Andrew Ginty and Sarah Chesney

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Andrew Ginty and Sarah Chesney
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Role of CDLT

• Small academic unit with its own research base.
• Acts as a resource for faculties in terms of
  advice, information and the strategic development
  on all matters to do with learning teaching and
  assessment.
• Provides a substantive programme of training for
  new faculty staff
• Provides bespoke training events on LTA matters
• Supports research and scholarly activity through
  project funding advice and links to external
  resources and projects
• Consultancy

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Fest Scholarship
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Why look at podcasting?

• Sensible to try and capture elements of the Fest
• The challenge is how to model practice using
  newer technologies
• Continually looking to encourage staff to engage
  in action research
• CDLT have an obligation to try and close the
  digital divide between faculty students (Seeley
  Brown 2002)

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Our aims

• How podcasts can
• Improve the learning experience compared to
• other forms of dissemination?
• Impact on the lecturers own engagement with
• action research?
• Stimulate the re-use of learning materials?
• Successfully support CPD including the
• PgC in HE?

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Improvement Impact

• Previously no opportunities to engage with Fest
  retrospectively unless keynotes provided slides
  Opportunity to engage staff who hadnt attended
  Fest with these debates
• Staff preferred the combination of slides
• audio
• Overall we had enthusiastic feedback from the
  response to the recordings both through the
  online survey (reflected in the statistics) and
  feedback from staff through emails (unsolicited)

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Stimulating re-use of material

• Recordings of keynotes was a useful exercise
• Staff were interested in using audio themselves
• Some staff are keen to make their own recordings

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Supporting CPD

• Improving teaching practice
• Raising awareness of scholarship
• Another conduit for meeting staff development
  needs and promoting reflective practice
• Just-in-Time learning
• Future Developments

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Observations

• Access through PCs/VLE
• Keynotes were experts
• Modelling a view of e-learning using diverse
  strategies for students to access learning
• Producing audio recordings should challenge
  practitioners

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• any teacher that can be replaced by a podcast
  should be
• Shirley Alexander quoted in http//www.smh.com.au/
  news/technology/podcast-lectures-a-hit/2006/08/10/
  1154803028454.html
• Thank you for listening.

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