I find the results of the study from this article very interesting for a variety of reasons. For one, being that I'm a distance-learning student and all of my learning is done online, any time I learn about something that might be helpful for me to understand and absorb information, I appreciate it. Of course, unless the professor of the class is aware of this study and making all material available with an audio recording, I guess it won't help much, but at least now I know if I want to transmit information to someone in the future, recording an audio file might be a better approach than just writing a paragraph or two.
This is also interesting to me because of my job. I work at a company that designs training materials, primarily sales training for pharmaceutical companies, but I hope that after I finish my health education degree we can expand and start attempting to sell some health and wellness training as well (I work at a very small company and the owners/management of the company are very into hearing their employees' ideas and doing new things). I think knowing how important the audio component is to learning can help us make our training stronger.
The fact that the students spent more time on the audio-feed is a fact that needs to be taken into consideration. If I was planning a training in the future, and had a specific amount of time set aside for that training, I'd have to make certain that adding audio was the right call. Also, the fact that only some of the students showed the increased post-lecture knowledge when listening to the audio certainly means there's room for more research and that not everyone necessarily learns the same way or gains the same benefits from audio-feed.
Overall, this article was interesting and any additional piece of knowledge that may help me in either school or my career is much appreciated.
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