Star academic lectures go online Twelve of the world's top academics have grouped together to provide a global lecture service that launched on Monday. The technology delivers a screen split into four. While the lecture runs in the top left there are synchronised slides on the right. Immediately underneath is the synchronised transcript, with embedded footnotes while lists of of relevant web links are in the bottom left section.
Users can stop the action at any point, and pursue information from the links.
They can also rewind the lecture, pin down strengths and weaknesses in arguments and access supporting evidence. The lectures will be openly available for the rest of this month. Then, they will form part of Boxmind's e-lecture library that the company will make available to academic institutions. The company is offering software and production consultancy to institutions that plan to put their own material online.