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Using audio podcasts to provide student feedback: exploring the issues

Using audio podcasts to provide student feedback: exploring the issues
Using audio podcasts to provide student feedback: exploring the issues
This paper explores the use of audio podcasting as an alternative to the written word in providing feedback to student assignments. According to a seminal work on assessment by Rowntree (1977), good student feedback can be considered the “life-blood” of learning. Within higher education (HE), student feedback has most often been given within a written format and its effectiveness has been debated over many years (Price et al, 2010). This paper will explore the use of an innovative method of providing feedback to students, that of digital audio playback using an mp3 file format. Various issues that could potentially affect the utilisation of using this approach, such as staff and student attitude, technical issues/barriers and briefly, theoretical imperatives are explored. Best practice according to the published evidence is outlined and recommendations for further research are suggested.
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Kettle, Trevor
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Kettle, Trevor
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Kettle, Trevor (2012) Using audio podcasts to provide student feedback: exploring the issues. Working Papers in the Health Sciences, 1 (1), 1-5.

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This paper explores the use of audio podcasting as an alternative to the written word in providing feedback to student assignments. According to a seminal work on assessment by Rowntree (1977), good student feedback can be considered the “life-blood” of learning. Within higher education (HE), student feedback has most often been given within a written format and its effectiveness has been debated over many years (Price et al, 2010). This paper will explore the use of an innovative method of providing feedback to students, that of digital audio playback using an mp3 file format. Various issues that could potentially affect the utilisation of using this approach, such as staff and student attitude, technical issues/barriers and briefly, theoretical imperatives are explored. Best practice according to the published evidence is outlined and recommendations for further research are suggested.

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Published date: 2012
Organisations: Faculty of Health Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 345287
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/345287
PURE UUID: 11f595ef-d500-416c-be3d-e73a9d1dcb48
ORCID for Trevor Kettle: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9623-3586

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Date deposited: 15 Nov 2012 15:20
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:10

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