%0 Journal Article
%T Research Notes ~ The Audiocast Diaries: Reflections on radio and podcasting for delivery of educational soap operas
%A Wendy Elliott
%J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
%D 2006
%I Athabasca University Press
%X March 24, 2005: While studying Gender Issues in Distance Education at Athabasca University, I read about the nomadic Fulbe women in Nigeria who learned by radio. I could understand their concerns with uninspired educational radio programs that did ˇ°not take into consideration the rhythm of . . . [their] livesˇ± (Usman, 2001, p. 98). There was one tiny reference to a drama series, but as a scriptwriter and a woman interested in the power of storytelling as education, I was intrigued. The idea of serial drama as education was planted in my mind...
%K radio
%K distance education
%K educational soap operas
%K open education
%K higher education
%U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/370/731