Supporting student learning through
the use of lecture capture technology
Presentation by
Daniel Buzzo
daniel.buzzo@uwe.ac.uk
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’
Problem
Having a carefully planned
interlinked lecture
program delivering a
continuity of educational
‘moments’
Delivering this to an inconsistent student cohort
ie.
This is Real Life
Some students will be ill,
have personal problems,
will have other
appointments, will miss
lectures, will forget
doh !
My careful plan crumbles.
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
feedback has been
overwhelmingly
positive
“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”
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 2009-2011)
• Dan Buzzo (Project Leader 2011- present)
Supporting Student Learning Through the Use of
Speech Recognition Technologies
• Lecture transcription system development
(2008-2011)
• 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
Lecture Capture
and deployment
solution
• Currently working in
several lecture theatres.
• Refinements to publishing
infrastructure in progress.
• Possible to use NOW but
some technical knowledge
needed.
The future
360° learning capture
Sharing the educational experience
360° learning
capture
Sharing the experience
not just the materials.
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
The Social Media
Classroom
Inspired by “Social
Media Classroom”
project
(Harold Rheingold –
2008)
…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
http://socialmediaclassroom.com
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?"
Thankyou
contact
daniel.buzzo@uwe.ac.uk
philip3.phelps@uwe.ac.uk