Kaltura recently published the results of their survey on video use in education. This article comments on the survey and lists some of the findings:
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/07/18/research-video-usage-in-ed-continues-ramp-up.aspx
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Kaltura recently published the results of their survey on video use in education. This article comments on the survey and lists some of the findings:
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/07/18/research-video-usage-in-ed-continues-ramp-up.aspx
What’s holding back Universities from granting more degrees online? Is the technology immature and the experience mind-numbing? Or are Universities simply trying to protect their brand and keeping degree prices high?
Daphne Koller of Coursera has some interesting comments on where things are going.
“Prof Koller said concerns about impersonal online learning were often built on an unrealistic image of traditional campus-based teaching – and that most students are not “walking on lawns next to ivy-clad buildings”.”
“It’s a false comparison to think it’s either anonymous online teaching or else a cosy armchair and individual tutors.”
“When you have a lecture hall with 300 people, you’re not getting personal interaction.”
Read more:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36703778
Is video the new teacher? Or is it simply the new textbook? Can video impact developing countries? Or not? Will women stop being harassed when they post on-line educational videos? What can we expect in the future for this medium?
Join this panel of professional practitioners in a wide-ranging discussion of video in education:
For universities and other institutions there is a legal requirement to caption any publicly accessible videos. This article discusses the current status facing videographers:
http://www.ecampusnews.com/technologies/video-accessibility-online/
And it ends with a list of some surprising benefits.
Actually, they are two names for the same device. It’s a writing surface illuminated at the edges by LEDs. Instructors like the ability to face their audience.
“The newest addition to Goedl’s teaching toolbox is a light board, which she writes on as she records introduction lectures for each new course topic. The lecture capture tool allows her to face the camera while writing on a transparent surface. Light board technology also reverses whatever is written on the board during recording, so viewers do not see the content backwards.
The result is an innovative video lecture in which instructors appear to be writing in midair. The polished look keeps students interested and allows them to view the board and the instructor’s face during the entire lecture. During the traditional lecture format, instructors turn their backs to students in order to write on the board. In this process they may even block students’ view by standing in front of the board.”
http://www.uc.edu/profiles/profile.asp?id=23500
For more information about this research, please visit this site at Research Gate.
Of all the technical issues facing an instructor making an online lecture video, audio has to be near the top of the list. A video with noisy, distracting audio is hard to listen to for long periods of time, makes comprehension difficult for students whose language is not native to the audio track, and ruins the dialogue the instructor is trying to establish with the student.
Here are some tips towards getting great audio in your recordings:
Some consideration of the points above will not only make your audio good, but really great.
A few years ago nobody knew what an “action cam” or “helmet cam” was, and now they’re so taken for granted that if you don’t have one or two in your car trunk you’re not up-to-date.
The developers behind Lecture Creator feel that our new LC series recorders are so new and feature rich that they, too, might launch a new product category in the industry. Why? These devices:
These features are ideal for lecture capture, lecture creation, performance capture and event capture (as described in our post on Lecture Capture and Creation ).
So we’re looking for a good name to refer to this class of devices. There’s nothing like it on the market. There are some video-conference cameras that do streaming, but no recording or scheduling or uploads. Some security cameras are IP-Network based, but their feature set is aimed at a different market (face recognition or license plate reading). A term like “Video Recorder” shortchanges all this unit can do. How about “Classcorder” or “Lecture-Cam” or “Class-cam”?
We’re open to suggestions on names and feature lists. And tell us about similar products.
In some previous posts we have discussed setting up a mini-TV studio as outlined by Penn State’s One-Button Studio or the Learning Glass .
Why bother setting up such a facility? Isn’t it easier just to use your iPad at home in your basement to record whatever you need? That’s way more convenient, right?
There are some pretty compelling reasons to go to the effort to equip a mini studio with the right equipment to create professional looking lectures:
These mini lecture-creation kiosks need to be nearby, convenient and simple to use, reservation-free and self-service so that busy instructors don’t have to spend a lot of time or energy creating what they need to create. Biology teachers want to wrap their heads around the latest in biology, not to spend time learning some new video editing program.
Our camera-recorders solve a lot of the problems mentioned above. They record high-quality hi-def video, have all-digital USB audio, and will automatically upload finished recordings to one or two content management locations (like Google Drive, Kaltura or Opencast). They’re also very affordable. Easy as pie and the content is safe and secure and not lost when the instructor drops his/her thumbdrive into a nearby snowbank.
Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) has published directions to create a small facility for creating lectures:
Based on an application written for a Macintosh, the Studio provides for easy creation of videos for classroom use. This article discusses such a mini-TV studio in more depth.