Steve Bond and I have been reviewing some of the research on how students use lecture recordings for their studies, and we noticed that several papers mention that lecture recordings could be helpful for neurodiverse students, particularly students with dyslexia, without actually measuring how. A bit more delving revealed that, although research has been done on dyslexic students’ views on Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), and studies have looked at note-taking by dyslexic students, little research exists about how dyslexic students actually use lecture recordings in their studies.

We got in touch with Sophie Newman, the Disability Officer with the LSE Student Union and Linda Kelland at the Disability and Well-being office for some more information. Their advice has been really helpful in highlighting some of the challenges neurodiverse students face at the School, such as lack of access to lecture recordings and lecture notes, and how students are using apps such as Notability to help make notes in lectures, which has really helped us get some insight into this topic.

So we thought we’d do a bit of research on this, and we need your help. We’d be most grateful if you could take our survey at http://tinyurl.com/p4eb5s9, but we’d also like your opinions and experiences on questions like:

• What are the challenges you’ve faced making notes or recordings?

• What are your experiences with lecture recordings on Moodle? Do you find them useful? And

• What do you think would make life easier for your studies at the school (lecture recording wise, of course)?

There’s also a chance to enter a draw to win a £50 Amazon voucher, so if you’d like to help out, please comment below!