This week I have been continuing my research. I posted a link to my thesis. I started to work on it and it helped me to develop the structure of my research. Reading different articles have been giving me different ideas on how to setup my research, to be honest I'm quite confused. Hopefuly as I continue with my research it would give me a better idea on how to set this up.
This week I found some articles in regards on learning with audio and effective communication. After reading I hope they can help me with the overall structure of my thesis.
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In your introduction you might want to spend some time explaining how podcasting is a new technology etc. You might also want to compare it to other more familiar technologies and explore why it may be useful in higher education.
In your research questions you can skip "What is a podcast?" as you are an expert and can explain it to us. What you want to focus on the other areas you identified like:
How is podcasting being implemented currently? What are indicators of quality (you will need to find a non-podcasting body of literature to generalize about quality).
The purpose is to describe the current state of podcasting in higher education and to further describe/predict/explain how to make the most of this technology.
Obviously you want to start working on the literature review a lot more. You may not find information in the areas you have identified. Podcasting is just too new to have a deep literature base. But you can look to the OLD stuff, WWII era writing about effective communication via audio means (back them radio) etc. You may also look in the communications literature for audio theories to explore.
You might want to delve into the No Significant Difference Literature to make a case for why it is appropriate to not try to compare face-to-face instruction (or try to use online technologies to just replicate face-to-face experiences) but to do what your study proposes, find the best way to use online technologies.
Your methodology is going to be critical. It's time to start creating a plan of action for this. Don't forget document recovery (syllabi etc.), you will also probably want to do interviews. What do you think?
These are just some suggestions.
This is an interestng topic, I would like to try podcasting in my own HS classroom since most of my students seem to have wires hanging from their ears.
Also, if there are any similarities of podcasts with talk radio, I wonder if there is any research on how radio shows focus content to a chosen demographic. or why certain demographics don't have any (or little)talk radio targeted towards them.
I'm interested to see where your research leads.
I know nothing about pod casting so I'm very interested to see what I can learn from it. Glad to see that you are making progress. I wonder how I would be able to use this in my classroom.
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