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ELTAC will provide an exemplar of institutional implementation of automated lecture capture.
During the first year we will conduct a faculty-level trial of the Echo360 automated lecture capture system in two faculties. We will provide captured lectures in a variety of formats (podcast, enhanced podcast and videocast) which are capable of replay on a variety of mobile devices (notebook and laptop computers, MP3 players, video iPODs etc). We will also conduct a limited trial to assess the affordances of making captured lectures available through IPTV. At the end of this large-scale trial we will conduct an interim evaluation for both the university and the sector.
In the second year we will implement automated lecture capture across the campus, including integrating provision for the technology in the new build programme. In the final three months of the project we will conduct, publish and disseminate an evaluation. The project will evaluate the economic and wider costs and benefits of automated lecture capture from the student, individual staff, faculty and university perspectives. We will produce a variety of project outputs including briefing and training materials, evaluation reports, implementation and change management guides, good practice cases and pedagogic advice.
There is a companion web site for lecture capture support information.
I am keen to find out what people’s motives are for recording lectures. I would like to capture the reasons and expectations of those who volunteer to particpate, and later use these as a basis for evaluations (students and staff) and expressions of ‘good practice’. How staff approach the task of lecture recording and how they conceptualise it must vary, depending on who they think is their audience and how that audience is meant to benefit.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:48 pm