Susan Stuart is a lecturer for philosophy in Glasgow.
This case study describes how she included new technology to enhance learning experience for her students and teaching experience for herself over the years.
Her greatest success is the recording of her lectures about Kant as podcasts (mp3 recording) and making them available for her students online.
The students value those podcasts very highly as a revision tool. Colleagues and other lecturers have adopted this method because of its success. Policy within the university has changed to support podcasting and e-learning. The perception of e-learning seemed to have been given a positive image. So the idea was implemented, used and appreciated widely which makes it an innovation.
My view:
The innovation of Susan Stuart is rather small. Just recording and uploading does not seem to be too exiting.
However, the additional resource was highly appreciated by the students. I guess that Susan Stuart is a brilliant lecturer. Philosophy needs the discourse about ideas. This cannot be provided by books or any online tests. Podcasting is the perfect way to document these discourses.
Susan Stuart made an innovation for her classes, which is a model for other similar settings.
Great summary. It almost makes me want to listen to the podcasts. And then I thought "where would I get the time?" But of course I could multi-task and listen whilst travelling - mobile learning is great for our travel-rich, time-poor lives!
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteyou can get the podcasts on itunes. I had the same idea and downloaded them for later.
Ulrike
I also love the fact on this case study, that it was so popular that people who were not studying listened to the podcasts.
ReplyDeleteI think that podcasts, where you have an engaging speaker, can be amazing at reaching people. Sometimes we forget the power of the spoken word, and the technology allows this to be accessed in.