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

[slery]

I think their motives are wrong in spite of the technology.  You should
attend your classes unless you are sick and this sounds more like it was
designed to cater to the student that just didn't want to attend classes.
They definitely need a different marketing strategy.

Aside from that, the technology sounds like it is combining what is already
in use at universities.  At the University of Louisville we have a couple of
professors that are holding classes via podcasts using an RSS feed.  I
believe the students are still required to use Blackboard for the actual
discussion threads of other options.  They also hold all tests and quizzes
via Blackboard.

I wonder if you have to have special player/recorders for these to work
since the articles mentions pausing the recording and inserting your own
comment?

Cindy

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



>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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