Author: Susan Stuart, s.stuart@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

JISC e-Learning Activity Area: Learning Resources and Activities

Higher Education Academy Subject Centre: Philosophical and Religious Studies

This case study illustrates...use of podcasting, an effect on learning, an effect on exam results, an effect on student personal development, student satisfaction with e-learning, innovation in learning and teaching, an influence on educational research, staff satisfaction with e-learning, staff personal development, a positive effect on retention, an influence on policy, modifications to learning spaces, an effect on social equality

Further Evidence

We have certainly influenced the Institutional policy. With the success and publicity I have had, particularly in relation to the Kant podcasts, the University has decided to invest in podcasting for the future and Joe Maguire's expertise and enthusiasm is now being recognised - he has been given a full-time job working between the Teaching and Technology Unit and Computing Science.

From the communication I have received from my peers and people around the world who have listened to my Kant lectures as podcasts (downloaded from iTunes) and who now say they are going to read more philosophy or even return to education, I have probably been instrumental in widening participation in higher education.