i-Pod becomes a tool for learning

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The latest phenomenon in broadcasting is being used by two science lecturers at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) to help students with their studies.

Dr. Andy Breen and Dr. Siân Jones, both Physics lecturers at the Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UWA, are using MP3 technology to make voice recordings of their lectures available to their students via the internet in the form of podcasts.

Once recorded, each 50 minute lecture is transformed into a 30megabyte file which can be downloaded by students registered on the course onto an i-Pod or other similar MP3 players from the University’s Blackboard web pages.

Blackboard is a web-based virtual learning environment, which allows access to teaching and learning materials, and a number of tools for flexible online learning.

Dr. Andy Breen has been ‘podcasting’ lectures since the autumn of 2004 and is believed to be one of the first to use the technology in this way.

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