Using Tablet Technology and Recording Software to Enhance Pedagogy

The National Center for Education Statistics for the 2000-2001 academic year indicates that 56% of all two and four year degree-granting institutions already offer distance education courses and an additional 12% plan to start offering such courses in the following three years (Waits and Lewis 2003). This drive for increased e-learning enrollment has evolved with the changing student culture of higher educational institutions. According to Jones and Madden (2002), typical college students have grown up with computers, and the Internet has become an essential ingredient to their everyday lives. In response to such changes, institutions of higher education have incorporated new teaching styles and altered their business strategies of delivering courses to meet the demands of 21st-century learners (Beaudoin 2003).