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Podcasts in Higher Education: Students’ and Lecturers’ Perspectives

2009; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-642-03115-1_44

1868-422X

Ana Amélia Amorim Carvalho, Cristina Almeida Aguiar, Henrique Santos, Lía Raquel Oliveira, María Aldina Marques, Romana Maciel,

Social Media in Health Education

This paper reports the use of podcasts in blended-learning at the University of Minho, in Portugal. Six lecturers created their own podcasts with different purposes in order to support their undergraduate and graduate courses and their students' (n=318) learning. The reported study belongs to a broader project about the impact of podcasts in blended-learning and it reports data from two semesters. Results give evidence of students' acceptance regarding podcasts although they do not yet make use of the advantages of media and mobile technologies. The lecturers considered podcasts worthwhile for teaching and for students to learn, but they are time-consuming and there is no institutional recognition. In spite of this, they intend to continue using podcasts in their courses.