Interviewer:
You've been recording the whole lecture and making it available to students, or podcasting. What did you think it might contribute to your teaching?

Andrew:
I thought it would be a good way of helping people revise, I thought it would be a good way of people going over and understanding at a deeper level the information especially in Philosophy, some of its pretty tough.

There is a lot covered in lectures and its quite sophisticated so if they have a chance to revisit the tough bits again and again then it'll just help them get a deeper understanding.

So revision and a deeper understanding.

Andrew in the lecture theatre:
This is the key question for us as philosophers: "What are the moral obligations of situations like this?" "What obligations does that put on us as people living in the relatively rich West, what obligations does that put on us?"

Alice Evans, student:
Usually as soon as the podcast has gone up I'll put the podcast on, I'll listen to it, go through the powerpoint, stop it when I think "Oh, wait, let me think about that", and that's quite good, the flexibility is nice, and then I'll continue.

I think there are two distinct advantages, well, maybe three. Number one you can do it at your own discretion. Secondly for those of you who don't live on campus it's a massive time saver, it saves about half an hour getting to and from University.

And thirdly when it comes to revision you've got that exact same format again to listen again to so you can listen to it as many times as you like. So the flexibility of having it whenever you want is a real key advantage, I'd say.

Interviewer:
What do you see with where you might go forward with podcasting?

Andrew:
I think I'm going to use it more as well as having the lectures, whole lectures and as well as doing bits for essay and study skills I'm going to do sort of key philosophical principles that students will need.

So have one just on a priori and a posteriori which is something that philosophers just need to know and have one just on that or one on some principle philosophical principle.

Interviewer:
And where would that fit into their studies?

Andrew:
Okay, so if a student was doing a course in some other something I wasn't lecturing and they come across this term a priori they will know there is a set of podcasts where I've talked about these issues.

So it'll just plug into wherever they need it and these are generic skills things they need to know on all courses.