A Study of Structured Lecture Podcasting to Facilitate Active Learning

This paper presents an overview of a study of educational podcasting in higher education. This research aims to remedy pedagogical deficiencies in lecture podcasting by structuring content with chapter features designed to facilitate active learning behaviors. Also as mobile media players are quickly becoming ubiquitous, so is media multitasking. However, media multitasking, the processing of multiple information streams, presents challenges for human cognition. This study further investigated relationships in the usage of the chapter features through multitasking preferences and aspects of psychological flow. The study revealed that students used the chapter features as a supporting resource in their lecture study strategies for selection and review behaviors and also to support both their multitasking and flow behavioral preferences. The theory driven method and instrument developed to conduct this research can facilitate future studies.