Lecture Capture:
More than Just Capturing Lectures
Bill King
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What is Lecture Capture?
Lecture Capture is the use of a
set of technologies to capture
and then enable time-shifted
and place-shifted viewing of
the Lecture Content.
Lecture Capture is Not New:
Past Capture Approaches
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Note Taking
Video capture
Personal audio capture
Audio podcasting
PPT+audio / Camtasia / Impatica / Captivate
PC-based Capture
Appliance-based Capture
Why is Technology-based Lecture Capture
exploding now? Technically feasible.
• Capture Technology
• Audio/Video Convergence
• Processor Speed
• Memory
• Storage
• Bandwidth
• The Internet
Why is Technology-based Lecture Capture
exploding now? Students need it.
• By the time today’s students go to college
they will:
• Have sent 15k text messages
• Have played 10k hours of videogames
• Do not have the discipline to read books
• Demonstrate different brain wave patterns of discrimination
• Consume technology
• Collaborate differently
Educause Study: Educating the Net Generation
• Mobility is taken for granted
• Attention spans are short and interrupt-driven
• “Just in time learning” replacing “Just in case learning”
• Graphics and “high resolution” are minimal standards
Does Lecture Capture Help Students?
UMASS Lowell eliminates bi-modal grade patterns
– 10% reduction in Ds, Fs and Ws in feeder calc course
University of Western Australia
– 58% respondents with learning disabilities use Lectopia because
they are ‘unable to take notes’
– 64% of students with any disability said class capture was
“essential”
Boston University
– Strong positive feedback from students, including quotes like:
– My study group uses the site when we don’t remember exactly
what the professor said and we can go right to the part he/she
talked about and double check that
Central Wyoming College
– 6.5% increase in exam scores with podcasting
Other Types of Campus Challenges
• Campuses are competing for students:
recruit, retain, matriculate
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Student Athletes, including NCAA compliance
ESL students and teachers: language fluency
Special Ed needs (including 508)
“Non-Traditional” students are now traditional!
(working students)
• Hybrid and Distance Education
• Moving beyond Lectures!
We Need MORE than Just
Lecture Capture!
New Types of Capture
Class (not just Lecture) Capture – the use of a set
of technologies to capture the audio and visual
elements of class time, to enable time shifted and
place shifted viewing. Labs, discussion, student
presentations – all of it!
Personal Capture – the use of personal computers
like laptops to capture rich media (audio, video,
materials) whenever and wherever the professor might
be. To create and easily publish “learning objects.”
Other Media Upload – (new in December) the ability
to upload other video files for publishing and
management.
Other Media Upload for Flexibility
Teach
Moving BEYOND lectures
• Classic: Capturing class time for review
• Repurpose for hybrid and Distance Education
• Capture class time for assigned reading, so you can
do OTHER things in class
• Inverted Classroom
• Use personal capture to build learning objects,
remedial work, and use it for you to catch up on lost
time
• Use external media upload to support field and lab
work, or to capture chalk talk
Faculty Issues
• I’m nervous
– Won’t my students stop coming to class?
– Isn’t the institution trying to take away my job?
– What exactly is intellectual property, anyway?
– Does this mean I have to dress better to class?
You HAVE to do this!
• You HAVE to do this
– Your students are going virtual
– If you can be replaced by a talking head, it’s not
“if” but “when.” ADD MORE VALUE!
– Be careful with intellectual property, but GET YOUR
OWN BRAND OUT NOW!
– Figure out how you can use these tools to be part
of where education is going, not where it’s been.
Summary
• Lecture Capture has been going on for 1000s of years
• The technology change has accelerated, and so
hasn’t lecture capture
• We can now capture lectures and play them back
24X7
• But, we can do so much more. We need to think
more broadly than just “lecture” capture
• You have this ability today (and with the new version
coming out)
Questions?
The new Echo360 Rich Media Player, a feature in
it’s own right, engages learners and instructors
Curtin University Sample
NC State University Sample
(with CC)
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