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December 9, 2007
Novelties
What Did the Professor Say? Check Your iPod [ ScreenShots
Included ]
By ANNE EISENBERG
These days, students who miss an important point the first
time have a
second chance. After class, they can pipe the lecture to
their laptops
or MP3 players and hear it again while looking at the slides
that
illustrate the talk.
At least two companies now sell software to universities and
other
institutions that captures the words of classroom lectures
and syncs
them with the digital images used during the talk - usually
PowerPoint
slides and animations. The illustrated lectures are stored
on a server
so that students can retrieve them and replay the content on
the bus
ride home, clicking along to the exact section they need to
review.
[snip]
*Students already have an iPod and they already use them all
the
time,* she said. *You don*t need to train them.*
[snip]
Long before audio files, of course, students were doing
*lecture
capture* by taking notes, but even rapid writers may fall
behind in
fast-spoken, highly detailed deliveries. The new technology
may help
some of these students, especially those in large lecture
classes.
*But it doesn*t necessarily make sense for all groups,* Ms.
Engelbert said, *for instance, in a more collaborative
environment
like an advanced composition class with a lot of
discussion.*
The University of Central Florida uses a lecture-capture
system from
Tegrity, a company in Santa Clara, Calif., at its college of
engineering
and computer science in Orlando to record all sessions of
about 300
classes a year attended by roughly 2,500 students, according
to Alfred
Ducharme, an assistant dean.
Tegrity software indexes every word shown on the computer
screen during
lectures in a database.
*Students don*t have to review the whole lecture,* he said.
*They can type in key words on their computer, do a
Google-like
search, and open the lecture at that point.*
Isaac Segal, the president of Tegrity, said its fees are
based on the
number of students in the institution or department. Annual
fees
typically run $25,000 to more than $100,000, he said. Of the
90
institutions now using Tegrity, about half have campuswide
installations.
[snip]
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., plans to use a
software
application from Echo360, of Sterling, Va., that records
lectures and
accompanying slides for replay on iPods, iPod Touches, Zunes
and other
devices, said Edward J. Evans, Purdue*s interim executive
director for
teaching and learning technologies. The university is
testing the
program in as many as five classes this January, he said,
and hopes to
extend it to 300 classrooms in the fall.
[snip]
But Professor Danielson at Santa Clara said that not
everyone on his
campus was won over to the replay systems.
*Some professors are concerned about having
less-than-perfect
classroom moments captured for posterity,* he said.
E-mail: novelties nytimes.com.
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Gerry McKiernan
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