IMPALA Informal Mobile Podcasting and Learning Adaptation

Impala Podcasts

Podcasting to prepare students for face-to-face sessions
Gillian Young and Tracy Simmons

Face to face sessions such as workshops and seminars are key part of teaching and learning activities in higher education. Prior preparation for such events can help students to make the best use of limited face-to-face contact at these events. This is an example of a podcast to prepare students for face-to-face sessions such as seminars.
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Podcasts for integrating online learning activities through podcasts
John Fothergill

This podcasts provides example of an approach to using podcasts to support students who carry out a significant portion of their studies online. Although students enrolled in campus-based institutions generally carry out their studies through face-to-face methods such as lectures and seminars, the wider penetration of virtual learning environments offer the potential to deliver some of the learning content on-line offering the students the flexibility of learning at a pace, time and locations suitable to their circumstances. These podcasts were developed to support the online learning of campus based students enrolled in an undergraduate module in Engineering.
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Podcasting for developing students’ study skills during the first year at university
Libby Rothwell

This is an example of a podcast used within an undergraduate module on English Language and Communication. These podcasts were used to develop students’ study skills during the first year of undergraduate study.
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Exploitation of existing teaching and learning resources through podcasts
Raymond Macharia, Kim Whittlestone and Nick Short

Certain academic institutions, especially those with a long history of teaching university education already have collections of physical resources, specimens and other forms of artifacts that are constantly used as learning resources. Some of these inanimate objects may not be self explanatory, such as exemplar dissections of biological organs and tissue. Podcast technology can be used to develop self-explanatory learning objects out of these artifacts which can reduce demand on staff time in a higher education context where staff are having to cope with large cohort of students and competing demands for their time. This podcast demonstrates an approach to using podcast technology to develop learning resources to exploit existing anatomical specimens at a veterinary faculty.
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