Supporting student learning through the use of lecture capture technology Presentation by Daniel Buzzo

overview The use of lecture recording technologies and the delivery of electronic media to a cohort. The unexpected benefits, especially retention and cohesion of a cohort. Good practice use of video material from lectures. Future use of social media to capture the student learning experience.

The past

Problem Having a carefully planned interlinked lecture program delivering a continuity of educational ‘moments’

Delivering this to an inconsistent student cohort Problem Having a carefully planned interlinked lecture program delivering a continuity of educational ‘moments’

doh ! My careful plan crumbles. ie. This is Real Life Some students will be ill, have personal problems, will have other appointments, will miss lectures, will forget

Video allows catch up, revision and inclusion to on-campus students. Video improves quality of materials delivered to external federated courses Video improves perceived value of materials of federated courses Video Improves student engagement and satisfaction

Video workflow Video Edit Upload Deploy

HD video camera, shotgun mic and tripod Blockbooked in advance from resources room

Lightweight, easy to operate, uses DV tapes Connects to computer via digital cable

Video is captured and then edited on computer Lecture is ‘topped and tailed’ and a title added

Vimeo.com is a video sharing site like youtube Simple accounts are free, Pro accounts paid…

Vimeo Home page and profile Gives an overview of all activity

Upload a video to vimeo Vimeo then re-compresses automatically

Set a name and description Add tags to help searching

Organise videos in channels One channel for each module?

Use the built in ‘embed’ function To create simple copy and paste code…

To embed the videos in Blackboard Video played from Vimeo inside a custom player

Vimeo has full stats tracking To see who watched what when…

See easy to understand details On all aspects of the videos

Presented in lots of different ways Allowing easy visualisation of the metrics

Even down to geographic location

During some months hundreds of hours of lecture material was watched. The total is now in several thousands of views.

Thousands of hours of value, from a single lecture.

Student experience “I missed lots of lectures and had doubts about the course but catching up via the videos made me feel part of the group again” “they made revision so much easier, it brought straight back to mind what we had covered” feedback has been overwhelmingly positive

Student experience “Reviewing what we covered in the session when I’m at home allows me to take it in at my own pace, in my own time” “I’m not taking your module but the seeing the videos was really useful”

The present

Supporting Student Learning Through the Use of Speech Recognition Technologies Philip Phelps Marcus Lynch (Project Leader ) Dan Buzzo (Project Leader present)

Supporting Student Learning Through the Use of Speech Recognition Technologies Lecture transcription system development ( ) Student response during trials (Collaborative transcription, annotation, URLs) Video lecture capture and subtitling (2012)

Supporting Student Learning Through the Use of Speech Recognition Technologies

Installed in lecture theatres across campus It makes lecture capture simple.

A custom player embeds in blackboard…

allows students to skip from slide to slide..

shows video, slides or both.

MediaSite Currently working in several lecture theatres. Refinements to publishing infrastructure in progress. Possible to use NOW but some technical knowledge needed. Lecture Capture and deployment solution

The future

360° learning capture Sharing the educational experience

360° learning capture Combine ideas shown so far Build a unified collaboratory for learning capture –Syllabus material (slide sets, lecture recordings) –Searchable transcripts & subtitles –Database of related URLs, –Student annotations & discussion –Capture of socialmedia discussions –Wiki for frequently asked questions Sharing the experience not just the materials.

The Social Media Classroom …support a movement away from education as delivery of knowledge, toward education as critical collaborative inquiry …engage students in actively constructing knowledge together, rather than passively absorbing it from texts, lectures, and discussions Inspired by “Social Media Classroom” project (Harold Rheingold – 2008)

Starting August 2012 Practice led pedagogic research Delivering Collaborative Social Media Classroom to three level one modules in Creative Technologies Engaging students in research process Enabling students to feedback and shape environment Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis

Starting August 2012 We are intending to answer the question: "Can social communications technologies be used to improve student engagement and enable 360 degree capture of the learning materials, knowledge and debate that occurs throughout the pedagogic delivery process?"

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