A Mobile Blended Learning Approach Based on Podcasts with Respect to the Students' Media Literacy

Abstract

Since several years lecture recordings have intensively been used as a teaching tool. Several courses are provided with lecture recordings as complementary learning material. Several distribution variants of lecture recordings have been investigated. Podcasts have established as a comfortable distribution technology for lecture recordings and are now established as a regular service for lecturing. This article describes how lecture recordings and podcasts have changed the way of teaching. A blended learning scenario has been set up based on mobile podcast technology. The classical lecture is substituted by coaching sessions, the transfer of knowledge is sourced out of the lecture hall. As a side effect of this didactical concept, the students' competence of self-organization can be enhanced.