Hear, hear! Teaching through podcasts
Dusting or driving on the side: Podcasts have been a trend since the 2000s. Multitasking and flexible, the listening experience fits in perfectly with the lifestyle of students juggling between jobs and university. Yet the medium is only now arriving in the world of university teaching.
Podcasts offer edutainment like no other medium. The audio format is more personal and atmospheric than pure lectures. The appeal lies in the fact that it opens up several perspectives on a topic. Dissonance is known to stimulate reflection. And that is what teachers need in the age of fast information AI.
Production is extremely simple and preparation time is kept to a minimum. If you don't want to use the medium to accelerate knowledge, you can also use it to get to the heart of the matter.
Designing podcasts didactically
According to Drew (2017), educational podcasts can be divided into three genres:
You can combine the three methods. It is worth producing podcasts with colleagues, non-specialists or students.
Podcast series "in demand_for students"
Lecturers provide answers to burning contemporary questions and more. Across all departments and internationally.
nachgefragt_für studis is a production of the h_da for students on Moodle. As a lecturer, you can produce podcasts for teaching under supervision. A special offer if you want to produce podcasts with students: The programme "nachgefragt_für studis" offers to realize and broadcast a particularly successful idea with students and provides instructions.
Current episode
Part 3: Human-machine and the question of whether AI develops consciousness
In the last part, we talk about the dynamics between humans and artificial intelligence. What peculiarities can we observe? What are the expected social consequences, opportunities and risks? What does this mean for our world and world problems? We talk about rationality, reinforcement and whether the machine thinks and develops consciousness.
