Innovations in Online Learning

AIU Online, the virtual campus division of American InterContinental University, is now using podcasts to supplement learning for online degree students.

Students enrolled in the online college degree programs at AIU Online may use specially tailored multimedia content that supplements their online class materials. AIU Online has made podcast content available that the student can download and listen to whenever time is available, solving the students' dilemma of how to make the best use of downtime imposed by travel and other job and family-related activities.

AIU Online offers students in its online degree programs virtual classrooms, via the Internet, which are multimedia rich-learning environments. These virtual classrooms are designed to meet the learning preferences and needs of the university's population of adult learners. For those students who learn best by listening, there is audio content; while for others who prefer to read or interact with course materials, text and interactive course materials are available. The podcasts makes the audio content from one class session each week portable. Students simply download the audio content and listen to it whenever they have time, so they can continue learning when they are offline anytime and anywhere. For those students who learn better by listening and reading, a text of the audio content is also available for download, providing the adult learner two learning modalities - audio and visual.

Dr. Alan Drimmer, President of AIU Online, says, "because AIU online is focused on the needs of time-challenged adult learners studying online for their college degree, we are using podcasting to supplement and accelerate the learning process. Students in our online degree programs use the podcasts to add another layer in the learning experience. We have not developed them as substitute for the traditional classroom, but rather as an enhancement for the virtual classroom."

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PRWEB, November 30, 2006