Live Lecture Capturing and Back-Channel Conversations
Using Elluminate, the teaching team created a constructive back-channel conversation between students and TFs. Conversations took place in Elluminate's chat feature and were archived and posted to the course iSite after the session ended. Elluminate was also used in conjunction with Dragon Naturally Speaking to provide real-time captioning of Professor Hehir’s lectures.
Teaching Challenge:
This project addressed two challenges: first, students with hearing difficulties as well as students for whom English is not their first language were struggling to hear the lecture. The second challenge is common to many large lectures: keeping all students engaged and interacting with each other and the content.
Faculty/Instructor(s):Professor Tom Hehir |
Fellow(s):Elizabeth Marcell, Todd Grindal |
School, Library, Museum: |
Project Deliverable:A live classroom environment enhanced with real-time captioning of the instructor’s lecture, and a chat room for students to pose questions and discuss the content. |
Tools and/or Technologies:Elluminate and Dragon Naturally Speaking |
Course(s)/Discipline(s):A-112: Students with Disabilities in Schools |
Year Created:2008 |
