Creating Reusable Digital Content
Mr David Lefevre
Ms Karlie Etim
Mr Bang Nong
Ms Lisa Carrier
Room 121
15.00 – 15.30
Business School
Business School
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
Abstract
This session will showcase technologies that will help you repurpose your
existing lecture materials to create reusable digital course content.
The session will show how lecturers in the Business School are using
screen recording software to create rich media content for presentations
and student feedback. How the Faculty of Medicine are using the software
‘Articulate’ to create rich interactive course content.
And finally, how both departments are recording lectures and repurposing
these recordings for revision and different audiences.
Introduction
• Session overview
• Benefits of creating reusable digital course content.
•Session Overview
•Benefits of creating
reusable digital
course content
Introduction
David Lefevre
Screen Recording
Karlie Etim
•Using screen
recording for rich
media content
•Examples
•Using Articulate to
create rich
Interactive course
content
•Examples
Articulate
Bang Nong
Echo 360
Lisa Carrier
•Using lecture
capture to create
reusable digital
course content
•Examples
•Considerations
•Open floor for Q&A
Summary
David Lefevre
Using Screen Recording for Rich Media Content
Karlie Etim – Business School
• Intro to screen recording software & Jing Demo
• Examples
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Narrated Solutions (Accounting Primer)
Exam Preparation (Business Economics)
Online Course Materials (Mathematics)
Virtual Tour (Medicine)
”How To” Videos (Blackboard Tutorials)
Screen Capture Features
• Quick and easy way to create rich media content
• Capture content from your PC and save as video or image
• Share with others via VLE/email/IM/web
» Screencast.com, Flickr, FTP, Twitter
Features include
• Audio capture
• Captions, highlights, annotations
• Web-cam input
Demo
Narrated Solutions
• Provide feedback on
worked examples
• Deliver Group
Feedback
Exam Preparation
• Discuss past exam paper questions
• Create reusable porfolio of revision materials
Online Course Materials
• Create online course content
• Students can review concepts and work at own pace
Virtual Tour
• Orientation to the MSc Allergy programme for
prospective students
“How To” Videos
• Blackboard Tutorials: Uploading an Assignment
Benefits of Screen Capture
• Record once, use many times
• Quick & easy
• Provide variety
• Personal
For more information...
Type
Description
OS
Link
Free Products
Jing
Take screenshots and capture screen as videos. Add annotations and
share to Screencast.com, Flickr, FTP, Twitter
Win/Mac
Wink
Tutorial and presentation software can capture screenshots and
enables you to add annotations, callouts and shapes
CaptureFox
(Firefox add-on)
Firefox add-on. Records screens frame-by-frame to create tutorials.
Creates separate audio and video files. Works in the browser.
Win/Mac
CamStudio
Free, lightweight, open source program. Captures video as .AVI files.
Win
Screenr
Web based recorder – no downloads. Integrates with Twitter.
Win
Win/Mac
http://www.jingproject.com/
http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
http://www.capturefox.com/
http://camstudio.org/
http://screenr.com/
Licensed Products
Adobe Captivate ($699)
Create rich eLearning experiences including quizzes and scenario
simulations.
Win
http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/
Camtasia
($299)
Fully featured screen capture and video editing tool. Editing suite
including themes, transitions and captions.
Win
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Screenflow
($99.99)
Includes powerful editing suite and allows multiple input for screen
capture.
Mac
http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm
Using Articulate to create e-Lectures
Bang Nong – Faculty of Medicine
• Intro to Articulate - what it can do
• Demo
• Examples
Articulate Rapid E-learning Studio
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E-learning authoring tool
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PowerPoint add-on
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Customised Flash interactions
including quizzes
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Media-rich presentations with audio
and video
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Templates to aid rapid development
of content
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3 out of 4 Faculties have a license
E-lectures in the Faculty of Medicine
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Why e-lectures?
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Since 2007, approx. 80% of Year
3 F2F lectures have been
replaced by e-lectures
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Critical year - all students are sent
on clinical attachments
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Attachment - students need
access from different locations
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Cause for development of Year 3
e-lecture programme
Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 1
• Paediatrics e-lecture
• Example Interactive breakdown
of content using Engage
'Pyramid template'
• Use of audio narration in sync
with presentation
Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 2
• Paediatrics e-lecture
• Tabs enable content
breakdown
• Images can be added
as well as Flash
animations and audio
narration
Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 3
• Paediatrics e-lecture
• Case studies as an interactive
quiz
• Question types include:
o MCQ
o Drag and drop
o Fill in blank
o Drop down selection
Short Video Demo of Articulate Features
View the Articulate Features Demo video online:
http://tinyurl.com/35jker8
Examples E-lectures - Clinical Skills 1
• Clinical Skills e-lecture
• Flash animation can be added to provide interactivity
Examples E-lectures - Clinical Skills 2
• Clinical Skills e-lecture
• Using Quizmaker
o Self assessment enables Flash, audio and images to be
added
Benefits of using Articulate
• Interactive
• Use of existing
PowerPoint slides
• Professional look
• Rapid e-learning
development
E-lectures in the Faculty of Medicine
Further information: www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/elearning
Articulate ifnormation: http://www.articulate.com/products/studio.php
Using Lecture Capture
to create reusable digital course content
Lisa Carrier – Faculty of Medicine
• Introduction to Echo360
• Examples
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Revision for assessment
Unique live event
Generic taught component
Course with no F2F taught component
Introduction
• Pilot started at Imperial in 2008 (Business School + Medicine)
• Pilot successful, Echo360 now supported by central ICT team
• Growth: Imperial programmes currently using Echo360:
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Imperial College Business School
MSc in Allergy, Faculty of Medicine
MRes in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine
Division of Investigative Science, Faculty of Medicine
The Library
MSc in Cardio Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Echo360 at Imperial: sample recording
How does Echo360 work?
• Automatically captures audio, video and input from presentation device
» PC, visualiser, interactive whiteboard
• Converts captured data into different multimedia formats
» Rich Media, Podcast, Vodcast, Enhanced Podcast for web delivery
• Files stored on the IC media streaming server, accessed online
• Publishing options:
» E-mail, VLE (automatically publishes to Blackboard Calendar), RSS feed, iTunesU
• Basic editing available
• Fixed v. portable installation
• Scheduling v. ad-hoc capture
Scheduling Echo360 captures
Publishing captures to the VLE calendar
Creating ad-hoc Echo360 captures
Revision for assessment
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Evidence that students both attend 2F2, and watch again online
Access to recorded lectures peaks in the weeks prior to assessment
Weeks before assessment
Pre-recorded generic content
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Envision - Undergraduate blended programme (Business School)
Generic lectures pre-recorded with Echo360
F2F time freed for interactive teaching
Course with no F2F taught component
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Part-time blended programme MSc in Allergy
Research Skills and Statistics module has no taught component
All content, including recorded lectures, delivered completely online
Benefits of Echo360
• Centrally supported
• Can be fully automated
• Large output for little investment and effort
Solution to:
» Lecture theatre capacity
» Limited staff resources
» Emergencies (think swine flu and volcano eruptions!)
Find out more about Echo360 at Imperial
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For more informationabout Echo360, visit the company site
http://www.echo360.com/
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For more information about Echo360 at Imperial, including Pilot Project Report,
FAQs, Training Guide, etc., please see Imperial ICT pages here
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/teachingandresearchservices/elearning/ec
ho360/echo360atimperial
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View presentation 'Recording Lectures Using Echo360' by Julie Voce and
Dominic Pollard delivered at the 'Today's Technologies' event in April 2009. This
20-minute talk addresses in more detail issues such as Echo360 hardware, types
of scheduling, output formats, publishing options, etc.
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To find out whether Echo360 is the right solution for your needs, and to get
started using please log a request with ICT Helpdesk
Closing
• Summary
• For more information contact:
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Bang Nong
Lisa Carrier
Karlie Etim
David Lefevre
b.nong@imperial.ac.uk
l.carrier@imperial.ac.uk
karlie.etim@imperial.ac.uk
david.lefevre@imperial.ac.uk
• Or your local learning technologist:
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/elearning/learningtechnologists