The Significance of a Podcast

The incorporation of web tools (podcasts, wikis, blogs, etc.) serves as mechanisms to augment teaching methods and offer academic support to student learners.  A podcast allows learning to occur anytime and anywhere (Lemley & Burnham, 2009).  Podcasts are one form of audio media in which recording and transmission of the human voice occurs for instructional purposes (Billings & Halstead, 2009).  This technology serves as an adjunct to education and appeals to the visual and auditory learner.  It may improve a student’s ability to remember and apply knowledge because of the ability to replay the lecture, which can effectively meet Bloom’s cognitive learning domain (Johnston, Goldsmith, Hepworth, & Lacasse, 2010).