PitchingFan posted:hokieone posted:A hand-held recorder, digital or tape (I still use cassettes). Recording a lecture (step one) and listening to it a second time (step 2) to fill in your notes is a great study method. I did this in college and law school. Step 3 was to make an outline from the notes and by then, the material is mastered. I rarely had to study for exams because after making the outline, a little review brought it all back. Just a thought, might not be for everyone.
I still have one but my son laughed at me and said "Dad, that's what they make i-phone voice recorder for." We are getting old.
Students really should not record a professor’s lectures without asking for permission. Given today’s technology, it is nearly impossible to enforce a recording ban (everyone has a phone that can serve as a digital recorder), but this is a matter of both courtesy and, at some institutions, school policy. Lectures are a professor’s intellectual property—they often reflect years of work. I also know profs who have had their lectures digitally edited so as to make them appear to say things they did not. For someone teaching a potentially controversial subject (a wide ranging list these days), this can cause career problems.
Here are two of the first links that popped up on Google about this subject: