UVSC Offers Concurrent Credit to High School Students Studying Dragon NaturallySpeaking

High school teachers will receive training at UVSC and then serving as remote faculty at the high school sites, will teach Dragon to their students. Upon completion and assessment, the students will be awarded credit at both the college and at their local high school. These articles are inspired by the new input technologies and DigiTools courses being implemented in a half-dozen states, which replace traditional keyboarding class with new courses whose objectives are articulated in the NBEA standards; "Develop proper input technologies (e.g., keyboarding, scanning, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and use of the touch screen or mouse), including SAFETY METHODS to avoid repetitive strain injury."

By Karl Barksdale
Speaking Solutions © 2003

The Business Ed. team at Utah Valley State College is in its third semester of speech recognition coursework. With this experience under their belts, they feel ready to take the next step. In a recent advanced Dragon NaturallySpeaking workshop, the instructors brainstormed the possibility of adding Dragon NaturallySpeaking to its list of courses offered at the high school level for UVSC college credit. This program is called concurrent enrollment; an outstanding program that greatly enhances academic performance in many of our local high schools.

The high school teachers will receive training at UVSC this summer in DNS 7. Then, serving as remote faculty at the high school sites, will teach Dragon to their students. Upon completion and assessment, the students will be awarded credit at both the College and at their local high school. For instance, Springville High is discussing the possibility of integrating the program into its existing upper-level wordprocessing course. Sounds like a winner! Congratulations Utah Valley State College.