Enhancing the Learning Experience through Faculty and Student Created Podcasts

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Enhancing the Learning Experience through Faculty
and Student Created Podcasts

• Mathematics Faculty Math Education
  Students
• Rebecca LeDocq Kelly Holmstead
• Jennifer Kosiak Maren Lau
• Robert Hoar Kristin Radermacher

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What is a Podcast?

• Digital media by which a user can watch and
  listen to audio on a computer.
• ChalkTalk
• Coursecast
• Profcast

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Outline of Working Session

• Podcasts in Higher Education
• Podcasting 101
• Hardware and Software
• Activity I What will I say?
• Activity II How do I make a podcast?
• Participant Discussion
• Next Steps

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Podcasts in Higher Education

• Supplementary course materials, class notes, and
  examples
• Remedial or refresher lessons
• How-to-Tutorials
• Samples of student work

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Why Podcast?

• Faculty Point of View
• Innovative Technology
• Numerous Student Benefits
• Clarify misconceptions
• Reinforce key skills
• Enhance understanding of key concepts
• See alternative perspective (solution strategies)
• Free class time for inquiry-based activities
• Promote critical thinking

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Why Podcast?

• Student Point of View
• Provide introduction to material
• Organize weekly activities/lessons
• Support independent learning
• Anytime/anywhere access
• Enable deeper engagement than with notes
• Develop more positive attitude toward instruction

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Student Feedback

• I used the Podcast in my prep for the upcoming
  exam. It is a wonderful review and basically is
  more class time outside of class. I love the
  podcast!
• I used the Quiz Solution Podcasts this week by
  first viewing my quiz and how I worked through
  the problems, then I viewed how Dr. Hoar worked
  through the problems and noted any significant
  moves toward completing the problems with which I
  struggled.
• At first, I just watched and listened. Then, the
  second time around I compared the way Dr. Hoar
  solved the problem to the way I did and saw where
  I made some of my mistakes.
• I moved the cursor along without sound so I could
  track the steps I took with the steps Dr. Hoar
  took while he worked it out. If I didn't
  understand what he did, I put the sound on.

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Survey Results
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Why Student-Generated Podcasts?

• Collaboration with instructors
• Increase confidence as future educator.
• Determine the goal of the problem
• Identify student misconceptions
• Reflective lesson planning

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Student Cycle
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Podcasting 101

• Tablet PC
• Jing

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Participant Discussion

• How can podcasts improve student learning in my
  content area?
• How do faculty-created and/or student-generated
  podcasts enhance the critical thinking skills of
  students?

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Institute for Innovations in Undergraduate
Research and Learning

• Mission To develop, foster and support
  innovations that use digital technology to
  enhance undergraduate teaching, learning and
  research, and to make very simple the storage,
  retrieval and sharing of digital content for
  teaching.