PODCASTS – A WORLDWIDE STANDARD IN E-LEARNING

Internet technologies fascinate people of all age groups. The three buzzwords of everyday life are “always on, anywhere and anyplace”. Mobile devices become more and more powerful – they allow for learning-with-fun, creativity anytime at anyplace, and public understanding of complex issues. Within the next five years we will use mobile devices with built-in Inertial Navigation sensors and general GNSS receivers (compatible with GPS, Galileo, Glonass, and Baidou). Moreover, those devices will offer 1TB storage capacity on-board, HD photography and HD video recording, allow for communication speeds of up to 1 GBit/sec using LAN/WLAN/WiFi, and have in service additional sensors, such as temperature, air pressure, pedometer, to name just a few. The devices will easily communicate (wireless) with large HD displays, and are therefore excellent tools for students of all education systems. Learning has become and will become more pleasant as it was before. One may argue about the consequences of this unlimited use of mobile devices. However, this discussion will not lead to any useful outcome. As a matter of fact, most people will use mobile devices instead of desktop and notebook computers, especially the young generation. There are public opinions about the size of content currently teached in primary, secondary and higher education – it seems that the content offered the last 20-30 years is much too less nowadays and in future. We have to double, or may be, even to triple the content! How will we perform this mammoth task? The answer seems to be simple: use the most recent technology with all its pleasant gadgets and apps. When Apple introduced the first iPod generation (2002) nobody could foresee the story of success of this mobile device. Today