This prizewinning podcast creates curriculum material for an introductory undergraduate journalism class. Through lively conversations with Australia’s top journalists and exercises set by the guests, it provides innovative flipped-classroom teaching material for any journalism educator. The Masterclass won two awards at the 2024 Australian Podcast Awards, in the Education and Specialist categories.
NTRO Output Type
- Recorded or Rendered Work
NTRO Output Category
- Recorded or Rendered Work : Audio / visual recording
Place
Melbourne, AustraliaVenue
OnlineNTRO Publisher
OmnyMedium
Audio RecordingResearch Statement
This output falls at the intersection of Journalism Pedagogy and Podcast Studies. The work’s aim is to educate students in the practice of journalism using a podcast, and its hypothesis is that students today may learn more effectively through materially conveyed by podcast than by text.
This podcast represents an innovation in curriculum material for an undergraduate cohort, while also helping us to conduct further studies into journalism pedagogy. The students who used it were surveyed about their willingness to learn through weekly podcast listenings instead of by reading set texts. It aims to harness the affordances of podcasting for educational use, and our findings - which represent new understandings of how students learn - indicate that podcasts are far more popular than texts as a learning tool among journalism students today.
This podcast won two awards, for Education and Specialist material at the Australian Podcast Awards in 2024. It also won the Journalism and Education Research Association of Australia’s Outstanding Teaching in a Journalism programme award. The judges called it an “outstanding contribution to teaching and learning”. They wrote, “This entry represents clever integration of journalism practice and pedagogy, with sustained impact. Both educators are heavily involved in research that informs their teaching and thoroughly deserve to win the 2024 JERAA award for Outstanding Teaching.” They also wrote that our preliminary research findings indicate “a range of exciting applications for podcasting in journalism education.” The podcast also won a Teaching award in the School of Culture and Communication.Size or Duration of Work
12 x 25 min teaching podcasts
