A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

Good note taking skills start before the class begins. It is important to read all the required assignments ahead of time. Lectures are designed to supplement the reading assignments, not replace them ...

Otter.ai has been selected and deployed by dozens of universities and community colleges as a lecture note taker for distance learning to enhance collaboration, sharing, search, teacher-student ...

Man, it’s a great time to be a note-taker. For a couple of decades—first as a student, then as a professional journalist—I filled notebook after notebook with notes, covering classes, press ...

If you ever endured a long lecture or an hours-long all-hands meeting, you know this to be true: There’s no way you can jot down every single word your professor or colleague utters. Rather than ...

Just about every professor has complained about students with screens in front of them flitting over to Facebook or Tumblr instead of listening to a lecture. But, those distractions aside, it’s hard ...