Ten minutes of administrative law: podcasts as a teaching tool

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a teaching innovation experience based on the use of podcasts as a tool to facilitate the assimilation of legal concepts and institutions by students. The initiative was based on the hypothesis that short, contextualized and clear audio capsules improve comprehension and encourage student involvement in subjects related to Administrative Law. The particularity of the proposal lies in the fact that both teachers and students share the leading role in the elaboration of the podcasts, which facilitates the achievement of different objectives. Firstly, the podcasts produced by the teachers allow the students to approach key institutions of the subject in an innovative way (teaching podcast). Secondly, the elaboration of podcasts by the students on these same concepts or institutions favors greater involvement and a better assimilation of the subject (learning podcast). This methodology places the student at the center of the activity, as they must assume a dual role: recipient of content (from both teachers’ and classmates’ podcasts) and, more interestingly, content creator (by producing their own podcast).