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(Abell, 2017)<\/p>\n

Our group chose podcasts for the team learning event and delivery technology assignment.\u00a0 I was excited about choosing this topic, as I have been an on and off fan of the technology for the past few years.\u00a0 I have to admit, it was a coworker who recommended Serial<\/em>, that got me hooked on listening to podcasts.\u00a0 The concept of being able to do other things while listening to something isn’t foreign to me.\u00a0 In fact, it’s how I spend majority of my day.\u00a0 I am a multitasker through and through.\u00a0 To me, podcasts were just like listening to music, but instead, I was listening to a story.\u00a0 I didn’t really think of podcasts in terms of education, or furthering my knowledge on a subject.\u00a0 I had classified podcasts as a source for entertainment.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until my group decided to use this technology for our project and through my research, I realized that podcasts offer so much more than just entertainment.\u00a0 Fang wrote a terrific article that outlined why people listen to podcasts and I found it very enlightening.\u00a0 From creative inspiration, to entertainment, to expanding ones knowledge on a multitude of subjects; podcasts can provide a convenient source of just about anything (Fang, 2019).\u00a0 Podcasts offer opportunity to individuals to be efficient with time by providing on demand accessibility.\u00a0 Through further exploration as to the impact of the podcast technology on education, I found it really interesting that there was such a positive response from students.\u00a0 “Irrespective of the form of podcasting, student satisfaction is typically strong and students generally perceive podcasts to have enhanced their learning” (Chester et al., 2011, p. 236).<\/p>\n

As I continued down my rabbit hole of research, I started to feel overwhelmed.\u00a0 There is so much information out there regarding different topics and it became clear to me that I needed to answer the question of how to deal with the abundance within podcasts.\u00a0 I have come up with a few questions that I would like to consider in my research and I am open to suggestions regarding how to deal with the abundance of podcasts:<\/p>\n