A Very Positive Feedback Following the Massive Use of Speechi at King’s College

$King\'s College results$ Last quarter, professors of the Masters in Psychiatry at the London King’s College have recorded a large number of classes using Speechi, on an experimental basis.

More than 60 courses were recorded; these courses were routinely made available to the 43 students at the end of the class.

Following this experience, a survey was conducted among all students. I deliver to you the main results.

1. Massive consultation and adoption of Speechi by the students
Speechi was massively used by the majority of students. 60% of them followed more than 20 courses online (of which 20% followed more than 50 courses!). 3 students out of 4 use Speechi to view or review more than half of the course, which means that Speechi is used for long review sessions.

2. Speechi is a complement to lecture hall training, but does not replace it.
Only 4% of the students systematically replaced lecture hall sessions with Speechi. The others used it to review some points, take notes …etc

3. 100% of the students think Speechi is useful, very useful, extremely useful or even “absolutely necessary” (but how did they do before!). These results go beyond expectations.

4. Speechi allows the student to focus on the understanding of the course.
According to me, the most interesting consequence, to my opinion, is that students coment that Speechi allows them to focus on the understanding of the course, rather than on pure note taking (and yes, as I metionned in a previous post, it is difficult to do both tasks at the same time, especially when the subject is rather complex).

Students know that they can complete their notes later and they focus on understanding.

5. Speechi allows better documentation
Other interesting consequences. Since the students review a great part of the course at their homes, they have internet available and this tremendously helps them for documentation, and studying further misunderstood passages..etc

Prof. John Livesey, helped by Sandrine Thuret, obtained these results, which are to my opinion outstanding.

I thank them warmly for their work. Here are the complete results of the survey as well as students comments .

[Translated from Un retour d’expérience très positif suite à l’utilisation massive de Speechi au King’s College.. Please note that due to lack of time, I don't translate posts myself and usually do not review translations, so they may not be fully accurate and/or present some imperfections. Thierry]