Capturing Ideas: A Roundtable
Discussion on Implementing a Lecture
Capture Solution
Charles N. McCoy
Academic Technology
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• Strategic approaches in evaluating various lecture capture solutions (LCS).
• Procedures in creating a content retention policy.
• Support implementations and procedures.
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• “The global lecture capture market is poised to grow 24.1 percent in the next five years from revenues of $162.0 million in 2013 to $592.2 million in 2019.”
-Campus Technology Magazine
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• WKU offers more than 80 graduate, undergraduate, and certificate programs that are 100% online.
• The use of distance learning courses (web, telecourses, and on demand) has increased by 9% over the last three years from our regional campus.
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• Player incompatibility with certain browsers
• Issues uploading recordings
• Transcoding issues
• Poor customer support
• Lack of innovation
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• Lecture Capture RFP
• Requirements:
– System that can connect to LMS (Blackboard).
– Improvements with recording, editing and video storage/distribution.
– Ability to record and connect to classroom peripherals.
– The ability to transfer faculty recordings to new system.
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Lecture Capture RFP – The process
• Started with eight vendors, ended with four potential candidates.
• 30 test group participants.
• Questions to Participants:
– What strategies do you seek in implementing a LC solution on your campus? What necessities do you seek?
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Procedures in creating a content retention policy
• Current WKU status of recordings:
– 70,431 lecture capture recordings on virtual server.
– Utilizing 4 ½ TB out of 7 TB of storage space.
– Faculty and students typically make asynchronous recordings.
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• No automation in deleting recordings.
• Issue in establishing a routine notification to faculty concerning course maintenance/deletion.
• Faculty are limited with creating live streaming of recordings within classrooms.
• Questions to Participants:
– How does your university handle deletion procedures? Care to share any polices?
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Support implementations and procedures
WKU Support Mechanisms for LCS
• Academic Technology
• Distance Learning
• IT Helpdesk
• Communication Technologies
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• More live classroom video streaming
• More campus divisions, departments, and organizations requesting to utilize the technology.
• How will future support be structured?
• How will future recordings be handled?
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Thank you for participating in today’s session
• Thoughts, suggestions, examples of success and failures?
• Email: charles.mccoy@wku.edu
• Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#
!forum/lecture-capture-resources
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