In college, it took me three semesters to outgrow my awful study habits from high school, and I had to do it the hard way.

Automating study notes. Let’s explore how Gen Z is turning ... transcription tools like Otter.ai and Notta to capture full lectures in real time. These tools convert spoken words into editable ...

typing notes ... The McDaniel-Bui study, released online earlier this spring, included 144 undergraduate students. Participants listened to a 12-minute lecture about car brakes and pumps.

In the first study, 65 college students watched ... contained more words and more verbatim overlap with the lecture, compared to the notes that were written by hand. Overall, students who took ...

Without pausing the videos or taking notes, one group watched each ... cautioned against taking the results of this one study as law for video lectures. "There might be some negative effects ...

And to test the external-storage hypothesis, for the third study they gave students the opportunity to review their notes in between the lecture and test. The thinking is, if students have time to ...

In each study, however, those who wrote out their ... implications for students who use their laptops to access lecture outlines and notes that have been posted by professors before class.

It turns out there is. A new study—conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer—finds that people remember lectures better when they’ve taken handwritten notes, rather than typed ones. What's more ...