Adapting podcasting approaches to enable student-staff

interaction

Stephen Gomez & Chris Lush

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol BS16 1QY

stephen.gomez@uwe.ac.uk

Problems with podcasting Uni-directional transmission of information

from producer to consumer Little opportunity for author & learner to

interact Author loses control over the podcasted

material Recipient can redistribute it without author’s

consent, for example put it on You Tube File can be altered & redistributed Students have a tendency to ‘file’ the file Difficult to ensure that the learner has the

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Video pod files

Playlists

Tutor to learner & peer to peer learning