| In this page you can sample some of the podcasts created by chapter authors and students.
Copyrights of these podcasts remain with the creators of podcasts. Please respect the intellectual property rights created in these podcasts. You may use them for educational purposes, but please do not re-distribute them You can download the podcasts by right-clicking and choosing the ‘save target as’ option.
Chapter 4: Podcasts and lectures
Click here to listen to a podcast to support the understanding of complex concepts in undergraduate physics. Authors of Chapter 4 discuss ways of understanding angular momentum with examples from real life.
Chapter 5: Podcasts and practicals
Here you can access an example of a video podcast produced by Nick Mount and Claire Chambers providing step-by-step guide to carry out various operations with GIS software. These video podcasts were closely linked to Geography undergraduate students’ learning activities with computers in practical classes.
Chapter 6: Podcasts and locations
This is an illustration of iWalk podcasts described in Chapter 6. Stuart Downward and his colleagues produced these podcast to support the Geography students learning activities in the field.
Chapter 7: Podcasts and feedback
Click here to listen to an example feedback podcasts created by Derek France and Chris Ribchester, as described in Chapter 7. These podcasts have been developed to improve the quality of feedback given to students on their assessed work.
Chapter 8: Podcasts and online learning
Here you can access an example of ‘profcasts’ produced by John Fothergill, as described in Chapter 7. The purpose of these podcasts was to offer advice to undergraduate Engineering on their weekly learning activities, to get students to think how their subject is linked to the real world applications.
Chapter 10: Podcasts and resources
Click here to view a ‘potcast’ produced by the animal vets. They produced these podcasts to make more effective and wider use of well-established (and a rather amazing collection) of the University’s anatomical museum, collected over its 200-year old history. Through the use of video podcasts, the vets address the issue of providing personalized access to specimens.
Chapter 12: Podcasts and collaborative learning
This link provides you access to an example of Libby Rothwell podcasts created help undergraduates in their presentation and portfolio work, both of which are assessed. She explored podcasts to offer additional support to her students in developing their module-specific learning and study skills.
Chapter 13: Podcasts for reflective learning
This is an illustration of how podcasts can be used to promote students’ reflective skills. As described in Chapter 13, Dick Ng’ambi’s develop this approach to support the learning of his postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
Chapter 14: Student's podcasts for reflective learning
Here you can listen to a group of second year medial students at the University of Leicester discussing some of the ethical issues surrounding genetic testing. Chris Cane and Annette Cashmore as described in Chapter 14 developed this approach for student-created podcasts in order to help students develop a variety of learning skills including engagement with the broader discipline, articulation and communication of scientific knowledge to lay people.
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