Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Use of audio within Wikipedia

For the first time, I encountered by chance a full recorded article within Wikipedia. It was a surprise. I was searching for definitions of Podcasting to be used within the MDE wiki on New Technologies (project recently initiated within the MDE faculty community). It made sense to have a recorded version of the full article on Podcast. I went a bit further to find out that one can get access to an entire list of spoken articles within Wikipedia:
Wikipedia:Spoken articles

The addition of audio is a major addition for online students on the go. All books should be coming out with options for RSS feeds of all or some chapters. Recording of excerpts of book by instructor interspersed with comments in a form of lectures, would certainly be a significant addition in supporting students and their different learning styles.

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