Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice

Gray, N. , Labrosse, N. , Honeychurch, S. , Draper, S. , Given, M. and Barr, N. (2013) Tagging and linking lecture audio recordings: goals and practice. In: Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education Conference, Glasgow, UK, 11-13 Jun 2013, pp. 452-458.

Abstract

Making and distributing audio recordings of lectures is cheap and technically straightforward, and these recordings represent an underexploited teaching resource. We explore the reasons why such recordings are not more used; we believe the barriers inhibiting such use should be easily overcome. Students can listen to a lecture they missed, or re-listen to a lecture at revision time, but their interaction is limited by the affordances of the replaying technology. Listening to lecture audio is generally solitary, linear, and disjoint from other available media. In this paper, we describe a tool we are developing at the University of Glasgow, which enriches students' interactions with lecture audio. We describe our experiments with this tool in session 2012-13. Fewer students used the tool than we expected would naturally do so, and we discuss some possible explanations for this.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Honeychurch, Dr Sarah and Barr, Mr Niall and Given, Dr Michael and Labrosse, Dr Nicolas and Draper, Dr Steve and Gray, Dr Norman
• Authors: Gray, N., Labrosse, N., Honeychurch, S., Draper, S., Given, M., and Barr, N.
• College/School: University Services > Learning and Teaching Services Division; College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Archaeology
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2013 The Authors
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced with the permission of the authors