Speaker: Lee Chambers, DSA and UK business development manager, Sonocent. Research discovered that students capture just 11-70% of a lecture using traditional note-taking methods. Notes are crucial for effective study strategies, so student engagement and success often falters with poor technique. We explore note-taking technology to suit different learning styles, enabling you to create inclusive learning environments across your institution.

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Supporting Student Success:
Inclusive Learning Environments
with Note-taking Technology
Lee Chambers
Business Development Manager
Sonocent

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Introduction
• Note-taking benefits and challenges
• Common techniques and strategies
• Inclusive note-taking through Sonocent

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Questions & Polls
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Why does poor note taking
affect student engagement
with course content?

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Why do we take notes?
• Manage information and ideas
• Identify and capture key points
• Focus and engage in active listening

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Better notes lead to better grades

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Better results in assessments
Exams PresentationsEssays

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What limitations do students and
faculties face when using
‘traditional’ note-taking methods?

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What are the challenges?
“I spend so
much time
copying down
notes that I
don’t express
my own ideas”
“I have reams
of notes by the
end of a lecture
and I don’t
know what to
do with them”
“I can’t write
quickly enough
and miss
information on
deadlines and
tasks”
“If several
people are
talking at once I
lose track of
the
conversation”

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Oral presentation
Note-taking is
the biggest
problem
students at
university with
dyslexia feel
they encounter*
*Webster. D.M (2016). Listening to the
Voice of Dyslexic Students at a Small,
Vocational Higher Education
Institution to Promote Successful
Inclusive Practice in the 21st Century.
Journal of Learning and Teaching Vol.
2, No. 1, p78-86.
Students with SpLD
struggle with note-taking
Computer use
Written course work
Written exams
Listening
Remembering facts
Concentration
Handwriting
Expressing ideas in writing
Expressing ideas orally
Time keeping
General organisation
Organising essays and reports
Punctuation
Note-taking
Spelling
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

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What makes it so hard?
• Highly cognitively demanding activity
• Listen, process & capture for long periods
• Learn from multiple sources of information

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How can an inclusive learning
environment be supported with
note-taking technology?

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What is an inclusive note-taking tool?
Aids study activities Multiple learning styles
Available to everyone Works everywhere

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Audience Poll
What support do you provide
to students to help them with
note-taking?
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No Notes
Pros
None?
Cons
Likely to underperform
Need to work much harder
afterwards

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Hand Written Notes
Pros
Some information captured
Cons
People talk faster than you write
Difficult to write and listen
Hard to organise, easy to lose

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Paid Note-takers
Pros
Professional note-takers
Disabled student supported
Cons
Generic notes, not personalised
Passive, not active process
Can be very expensive

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Smart Pens
Pros
Record audio while writing
Playback audio after event
Cons
People talk faster than you write
Difficult to write and listen
Quality of audio often poor

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Software Apps
Pros
Organise information easily
Text, images, links, audio, video
Cons
People talk faster than you type
Difficult to type and listen
Notes can often lack structure

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Audio Recording
Pros
All oral information captured
Ability to add index/bookmarks
Cons
Unable to annotate live
Time consuming to review
Provided too late after event

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Lecture Capture
Pros
Distance Learning
Flipped Classrooms
Lab Demonstrations
Cons
Not universally available
Unable to annotate live
Provided too late after event

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Best Note-Taking Process
• Before: Download & annotate slides/PDF
• During: Capture & highlight key points
• After: Review, summarise & engage

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Sonocent’s CARE Process
Capture Annotate Review Engage
Speech,
Slides, PDF’s,
Images
Sections,
Highlighting,
Text Notes
Playback,
Summarise,
Expand
Export as
Audio, Video,
or Text

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Speech

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Audience Poll
Which environments or
materials do your students
study from?
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Live Learning Environments

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Multimedia Learning Resources

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Text-Based Documents
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Effective notes aid study activities
• Create revision files
• Compose essays
• Practice presentations
• Conduct research

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Audience Poll
Is your institution
looking to implement new
inclusive tools – if so, when?
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Want to learn more about Sonocent?
Lee Chambers
07843 579 452
lee@sonocent.com
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