In a previous existence at another university, I posted my PowerPoint
slides on the web prior to my lectures.  This meant students could print
them off and then annotate them during the lecture but the slides only
provided a framework with the content of the lecture delivered orally.
This avoided the frantic scribbling which my students seemed obsessed by
and allowed them to listen more and focus on the important issues
bulleted in the slides.

Secondly, I also recorded lectures on video which I then streamed on the
internet and offered as downloads over the intranet.  This allowed those
students who attended the opportunity to go back and clarify what they
had heard in the lectures and, for those who hadn't attended, the
opportunity to learn the material they missed.  This did lead to a very
slight decline in numbers, however, for me it is the learning that is
important and I was not particularly bothered where this occurred so
long as it did!  Of course, the lectures were complimented by weekly
tutorials where attendance was compulsory and these were also recorded
and offered via the web.  The benefit of this was that those students
how didn't attend but who watched the lectures online and who had
questions were able to ask these at tutorials.
 
Feedback from the students was very positive and the resources were in
constant use in the run up to exam time.
 
A project which I recently heard of and that might be of interest here
in offering support for disabled students ran at Georgia College & State
University last summer.  The project supported the teaching of music
courses by having lecturers collate supporting music files which were
then placed on iMacs in public labs on campus.  Students were issued
with an ipod for the duration of the course which they took along at
regular intervals and synced up with the playlists of supporting
material held on the iMacs.  Perhaps the same thing might be useful for
audio recorded lectures with the files being available in a central
point such as Student Support?

A link to that project - http://ipod.gcsu.edu/

Regards, Ross
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Ross Little, Project Offcer
eLISU, Glasgow Caledonian University 
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        From: Graham Rice [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
        Sent: 16 April 2004 11:41
        To: [log in to unmask]
        Subject: Re: lecture notes
	
	
        On 16 Apr 2004 at 10:55, enable wrote:


        > Yes, its still common for that (now we provide minidisks), but
the
        > student attended the lecture as well. Mick seems to be
suggesting that
        > students didn't attend when the tapes were available
elsewhere. Adam
        > ------ Adam Taussik Disability Officer University of
Southampton
        > 
        I have the "existence of recorded lectures" being used as an
argument from a student who wanted a Net Minidisc so that they could
down- load lectures from the university server. According to the student
certain lectures were held on the University server as MP3 files for
download before or after the lecture. 

        Alas I don't know exactly which institution or course this was,
but it sounds interesting if it is what is truly happening. 

        Regards
        Graham Rice, Technician

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