Apple quietly introduced its own Podcasts app recently. Simply titled “Podcasts,” the new app for iOS touts itself as the “easiest way to discover, subscribe to and play your favorite podcasts.”
[Source: Wired]
College professors are ready to reinvent the textbook. The new price: $0
[Source:IEEE Spectrum]
The Apple Education Profiles series includes compelling stories about leaders, educators, researchers, and IT professionals using Apple technology to advance teaching and learning in schools, colleges, and universities. Available in iTunes.
[Source: Apple]
Medical students at Ohio State University to listen to lecture podcasts on their own time. This allows for a deeper understanding of the course material and inspires professors to transform their class time into more interactive discussion sessions.
[Source: Apple in Education Profiles]
Three professors share their experiences of using technology to free them up for more personal instruction.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
A recent study explored the effect that providing lecture recordings to two different classes of Biology students would have on attendance.
[Source: Bioscience Education]
A professor assigns students to create podcasts and learns a few lessons himself.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
This podcast spotlights conversation from the 2009 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference with Robert Fox, associate director for public and administrative services at Georgia Institute of Technology. He shares ideas and proven techniques to improve student learning spaces. Listen to more podcasts at the EDUCAUSE Resource Center, or follow EDUCAUSEPodcast on Twitter.
[Source: EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative]