Live Lecture Capturing and Back-Channel Conversations

Live Lecture CapturingUsing 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.

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