Podcast Production has been busy over the last few months recording podcasts with specialist software solutions company Questionmark.

Questionmark provides technologies and services for online testing and assessment to wide range of educational institutions, corporations, government agencies and awarding bodies all over the world. Their blog includes tips on best practices, case studies and commentary. Podcasts on the blog offer insights from users of the Questionmark Perception assessment management system as well as learning industry thought leaders.

Each month, Podcast Production's recording engineer joins hosts Joan Phaup and Sarah Elkins from Questionmark to record an audio podcast. The global nature and diversity of Questionmark's business means that their guests can be dialing in via landlines or Internet telecommunications from all over the world. Once we have tapped in and recorded the podcast in the best audio quality possible, we edit any slips that may have occured and once everyone is happy with the content it is produced with its distinctive "sting" and published on the Questionmark blog.

In podcast 6 Sarah spoke to David Lewis about formative assesement. I'm sure to those such as myself that are new to the subject, this podcast could make a good introduction:

David Lewis of Glamorgan University has extensive experience with Questionmark Perception. I spoke with him recently about the large scale implementation he has been working on at Glamorgan, where they use Questionmark for formative assessment, summative assessment and module evaluation. David also spoke about the training programs that have been developed within the University, the collaboration with other higher education institutions in Wales, and provided some great advice for anyone working with online assessments

Tune in to this podcast with David Lewis

We're sure their podcast is up to the mark!

Anyone interested in the oil market price, who would like to know a little more about the wider issues affecting the cost their next tank of petrol is encouraged to tune in the OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report podcast.

Every month, Podcast Production produces and publishes this podcast within 24 hours of the Monthly Oil Market Report being released by our customer OPEC - in fact, more typically the same afternoon!

Of course, none of this would be possible without the efforts of the OPEC team in Vienna or "ever-ready" broadcast journalist and correspondent Eithne Treanor who does the voice over an mobile podcast recording. A true pro!

One of Podcast Production's best known and most successful podcasts celebrates its first anniversary today with the publishing of Pensions Radio 24. Every fortnight, Pensions expert and outright city slicker Steve Bee is joined by our very own Stephen Ballard and special guests to put life into the notoriously complex and misunderstood world of UK Pensions.

During the past year Pensions Radio (formerly the BeeHive Pensions Podcast) has welcomed the illuminati of UK pensions to the airwaves, from Shadow Minister for Work and Pensions Nigel Waterson and the RMT's ever outspoken Bob Crow to Baroness Hollis. Today's episode is no exception, with the intrepid duo joined by none other than Aubrey de Grey, Chairman of the Methuselah Foundation.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey's work leads him to believe that the first human being to live to the age of 250 is alive today! But what could this mean for our Pensions? There is already a great deal of debate concerning retirement age and its affect on pensions and pension funds... tune in for more.

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Don't forget you can also tune in to Pensions Radio by dialling 0208 0993190.

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