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Podcasts for teaching and learning: Students experiences from different disciplines
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, University of South Africa, South Africa

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, in Las Vegas, NV, USA ISBN 978-1-939797-05-6 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), San Diego, CA

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Abstract The diverse use for and benefits of podcasts have been noted and recorded and the benefits spread among the teaching and students alike. Many institutions of higher learning have acknowledged the need for this technology, among them Unisa where it was mentioned at a Senate Tuition and Learner Support (STLSC) meeting on 31 January 2011. The need for moving from paper to online delivery was discussed. New technologies including podcasts were recommended for implementation (UNISA, 2011).Podcasts were deployed in several disciplines in the Open and distance Learning programme (ODL) at Unisa. The study focused on two disciplines at Unisa, namely Education and Economic and Management Sciences. In the education college podcasting was used for the Research Proposal writing module and in the Economics and Management sciences college, a podcasts were used for the Financial Accounting module. Podcasts were recorded to support teaching and learning. In Financial Accounting module podcasts were used to welcome students and to give the students general overview of the module and assessment feedback. In research writing module it was used to provide mini lessons regarding writing of a research proposal. The study therefore aims to investigate student’s experiences of podcast-supported learning in an Open Distance Learning environment. Individual experiences with podcasts may be different and create difference regarding the applicability of the method to all disciplines. The study therefore sought to determine whether the students’ experiences, in the two different disciplines, when using podcasts were sufficient to warrant the full deployment of this method. The survey comprised three questions 1) Did you listen to the podcast? 2) What did you like about the podcast? and 3) What did you not like about the podcasts? A sample of 60 students was used. The collected data was analysed and the study showed that except for divergence in the number of students who were able to listen to the podcasts, the experiences were the same

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Madiope, M. (2013). Podcasts for teaching and learning: Students experiences from different disciplines. In T. Bastiaens & G. Marks (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2013--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 851-861). Las Vegas, NV, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 10, 2024 from .

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