Thursday, August 16, 2007

Looking forward to audio

I would like to see how instructors manage classes online using such forward tools as audio and video. I'm curious on how much time this may take. Does it take longer to edit and revise audio than it takes to edit and revise, let's say, text on instructions you set out for a particular assignment?

I would pose to use audio for online courses as verification and identification for the students. What if all who signed up for an online course had to 1st provide an audio recording of a scripted sentence that would then be fed into a voice recognition tool. When students "sign-on" or "submit" work, they would have to tag it with audio and it would be time stamped. Whew!

Is that happening already? We can extend that to video I'm sure. But we go back to how long it takes. Time is always a factor.