated by negative experiences centered on preceptor-identified hallmarks of unsafe practice including the inability t...