The world of education has evolved significantly in the last few years and has grown rapidly. We’re seeing technology gradually burrow into every aspect of learning, making things possible that we never thought possible. The leading charge in this is transcription.
Transcription as a tool is involved in learning throughout the entire experience, from giving lectures to learning online, and it is important to recognise the power that it can hold to deliver an experience which students will love.
Lectures and Transcription
So, let’s talk a little bit about how lectures can be a powerful opportunity for transcription to shine and demonstrate how useful these tools can actually be in developing and enhancing the learning experience.
Lectures are goldmines of information and insights about a given topic by an expert. It’s a good idea to collect all the information possible from the lecture, but when you’re trying to keep pace with a lecturer via note-taking, you can lose out on the experience or simply miss important details, which then can’t be added back in afterwards.
Contrastingly, a transcribed lecture means that a lecturer is free to talk at length, you can engage with the lecture in real-time, and you’ll have an accurate, complete transcript of what was said to help ensure that your education progresses.
E-Learning Improved by Transcription
E-learning is something which can be improved and enhanced by the power of e-learning in a number of different ways.
E-learning is widely considered to be one of the more accessible ways for people to study because it can be accessed from anywhere in the world. However, transcription can be used to make it more accessible.
Not every learner can listen to an audio file or watch a video for many different reasons, so having a transcription of what’s been said allows for multimedia content that can help to make learning easy for everyone.
Incorporating transcription into e-learning is an easy task and it helps to make content accessible and suitable for everyone, regardless of their circumstances.
General Application
The general applications of proper transcription are limitless within education. The tools being used can develop a wide range of different areas within education. For example, there can be transcriptions of meetings between students and teachers to make updated records or transcriptions of academic discussions between lecturers or faculty staff. There are a lot of uses for a written record of audio.
Closing Thoughts
Exploring the applications of transcription in education is exciting because the possibilities are limitless. We are only scratching the surface of what transcription can offer to learners, staff and e-learning providers. Besides the usual benefits of accessibility and improved record-keeping, transcription allows learners to engage with lectures and courses. The days of frantic note-taking may be ending, and a new era of transcription is starting. For any learner, this is an exciting prospect, especially as it opens up new opportunities. Singapore Transcription is here to help with this, delivering accessible quality for education providers and users everywhere.