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- Title
The effectiveness of educational podcasts for teaching music and visual arts in higher education.
- Authors
Cheung On Tam
- Abstract
Podcasting is now being used frequently in the higher education sector. Although research has been conducted into the use of podcasting in teaching business, engineering, sciences and languages, little has been done on its use in arts learning. This paper reports on a study that investigated the effectiveness of using podcasts to learn music and visual arts in a teacher-education institution. A total of 128 Year-One to Year-Four students completed a survey and 24 students attended focus-group interviews and gave their feedback on the effectiveness of using podcasts in learning. Generally speaking, the students found the podcasts useful and viewed podcasting as a method which could be used to supplement faceto- face teaching. Results of the study indicated that demonstration of procedures or skills was the most effective type of podcast while reproduction of lecture materials was the least effective. The students suggested that the teachers needed to increase the relevance of the podcast content to what was taught during lessons. The paper concludes with a discussion of the production of effective podcasts and directions for future studies.
- Subjects
EFFECTIVE teaching; PODCASTING; MUSIC education; ART education; RSS feeds; EDUCATIONAL technology; HIGHER education
- Publication
Research in Learning Technology, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2156-7069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3402/rlt.v20i0.14919