Recent research has shown that listening repeatedly to heart sounds with iPods can actually improve the ability of medical students and practicing physicians to correctly identify common heart murmurs. In the article iPods help docs improve stethoscope skills, the work of
Lead investigator Michael Barrett, M.D., clinical associate professor of medicine and cardiologist at Temple University School of Medicine and Hospital is described.
This non-traditional method of listening to the heart, known as cardiac auscultation, is only one of the many uses podcasting is being adopted for teaching and learning.
Even the Chronicle of Higher Education has new weekly podcasts featuring interviews with a prominent researcher, college leader, or Chronicle reporter about big ideas in higher education.
Recent interviews featured Gerald S. Jakubowski, President of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, discussing how to increase the number of engineering graduates. and Brewster Kahle, Director of the nonprofit Internet Archive and leader of the Open Content Alliance, a large-scale book-scanning project, outlining his vision for digital libraries.
