Just Podcasts

My dissertation has taken a back seat to many more urgent matters in my life as of late but that does not mean that I have not been thinking about it. Truth be told, I’ve had a lot of time to think about what to do, how to do it, and why to do it over the course of the last few months. My intent was to study the impact of using blogs, wikis, and podcasting in corporate training on learning retention. The goal was to intervene in classroom or other training using these Web 2.o tools and study the response using a pre/post test Kirkpatrick model to study the learning retention.

Conversations that have taken place recently have given me a new direction. First is the nature of good science. Using 3 variables in the intervention only shows the imapct of using all 3 tools. This creates ‘noise’ in the stats and I would be unable to isolate which tool works best or at all. Second, that I do not need to change the world just move knowledge a little bit. Third, was the continuance of my work beyond the dissertation.

Last week I was privy to conversations about podcasting and the possibilities that exist of using audio and video podcasts in training or classroom settings. This got me thinking about limiting my dissertation to simply podcasts and leaving the others for future research.

This would shorten my timeline a bit and allow me to focus more scientifically on one variable introduced into the setting of training. What do you think? Is limiting my research to one thing, podcasting, a good idea?

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