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 Vodcasts (video podcasts) are becoming increasingly popular in medical education. At A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (ATSU SOMA), vodcasts are an essential component of our blended learning environment, where year 2-4 students train in a contextual setting at community health centers across the U.S. Vodcasts are used far less frequently in our year 1 r...

We begin with the premise that pod/vodcasts add an engaging and innovative mix to the university learning environment; they put the control of when and where to access information in the hands of the student and can be delivered through the university’s learning management system (LMS). In this paper, we describe a semester-long trial in which library pod/vodcasts were provided to first-year te...

The popularity of sites like YouTube demonstrates the potential preference for users to use video podcasts (vodcasts) as an instructional tool. As educators have been encouraged to become more literate in authoring Web 2.0 technologies, the implementation of vodcasts as an effective pedagogy has been increasingly used in educational settings. The recent proliferation of distance education cours...

Although use of podcasts and vodcasts are increasingly becoming popular in higher education, their use is usually unidirectional and therefore replicates the transmission mode of traditional face-to-face lectures. In this paper, the authors propose a tool, MOBILect, a mobile lecturing tool that enables users to comment on lecture vodcasts using mobile devices, and aggregated comments become an ...

S: POSTERS Dr Carmel Coady and Dr Leanne Rylands, University of Western SydneyThe Use of Reflective Journals in a First Year Mathematics Unit For many years society at large has proudly commented that ‘maths was my worst subject at school’. This statementwas then usually followed by some explanation of why this was so, for example, ‘numbers scare me’ or ‘I just freezewhen doing a te...

<p><span lang="EN-US">The COVID-19 pandemic challenged instructional methods of teaching and learning in universities around the world. To bridge this gap, many opted for use digital technological innovations to reach students. Despite implementation these innovations, higher education institutions were not fully prepared ready online during pandemic. Researchers have argued that po...

ELT online materials development, which is a multifaceted multidisciplinary area, is not welcomed by many teachers, because it is demanding, challenging and confusing. They fear facing new technologies in their teaching sessions to avoid failing or being caught by other audiences. Furthermore, they struggle hard in evaluating their pod/vodcasts. In order to remove the fears and barriers, ...