Use of Audio Podcast in K-12 and Higher Education

The use of podcast in K-12 and higher education provides another technology resource for the students to support students’ learning. Podcast technology is an additional technology to provide educational content. One of the many advantages of podcast is that it makes use of XML technology, which makes it a file-based downloads instead of streaming from the web. For the end user is way better to download the file to their computer and the listen to it as many times as they want, because once it is downloaded to your system, you will be playing an MP3 in your computer, rather than streaming it from the web which if you have a slow connections will make it difficult to listen to or you would have to wait several minutes to listen to it.

Another great advantage is that Podcasts can be syndicated with RSS . in my own opinion that is one of the most powerful features of podcasts, because it would allow automatic downloads to your system every time there is a new podcast, you would not have to worry about keep checking if there is a new podcast. As soon as you subscribe it’s all problem-free. The other great advantage is that is portable in the sense that you can listen to it whenever in a MP3 enable device.