Friday, May 8, 2009

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UW Podcasting: Evaluation of Year One
Cara Lane, PhD, Research Scientist, Catalyst Research and Development, The Office of Learning
Technologies, University of Washington
October 2006
http://catalyst.washington.edu/research_development/papers/2006/podcasting_year1.pdf

Approaches:
how course podcasts help universities meet students’ needs?
The study focus on students’ listening habits, the strengths of podcasting, the weaknesses of podcasting, and the future of podcasting.
So the approach that is used in this study is scientific study.
Levels:
Program level because it aim to measure the effect of the program in the students.
Techniques:
Searchers continued gathering data from students during winter and spring quarters. In spring 2006, they expanded the scope of the student survey(The survey contained questions about students’ listening habits and how students’ used the course podcasts. It also contained open-ended questions about the strengths and weaknesses of this technology) and introduced an instructor survey(contained questions about instructors’ experience with podcasts, observations of student use, and perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of this technology).

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