Transcript Draft poster for staff conference 23rd June

Using Podcasts to Enhance
Student Learning and Support
Colin Gray
Academic Development Adviser
& Associate Lecturer
Office of the Vice Principal (Academic)
November 2011
Why we used podcasts
• To offer “just in time” support /
teaching / advice
• To enhance research – teaching
linkages
• Enhance mobile learning
opportunity
• Help with revision
• Listening to podcasts can help
language skills for international
students
When we have used podcasting
• University/Programme level
– Student support
• Module level
– Weekly Updates
– Input from guest experts
– Feedback (audio files…)
– Delivery of lecturers
• A portfolio of podcast sites were
developed for students at Edinburgh
Napier following on from the success
of the pilot Edinburgh Napier Podcast
project funded by a Teaching
Fellowship Grant.
• all new first year students:
http://edinburghnapier.podbean.com/
• all direct entrants from college:
http://college2uni.podbean.com/
Welcome to
Edinburgh
Napier
University
Get ready for
University
study
Academic
writing
Exam tips &
study skills
Specific needs
& learning
support
Sports &
Societies
What is a PDT?
Settling in
socially
Differences
between
college and Uni
Modular level podcasting:
Enhancing teaching-research linkages
Feedback from students
Feedback from students
"After listening to this
podcast I have been able
to relate the subject
matter to my current
studies as a third year
mental health student.
Evidence based research
is the very cornerstone in
understanding,
improvements in health
care to nursing practice in
benefiting people within
our care”.
"I’ve found this
interview very
helpful to make it a
little bit more clear
to me, why
Evidence-Based
Practice it’s
essential as nurses
and how it is
achieved."
Clinical
practice
Podcasts by
researchers on
clinical practice
issues, linking
research theory
and practice for
student learning
Research
theory
Researchers
of nursing
References: SHEEC, (2010) Enhancement Themes: Research-Teaching Linkages, Enhancing Graduate Attributes. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Available
at: http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/themes/ResearchTeaching/default.asp
Vogt, M., Schaffner, B., Ribar, A., and Chavez, R., (2009) The Impact of podcasting on the learning and satisfaction of undergraduate nursing students. Nurse Education in
Practice. 10 (1) p38–42
Summary
• Podcasts can be a useful addition to your portfolio of teaching
approaches,
• Podcasts offer flexibility to students in terms of learning,
• The use of podcasting must be pedagogically informed
Additional Resources:
• Podcasting guide in LTA Resource bank http://staff.napier.ac.uk/LTA
• Case studies in LTA Resource Bank
http://www.thepodcasthost.com/ltapodcasts/
Your Mission
1 to 3 minute feature, plus a 10 to 20 second introduction script
•Watercooler Conversations
•Chat around a topic of interest
•News Bulletin
•The Student Voice
•eg. what will they think about
podcasting?
•Staff Views
•eg. Likely pros and cons for staff
around podcasting
•What’s going on out there?
•eg. Places you’ve heard of using
podcasting
•Conferences
•Have you seen any recent publications
or workshops on podcasting?
•60 second interviews
•Interview someone around their
experience.