Using audio in teaching,

learning and assessment

MAHEP 3 (March 2017)Florence Dujardin & Rob Walker

M3 learning outcomes

• Review digital practices in higher education, through discussion with colleagues

• Focus on the use and value of technology-enhanced learning in your discipline

• Understand the use and value of technology in engaging with students

• Developing students’ digital literacies (to carry forward in their future careers and as citizens in the network society).

Definition

Educational podcasting is… The finding, making and sharing of recorded voices of tutors, learners, experts and others as a common space promoting learning through exposition, dialogue, encounter, social presence and enquiry. (Middleton 2016)

Educational podcasting values the academic spoken word as

an alternative to written media

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Possible uses of audioFraming

Before lectures (‘flip’)Expert contributionsSummariesRevision material

InformalTutorialConversationPeer advice

Assessment

BriefingFormativeSummativeGeneric feedback

Student perspective

Portability Flexibility Continuity

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Hennessy and Forrester 2014

Task 1: scripting• Feedback or

teaching materials?

• What aim(s)?• What structure?• Aim for a two-

minute recordinghttps://unsplash.com/photos/RLw-UC03Gwc

Task 2: recording• Which technology?• Environment• Smile!• Imagine the

student• Intonation https://unsplash.com/photos/TDVsBPsCG7c

What do you think? Comments and questions

Journalist Klaus Pokatzky https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7013/6666697243_a823751a1b_b.jpg

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Useful references Hennessy, C. and Forrester, G., 2014. Developing a framework for effective audio feedback: a case study. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 39 (7), 777–489.

Middleton, A. (2016) ‘Reconsidering the role of recorded audio as a rich, flexible and engaging learning space’. Research in Learning Technology, 24. Available from http://journals.co-action.net/index.php/rlt/article/view/28035

Middleton, A. & Nortcliffe, A. (2010) Audio feedback design: principles and emerging practice. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-long Learning. 20 (2), 208–223.

Salmon, G. and Edirisingha, P., 2008. Podcasting for Learning in Universities. Maidenhead: Open University Press.