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Using the Audible Application as a Learning Tool: Annotated Bibliography

In recent years, the use of technology on college campuses has skyrocketed. The use of
digital texts is becoming more and more prevalent, and students are constantly on their smart
phones. Podcasts provide a way for students to learn and study on their own time. The Audible
application can hold podcasts for students to listen to no matter where they are. The sources that
I used in my research hold information about how well podcasts work as a tool for studying as
well as general information about the use of these audio applications on college campuses.

Abate, Karen. The Effect of Podcast Lectures on Nursing Students Knowledge Retention and
Application. Nursing Education Perspectives 34.3 (2013): 182-185. Web. 7 January 2014.

This article focuses on students in a nursing program and how podcasts helped them to retain
knowledge. The article outlines a study that was done to see how effective podcasts were when used
as a learning tool in a college setting. In the study, some students were taught via a face-to-face
lecture, and some were given podcast lectures to learn from. Both groups were then given a test to
see how much knowledge they had retained. The results of this study showed that the podcasts
helped the nursing students retain the knowledge better than a regular face-to-face lecture.
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This source is very useful. The author holds a PhD and is a nursing education consultant at a
college. The article is easy to read and has a variety of references to similar studies. It is a reliable
source because it was published in a scholarly journal and has several references, including one that I
used for my research. Because this source is so focused on only nursing students, it is perhaps the
least helpful article that I used, however it was still very helpful when researching for my proposal.
This source helped me evaluate the effectiveness of podcasts when researching for my
project. While much of my other research gave information about podcasts supplementing a
traditional lecture, this source studied podcasts as an alternative to in-class learning, which was a
different perspective. This helped me to better formulate my ideas about my project.

Bongey, Sarah Bryans, Gerald Cizaldo, and Lynn Kalnbach. Explorations in Course-Casting:
Podcasts in higher education. Campus-Wide Information Systems 23.5 (2006): 350- 367.
Web. 4 January 2014

This source not only talked about the advantages of using podcasts as a learning tool but also
of making them. This study used podcasts as an additional study tool along with in-class lectures.
The results were that as an addition to face-to-face learning, podcasts helped the overall learning but
didnt take away from class attendance, which could have been a problem. The article outlined how
to make a podcast as well, which is fairly easy and is free to make.
The authors included professors from the college where the study was performed. The source
took into account a number of variables and was objective when mentioning the pros and cons of the
study. It is a reliable source because it is published in a literary journal and has several references and
a few sources for further reading.
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This source was helpful to me because it showed how podcasts could work as an addition to
in class lectures. It was also helpful when deciding whether it was cost effective enough to make the
podcasts and to distribute them to students.

Kidd, Warren. Utilising podcasts for learning and teaching: a review and ways forward for e-
Learning cultures. Management in Education (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 26.2 (2012): 52-57.
Web. 9 January 2014.

This article talks about how effective and useful podcasts are in a learning environment. The
article suggests that because the college student demographic is already extremely familiar with mp3
players and the like, introducing podcasts as a learning tool would be easy and efficient. The source
states that podcasts are easy to use, cheap to make and download, and are effective when used as a
learning tool.
This article was written by Warren Kidd of the University of East London. It was published
in a literary journal, Management in Education, which makes it a reliable source. The source has
several references to different studies on similar subjects. It was useful when looking at how
effective podcasts were to a general college audience.
This helped me with my project because it asserted my research about podcasts being
effective. This study was specific to college students when talking about the usefulness of podcasts,
and therefore, appealed to my primary audience.

Ng'ambi, Dick, and Annette Lombe. Using Podcasting to Facilitate Student Learning: A
Constructivist Perspective. Educational Technology & Society 15.4 (2012): 181192. Web.
6 January 2014.

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This source included a study of postgraduate students where they tested a blended education,
with both podcasts and face-to-face learning. The students were tested on their knowledge and then
interviewed. The study showed that podcasts worked best as an educational tool when paired with
some task. The students found podcasts easier to use when they were downloaded onto devices that
they already owned.
The source is viable because it was a peer edited article. Annette Lombe and Dick Ngambi
are the authors of the article. They are from the University of Cape Town in South Africa. This
source was useful because it studied podcasts and face-to-face lectures and how different levels of
each may affect the effectiveness of the learning tools. It was also useful because the article included
excerpts from the interviews that were held with the study participants.
This article helped me with my project because it gave me some insight on what the students
actually thought about the podcasts. By including excerpts from the interviews performed in the
study, I was able to see how the postgraduate students found the podcasts. It was also important to
see how well they used the technology, so I could consider the ease of use of an application on a
technological device.

Taylor, Lucy, Susan McGrath-Champ, and Henriikka Clarkeburn. Supporting Student Self-Study:
The educational design of podcasts in a collaborative learning context. Active Learning in
Higher Education 13.1 (2012): 77-90. Web. 7 January 2014.

This article talks about many different ways to enhance student education. The study
introduces a few different education techniques, such as splitting the students into small groups,
and using podcasts. This study was based off of a much larger study used with podcasting. The
article used team-based-learning in conjunction with podcasts to evaluate how effective it was
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when used as a learning tool. Team-based-learning is simply the act of breaking the students up
into small groups. The results of this study found that the team-based-learning helped the
students retain the knowledge they learned as well as better prepare for class. The students also
found that the podcasts helped them learn the material that they were introduced to in class or in
readings, but alone, the podcasts did not prepare them for tests.
The authors of this study are all professors from the University of Sydney. Each of the
authors has different specialties concerning this study. Lucy Taylor evaluates learning techniques
like podcacsting, while Henriikka Clarkeburn has been studying the advantages of team-based-
learning for some time. Susan McGrath-Champ has researched about spatial aspects of work and
employment, meaning that she has been studying distance-learning techniques that were
addressed in this article. The article was published in the journal Active Learning in Higher
Education.
This article was very helpful to me in writing my proposal because it addressed some
science about how podcasting helps students. The article mentioned that the human voice
provides emotional emphasis to the listener, which may assist in memory and learning. This way,
podcasts can assist a studying technique and help students retain knowledge. This article also
provided a few excerpts of interviews of the students, which helped me when researching the
attitudes of subjects in studies like this one.