With OCW staff members helping transcribe lecture notes, dealing with intellectual-property issues, and providing assistance with graphics and Web design, the course sites are published without requiring extraordinary efforts by any individual professors.
Laptops at best reduce education to the clackety-clack of transcribing lectures on shiny screens and, at worst, provide students with a constant escape from whatever is hard, challenging or uncomfortable about learning.
Elizabeth Chao, Lam's mother, knew there was nothing she could do to stop her son from joining student rallies in Admiralty in late September, where he transcribed lectures and spread the word on social media.
A young scholar named Jennifer Daryl Slack believed she was witnessing something special and decided to tape and transcribe the lectures.
At one point, they told some of the laptop users explicitly not to simply transcribe the lectures word-by-word.
It won't accurately transcribe a lecture, but it works fantastically for dictation in the right environment.
Laptop users tended to merely transcribe a lecture "rather than processing and reframing it in their own words"; they scored strikingly lower on conceptual tests.
Responsibility for teaching the course rotated among professors in the then-Department of Computer Science, who shared and expanded a set of lecture notes, which were further organized and expanded by teaching assistants who transcribed their lectures.
Something like what Galileo did in the 17th century could be done in the 20th century for addressing the controversies and debates that stall inquiry these days". By collecting his work and transcribing his lectures, devotees like Mitchell hope that McKeon's voice will assume its rightful place in current debates over how knowledge is-or can be-organized, interpreted, and taught.
Mueller and Oppenheimer surmised that the longhand note-takers couldn't mindlessly transcribe the lecture verbatim.
Those who took notes in longhand, and were able to study, did significantly better than any of the other students in the experiment -- better even than the fleet typists who had basically transcribed the lectures.
