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Lectures

"It helps if you get the notes before the lecture and then you know what they are on about."
  1. How does your department ensure that venues to be used for lectures, and the ways of informing students about that, are compatible with the disclosed needs of the students?
  2. What is the procedure in your department for ensuring that lecturers know in advance of any student who has additional needs in relation to receiving or recording lecture information, and where that requires some modification of teaching practice to enable the student to participate?
  3. Do you as a matter of routine make the information you provide for students in lectures available also in some other way which takes account of the needs of all students, including those with impairments?
  4. Are there mechanisms in place for ensuring that staff are aware of what is required to facilitate sign language interpretation or lip reading, and for the effective use of equipment such as radio aid transmitters and microphones?


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Comments and Opinions

The idea of providing lecture content to students in a form other than the lecture itself ignores the skill-development aspect of a lecture. Taking notes at a lecture is an opportunity for students to develop their ability to 'capture' information quickly. Essentially, all information given in lectures is available in books. The purpose of the lecture is to develop the students' ability to listen, evaluate, and respond under pressure. This skill will be necessary when they are in work situations where instructions will be given orally and only once.

Making lecture content available on the Web or as handouts removes all incentive for all students (whether impaired or not) to work on developing these skills.
--Robbie Wilson ( r.g.wilson@stir.ac.uk ) from Scotland on Tue, May 21, 2002


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