Purpose This research aims to identify users' goals and strategies whensearching for podcasts and their impact on the design of podcast retrieval technology. Inparticular, the paper seeks to explore the potential to address user goals with indexingbased on podcast metadata and automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcripts.Design/methodology/approach The paper conducted a user s...

Podcasting in medical education is becoming more widely used and may be a useful tool for communicating with applicants to medical school. Given recent trends in the popularity of podcasting and mobile media, we created a podcast to communicate more effectively with applicants to our medical school as well as with the broader premedical community. The purpose of this study was to characterize t...

In this podcast we talk to Prof Eric Taylor about the changes to the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in DSM-5 and how these changes will affect clinical practice. The podcast for this interview is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/sites/2999/download/Taylor.mp3.

The need for the integration of generic skills training into structured PhD programmes is widely accepted. However, effective integration of such training requires flexible delivery mechanisms which facilitate self-paced and independent learning. A video recording was made of an eminent speaker delivering a 1-h live presentation to a group of 15 first-year science and engineering PhD research s...

This paper presents a study on learners' level of anxiety when a podcast was used in developing their public speaking skills. This study employs a quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest nonequivalent control group design where the control group was taught using the traditional method whilst a podcast was used as a teaching aid on the treatment group. The podcast makes it possible for the learners...

In this podcast we talk to Prof David Kupfer about the challenges, controversies and future directions of DSM-5 by considering other research frameworks and classification systems of disease, and how this revised psychiatric diagnostic manual will impact global mental health classification and the field of medicine. The podcast for this interview is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/si...

Lernmaterialien, die in Form von Audioformaten verbreitet werden, eröffnen neue Potentiale für das E-Learning. Die Materialen können ortsunabhängig und mit preiswerten Endgeräten genutzt werden. Darüber hinaus können derartige Medien mit klassischen Formen des orstunabhängigen Lernens wie Skripten oder Lehrbüchern kombiniert werden. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt die Produktion von Podcasts als eine...

BACKGROUND Podcasts are popular with medical students, but the impact of podcast use on learning outcomes in undergraduate medical education has not been studied in detail. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to assess the impact of podcasts accompanied by quiz questions and lecture attendance on short- and medium-term knowledge retention. METHODS Students enrolled for a cardio-respiratory teaching modul...

BACKGROUND Traditional education classes are no more effective because they are tied to a particular place and time. Podcast complete the defection of other educational resources. In this study we aimed to address whether utilizing podcast multimedia training system has an effect on the motivational achievement and students learning of the Arabic course in high school. METHODS In this practic...

In this podcast, we talk to Professor Michael O'Donovan about the latest genetic advances in schizophrenia based on research data from the Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Functional and prediction studies from the identified genetic loci are described together with future directions in psychiatric genetics and its interplay with the environment.The podcast fo...