The ability to pause and rewind podcast lectures gave the upper hand to college students in a recent study that compared the performance of students who attended a lecture in person and those who viewed it from iTunes University. Students who watched the lecture podcast--available from the iTunes U online video library--scored an average of 71 percent. Students who sat through the 30-minute classroom lecture scored an average of 62 percent, according to the study. Students who watched the video lecture and took notes, McKinney said, scored an average of 15 points higher than their peers in the lecture hall. Read more at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=57612
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