Lecture Capture

From Redefining/E-Defining Brock: A Symposium on e-Learning

• Jon Radue, Computer Science, ext. 3867
• recording e-cording

The pdf of the slides used in the presentation is available

• Jon is going to walk the walk and talk the talk
• Jon says, My name is Jon and I record my lectures
• Need set up time when you do this in class
• Used to use COBAL in the 70s
• Jon does projection and digital ink with audio
• Beauty is that it doesn't record his face </joke>
• Went to Wikipedia on Lecture Recording (needs updating by Jon)
• Can go on the internet and draw on web page sites in many colours, no chalk dust
• Uses a tablet PC, wireless microphone (can leave his computer), cables, Camtasia Studio ($150), web-based clickers (students use laptops/smartphones- free, makes them leave Facebook to do something else)
• Student comments, it's great, why are you doing it?, I'm sure it benefits someone, videos are great-classrooms are uncomfortable)

Contents 1 Literature says: 2 Benefits for students: 3 Concerns 4 Brock?

[edit] Literature says:

• • students would like lecture material available after graduation
  • Recruitment & Retention (goes up 10%); low cost, high reward
  • Grades go up about 10% (may be related to
• In September, aiming to record face-to-face and make available on the online course
• Can pre-record content (e.g. John Sivell, David DiBattista, Rick Cheel, David Hughes, and more)
• Reflection (reviewing your own lectures and your own delivery)

[edit] Benefits for students:

• • for special needs students, no need for note takers,
  • ESL learners can replay,
  • flexibility,
  • Note-making (listen face-to-face, replay lecture later)
  • Attention span (can speed up 50min into 30 min with software)

[edit] Concerns

• • Attendance- decreases 10%
  • Note taking procrastination
  • Intellectual Property (most difficult for faculty to get around)
    • (What happens with mashups?)
  • Extra work, learning, rendering (time consuming)
  • Not the complete lecture (body language absent)
    • student questions require repeating (although that is a good pedagogy)
    • sound from computer not recorded, requires audio to be very loud for mic to pick up

[edit] Brock?

• System? (no)
• Classrooms (some need upgrading, i.e. this cannot be done in TH325)
• Class sizes/hybrid (e.g. 100 people, knowing 10% drop in attendance, get smaller classroom? NO)
• STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math & medical) high acceptance of recording
• Workload agreements
• Intellectual Property (re-use= redundant?)
• Hosting? (Jon uses Computer Science server, but also on iTunesU)
• Marketing (no page at Brock to show about online courses; innovations, like using Turnitin for plagiarism

You can view this recording on Prof. Jon Radue's web site at http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/~jradue/web2/RecordingLectures/RecordingLectures.html