Student Audio Notes Project

Overview

The project aims to research and develop a methodology of audio recording to promote more autonomous learning amongst disabled students and enhance their learning experience. Higher Education aims to help students become autonomous learners however, learner autonomy is contentious in some quarters where there are concerns that it may engender inequality for disabled students. The strategic and selective audio recording of lectures and other learning events can be beneficial for disabled students and with the addition of audio 'notes', including audio feedback, may offer more control to students with disabilities.

The project aims to:

discover whether recording feedback conversations using digital audio can assist disabled students to become more autonomous and effective learners·
develop methods, services and guidance to support students in accessing and using audio equipment in support of their learning
evaluate the impact of audio recording on all stakeholders

Anticipated outcomes

presentation of findings and conclusions relating to the benefits and impacts of audio feedback recording by some categories of disabled student
a set of best practice guidelines on the use of audio feedback by some categories of disabled studenta transferable model of disabled student learner autonomy in the form of a case study that presents the audio feedback methodology.