Laptops and computers are used by students for video games, social media, email, and lecture notes…lecture notes?! New technology initiatives at college campuses are giving students the ability to download digital classroom images which are synced to audio files from their lectures. PowerPoint presentations and animations can be accessed from the school site and downloaded for future viewing. Students use the rich media to intensely study for tests and make sure they didn’t miss anything during the lecture.

According to the New York Times, Limor Raz, a Ph.D. candidate at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, reviews lectures in her neuroscience class by computer. “I can’t stress enough how much it helped me prepare for exams,” she said. “There’s a tremendous difference between viewing the lecture once and seeing it again. It’s not exactly easy, neuroscience. Trust me, it’s very tough.”

Students have been taking notes of lectures for quite a long time; this is just the next step in the evolution of education. It is combining education and technology in a new and innovative way to help not only the students, but the teachers as well, by having students that are better prepared for tests and exams.