[gui-talk] Fwd: Article: Missed lectures accessible on screen

[Steve Pattison]

>From: John Rae thepenguin at rogers.com
>To: AEBC sponsered mailing list aebc at blindcanadians.ca
>
>Missed lectures accessible on screen
>
>By Milanda Rout
>Australian IT - Australia, July 17, 2007
>
>STUDENTS will be able to listen to lectures and quiz academics at home, on
>the train and even in the pub after three research students came up with a
>way to make lectures more mobile.  The Queensland University of Technology
>students have designed a program through which taped lecturers can be
>downloaded on to mobile phones, personal digital assistants or laptops.
>
>The program, called Question Answer Technology, also allows students to
>pause the lecture and ask questions. The questions are then stored on a
>central database and fellow students and lecturers can contribute answers.
>The program recently scored Andrew Tan, Chien-Jon Soon and David Wang third
>place at the national stage of the Imagine Cup, a global inventors'
>competition run by Microsoft.
>
>Tan said the team wanted to facilitate better classroom-like interactions
>between students and staff after hours. "We realised that a lot of students
>are not attending lectures so they are missing out on lecture notes," Mr Tan
>said.
>"We wanted to enable this group of students to listen to what was said in
>the lecture theatre and also ask questions."
>
>The PhD student said the team was in discussion with QUT to trial the
>program at the university. The trio were beaten by University of Canberra
>information technology students, who took out first and second prize in the
>competition.
>
>Their winning inventions included technology that converted lecture notes
>into audio files and a system that created better web access for blind
>students.
>
>The winning Canberra team will represent Australia at the international
>finals of the competition in Seoul in August.
>
>www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22091794-15306,00.html

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