EducationGuardian.co.uk - A soundtrack for study

An article surveying the ways that podcasting is being used in US academia and the types of transformations it is fostering.

Universities in America and Canada are beginning to integrate the technology into coursework as well as using it as a method of communication with each other and the outside world.

One lecturer makes the point, however, that you can't just record regular lectures and make them available as podcasts:

"Podcasting is neat in the sense that it offers the chance to be a push technology," he says. "The podcasts just arrive on the students' machines without them having to go looking for them. Of course they still have to make the choice to listen to them."

"That's where technology ends and pedagogy comes in. You have to give some though (sic) about how you integrate the podcasts into the course."

Link: EducationGuardian.co.uk | Worldwide | A soundtrack for study