Livenotes: a system for cooperative and augmented note-taking in lectures

We describe Livenotes, a shared whiteboard system and educational practice that uses wireless communication and tablet computing to support real-time conversations within small groups of students during lectures, independent of class size. We present an interface design that enables group members to interact with one another by taking lecture notes cooperatively, as well as to augment student note-taking by providing instructor slides in the background to annotate over. Livenotes was designed to facilitate more efficient, stimulating modes of learning that other collaborative approaches do not. We report how the system impacts cooperative learning in an undergraduate class and how students interacted with background slides in the workspace. We conclude with directions for improving the system and learning practice. Author Keywords Augmented note-taking, Cooperative note-taking, Collaborative learning, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Cooperative Learning, Education, E...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Matthew Kam, Jingtao Wang, Alastair Iles, Eric Tse, Jane Chiu, Daniel Glaser, Orna Tarshish, John F. Canny
• Keywords: CHI 2005, Computer-supported Cooperative Work, Cooperative Learning, Cooperative Note-taking, Human Computer Interaction