Can you imagine yourself sitting through a college or university lecture without being in the classroom or lecture hall? We've all sat through a few lectures paying very little attention, but now you can conveniently receive the full lecture as an audio file with a transcript.
That is what NoNotes.com is trying to achieve with both students and teachers recording class lectures and discussions and uploading them to an audio file with a full transcript of the class e-mailed to their account.
This also means that even if you're in attendance you wouldn't have to worry about scribbling down notes all the time. Instead, you and the teacher can engage and concentrate more on the subject matter that's at hand.
Matt Whitteker, 24, company manager of NoNotes.com and a Carleton University graduate, believes that his company will help to break barriers within the current classroom setting.
"We have had several centres for students with disabilities open accounts for note taking as well as several athletes who must miss classes, use the service to get notes while away at competitions," said Whitteker. "It seems quite obvious that the service would tailor itself to some very specific groups, like those who have hearing problems, language barriers, learning disabilities, or simply want to make the most of their class time."
NoNotes.com has currently opened up accounts in Canada, United States and the U.K. and seems to be growing by several new accounts per day for each of the aforementioned countries. Users of the service must use some form of voice recorder such as ones in cell phones and MP3 players. NoNotes does recommend recorders use a higher end voice recorder with a microphone in order to obtain the best recording results.
"At NoNotes.com, we want students to be able to enjoy their class time, and we want to promote information sharing among students and teachers everywhere," said Whitteker. "If a sociology teacher in Britain has a great way of teaching about research methods, we want them to be able to share that transcript in seconds with peers in the US or Canada."
NoNotes.com will charge their clients just under eight dollars an hour. Students are welcome to share the cost of the service making it more accessible for students on a budget.
For more info on the service, go to http://www.nonotes.com/.
That is what NoNotes.com is trying to achieve with both students and teachers recording class lectures and discussions and uploading them to an audio file with a full transcript of the class e-mailed to their account.
This also means that even if you're in attendance you wouldn't have to worry about scribbling down notes all the time. Instead, you and the teacher can engage and concentrate more on the subject matter that's at hand.
Matt Whitteker, 24, company manager of NoNotes.com and a Carleton University graduate, believes that his company will help to break barriers within the current classroom setting.
"We have had several centres for students with disabilities open accounts for note taking as well as several athletes who must miss classes, use the service to get notes while away at competitions," said Whitteker. "It seems quite obvious that the service would tailor itself to some very specific groups, like those who have hearing problems, language barriers, learning disabilities, or simply want to make the most of their class time."
NoNotes.com has currently opened up accounts in Canada, United States and the U.K. and seems to be growing by several new accounts per day for each of the aforementioned countries. Users of the service must use some form of voice recorder such as ones in cell phones and MP3 players. NoNotes does recommend recorders use a higher end voice recorder with a microphone in order to obtain the best recording results.
"At NoNotes.com, we want students to be able to enjoy their class time, and we want to promote information sharing among students and teachers everywhere," said Whitteker. "If a sociology teacher in Britain has a great way of teaching about research methods, we want them to be able to share that transcript in seconds with peers in the US or Canada."
NoNotes.com will charge their clients just under eight dollars an hour. Students are welcome to share the cost of the service making it more accessible for students on a budget.
For more info on the service, go to http://www.nonotes.com/.
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