Enhancing Lectures Through Automated Capture: more a way of life than simply capturing lectures David Morris: June Echo360 Conference: June 2009

Enhancing Lectures Through Automated Capture Echo360 Conference: June

 JISC funded  £300k  1 October 2008 to 31 March 2010  Under the “Institutional Exemplars” programme  One of a raft of projects brought together under the broad banner of “institutional exemplars” Echo360 Conference: June

 Exploring the application, implementation and affordances of “new” technologies at an institutional level  Emphasis on organisational change, policies, strategies etc  One stage beyond small scale piloting (so not proof of concept, we have done that)  Judged not by our “success” per se but by what others can learn from the project (so no KPIs of lectures captured or watched or.....)  Bulk of the money comes from the (JISC) Learning and Teaching Committee so.... Echo360 Conference: June

 “Business facing”  Single city-centre campus  Wide range of partners (Overseas HE institutions, corporates, schools and colleges)  17,000 students  Four faculties  Relatively little pure online activity  Large proportion of non-native English speakers 5Echo360 Conference: June 2009

 Unbundling the VLE  CUBA – the blogging environment  CURVE – the institutional repository  OCEP – open educational resources for employability 6Echo360 Conference: June 2009

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 Have been around for a long time  Are still around  Have evolved over time  Occur in a wide variety of forms  Are global  Are likely to stay around for a bit longer yet  Are easily forgotten when there are more exciting things around 8

 Groups in the university (lecture theatre managers; IT services; dispersed faculty; learning and teaching fraternity; e-learning units; cost-conscious administrators....)  Organisational problems (repeat lectures; students who do not/cannot turn up; faculty who do not/cannot turn up; lack of space....)  Improving learning and teaching (revision; international students; making good use of “stars” ) 9Echo360 Conference: June 2009

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 Not about content  Increasing access  Making lectures available for revision, filling in gaps, helping students whose first language is not English etc  Running blogs or other linked environments  Helping staff improve lecturing style  Exploring and recognising the differences between captured and live lectures  Finding out what students do with lectures Echo360 Conference: June

 Technology problems  IPR (both ways!)  Lousy lectures are lousy lectures  Who makes the decisions?  Who makes policy?  Will lecturers want to play?  Water cooler gossip  It’s this on top of everything else  Workload models  Why bother with live lectures? Echo360 Conference: June

Echo360 Conference: June

UTILITY RESOURCE  Warts and all  Throwaway  Private  Supplementary  Support value  Examples: revision; emergency planning  Higher production values  Legal/QA cautions  Reusable  Repurposable  Shareable  Pedagogic insertion  Examples: learning objects; cohort management; distance learning; active learning (wrappers) 14Echo360 Conference: June 2009

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Staff support site Thinking about Getting started Exemplars Pedagogy Workshops Who can help Technical support Useful links 16Echo360 Conference: June 2009

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Exemplars Use-case format Interviews Contextualised ongoing 18Echo360 Conference: June 2009

 All-day event  Scope  Practical (admin; tips; how-to)  Delivery issues (movement; audience; a-v)  Copyright, IPR, ‘ownership’  Impact on teaching/learning community  Project planning; local & Uni policy; (team-based)  Feedback to project  Example: scope of camera; viewing angles; visualiser; room layouts  Concerns & representation (eg copyright; privacy)  Staff development as ‘informed consent’? 19Echo360 Conference: June 2009

 Employer engagement  New buildings  International students  Phoenix and other partners  The “London” campus  Coventry University YouTube; iTunes U etc (PR, marketing or genuine learning initiatives)  Part of the Coventry University brand? 20Echo360 Conference: June 2009

 Improving lectures, little by little  Integration of automated capture within CUOnline2  Shifting the business model (international partnerships, employer engagement etc) 21