Visit to Newcastle
Denise, Amanda, Imran and I visited the Steering Group of the ReCap project at Newcastle university on 6th March. This was a very useful experience for us all, with a number of reflection points to take away. Some of the key things that emerged:
* clear vision of their ‘utility’ model of lecture capture; Coventry/ELTAC will need to decide where on the spectrum we fit/wish to develop as there are pros and cons in different models
* student experience emerging quite clearly; we were given access to some still unpublished survey data indicating the uses of and values attributed to lecture capture; this is really important because most of what we are relying on has been generated in an Australian context.
* they did not do any staff development or produce documentation for staff; hence they are interested in what we are doing; we had hoped to appropriate some useful resources but it looks as though it will be the other way round…
* they are less concerned with the copyright problematics than we are; this may be because of their ‘utility’ model - they are not looking at repository storage and reuse as a strategy.
