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sponsored case study Orientation program uses lecture capture to guide students through community college experience Tegrity’s lecture capture system contributes to 10% increase in freshman retention institution. The school started using ore than half the students at Tegrity lecture capture in 2005 and Lawson State Community has been expanding it ever since. College are squeezing classMany Lawson students are in at es and homework between shifts at least one remedial or developmentheir respective jobs. In addition, tal course, so access to recorded many face childcare, transportation lectures is especially helpful in reand technology issues that make it inforcing concepts covered during even more difficult to stay in school. class. The lecture capture program To combat these and related also allows students to take notes issues, Lawson State established and bookmark sections for future “Freshman Academy” last year with “We conduct student focus groups, reference. the help of Tegrity lecture capture “We call Tegrity a supplement, technology. Students now com- and students tell us that having Tegrity but it is so valuable that I think if plete coursework online, with the lectures is the most beneficial change.” we took it out, students and faculty assistance of a classroom teacher would miss it,” Davis said. “It’s unique who leads discussions and group activities. And the online information is always available, in that students can relive the experience of listening to a live lecture, and that’s very powerful.” should they miss a class because of another obligation. Lecture capture has been particularly helpful in the “Students can review classes whenever they want—at home, in a computer lab. We even have students who have nursing program, which has about 150 students currently Tegrity downloaded on their iPhone. They listen in their car,” enrolled and another 1,300 taking courses on their way to said Randy Glaze, dean of educational support services. applying for the rigorous discipline. “Nursing is the largest academic program on campus,” “This is a major appeal to students.” Tegrity recordings are populated directly into course Davis said. “We wanted to improve retention—of students lessons, which cover material such as campus safety, and also the information they were learning. Many struggle school disciplines and a welcome message from the col- with taking notes in a standard lecture format; now they can lege president. Students are shown how to pay tuition and revisit lectures to master the information. “We conduct student focus groups, and students tell us register for classes online, navigate the school website and that having Tegrity lectures is the most beneficial change to track their grades. “The bulk of our students are first-generation college the nursing program,” she added. After the first year of the Freshman Academy, the pass students, and they don’t have all the necessary information walking in the door,” Academic Dean Sherri Davis said. “This rate for students in the orientation program increased program helps fill a crucial void. Plus we know a lot of learn- from approximately 65% to 80%, and, even more imers are visual. Now they can watch a video that demonstrates portantly, retention of students in the freshman class increased by 10% in the first year. Nursing students exhow to do something, and that builds their confidence.” The orientation course, taken by all first-year students perienced similar results and named lecture capture the for credit, has seen immediate results, with 80 percent of most significant area of improvement in the program. students passing, versus 60 percent passing the old version. “We’ve created a more-informed freshman,” Davis said, For more information about Tegrity lecture capture, please visit www.tegrity.com. “and students are registering online in record numbers.” Lawson State has just under 5,000 students on its campuses in Birmingham and Bessemer, Ala. Graduates earn a certificate or associate’s degree or transfer to a four-year M http://www.tegrity.com http://www.tegrity.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - March 2012

University Business - March 2012
Contents
Editor’s Note
College Index
Ad Index
Behind the News
Human Resources
Campus CFO
ERP in the Ethers
Digital Treasure
Scoring Big With New Football Teams
Money Matters
End Note

University Business - March 2012