Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Jack Barokas, Tel Aviv University Terena Networking Conference 2012 May Reykjavík, Iceland Three use cases on engaging digital media in higher education

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  Introduction  Lecture recording systems  Study results  Conclusions and future work Presentation Agenda

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  Educational video media - a growing need - how do we meet this need?  Three different lecture capture systems deployed in three different higher education institutions  How do students use these systems?  How are these systems accepted? Introduction

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  Introduction  Lecture recording systems  Study results  Conclusions and future work

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Lecture recording systems Capturer-Tel AvivVirtPresenter-OsnabruckRecollect-Saskatchewan Video and VGA on the fly integration, live webcast, slides timing based segmentation Microsoft WMV streaming Video and VGA recording, fully automated lecture capture technique based on open-source framework Two video sources and VGA, Chapter markers are automatically created using image recognition techniques.

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Opencast Matterhorn  Matterhorn is a free, open-source platform to support the management of educational audio and video content.  Institutions will use Matterhorn to:  produce lecture recordings  manage existing video  serve designated distribution channels  provide user interfaces to engage students with educational videos.  Version 1.3 recently released

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Capturer user interface

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Sample recording on Tel Aviv University YouTube channel

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Lecture class recording gear layout Audio receiver Output video file Lecturers Computer screen Close up to encoder laptop screen Audio transmitter Lecturer’s desktop relayed by software or hardware to encoding laptop

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Capturer – self rich media recording FireWire IEEE 1394 PPT presentation

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Self recording demo

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  Introduction  Lecture recording systems  Study results  Conclusions and future work

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results –Tel Aviv  ‘ Introduction to Surgery Clerkship’  Mandatory course for hospital work certification  Fully online course at Tel Aviv University  10 lectures including the video recordings, PPT and quizzes  76 students, 50 attending study (n=50)  Students usage of and their reactions to the online learning experience survey

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results –Tel Aviv  Quizzes were reported to be the most helpful online resource, while the video recordings and PPT followed respectively

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results –Tel Aviv  Most of the students studied hours  Over 75% of the students spent more 10 hours studying online

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results –Tel Aviv  Students studied mostly in the afternoon and evening hours  Chart source: LMS complete semester logs of 130 medicine students learning 12 fully online courses

 The majority of students (60%) reported that they preferred learning in a fully online environment. Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results –Tel Aviv

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Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results – Osnabruck  Data taken from first semester computer science class  Face to Face course recorded at Osnabruck University, approx. 200 students  Study examined students usage of recorded materials and preferred methods of learning

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results – Osnabruck  As with the case of online students, recorded lectures were a popular learning resource.  Students own notes about the lecture were of less interest when understanding the content than the lecture recordings.

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results – Osnabruck  Data about weekly lecture recording usage shows that students do not usually watch complete recorded episodes: they look for certain parts in the recordings, repeat them or skip sections entirely.

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  The fear of having an empty lecture hall if recorded material is available is an oft- cited issue by instructors  However, student tend to indicate that recorded lectures are sufficient but not ideal for learning Study results – Osnabruck

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results – Saskatchewan  Is privacy an issue in lecture recording?  Two studies conducted in University of Saskatchewan  80 students participating in two courses:  Introductory computer science – some students in view of camera  Introductory mathematics – only lecturer in view of camera

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Study results – Saskatchewan  response breakdowns demonstrate clearly that privacy is a significant issue for a minority of students

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  Introduction  Lecture recording systems  Study results  Conclusions and future work

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Conclusions and future work  The validity of cross-institutional studies based on home grown systems is problematic  There is a need for more critical analysis of the way the content is produced, managed, reused and distributed  Increasing student demand for recorded content should be leveraged to persuade management to provide additional resources for these needs.  The 3 independently developed systems use similar functionality and features to meet student expectations

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors  There were differences in the way recordings were used as support to F2F learning and as fully online courses  Future studies will focus on a comparison between student multi-year achievements in traditional F2F learning and in fully online study on the same course.  Teachers perception and expectation regarding course video recordings Conclusions and future work

Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors Jack Barokas, Tel Aviv University Thank you for you attention