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ELTAC Enhancing Lectures Through Automated Capture: more a way of life than simply

capturing lectures

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ELTAC

EnhancingLecturesThroughAutomatedCapture

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Headlines JISC funded £300k 1 October 2008 to 31 March 2010 Under the “Institutional Exemplars”

programme One of a raft of projects brought together

under the broad banner of “institutional exemplars”

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Institutional exemplars Exploring the application, implementation

and affordances of “new” technologies at an institutional level

Emphasis on organisational change, policies, strategies etc

One stage beyond small scale piloting (so not proof of concept, we have done that)

Judged not by our “success” per se but by what others can learn from the project (so no KPIs of lectures captured or watched or.....)

Bulk of the money comes from the (JISC) Learning and Teaching Committee so....

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Coventry University

“Business facing” Single city-centre campus Wide range of partners (Overseas HE

institutions, corporates, schools and colleges)

17,000 students Four faculties Relatively little pure online activity Large proportion of non-native English

speakers

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How does it fit in to CUOnline2?

Unbundling the VLE CUBA – the blogging environment CURVE – the institutional repository OCEP – open educational resources for

employability

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Why are we doing this?

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Lectures .....

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Have been around for a long time Are still around Have evolved over time Occur in a wide variety of forms Are global Are likely to stay around for a bit longer

yet Are easily forgotten when there are more

exciting things around

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Where does the impetus come from?

Groups in the university (lecture theatre managers; IT services; dispersed faculty; learning and teaching fraternity; e-learning units; cost-conscious administrators....)

Organisational problems (repeat lectures; students who do not/cannot turn up; faculty who do not/cannot turn up; lack of space....)

Improving learning and teaching (revision; international students; making good use of “stars”.......)

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What are lectures for?

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“Enhancing lectures” Not about content Increasing access Making lectures available for revision,

filling in gaps, helping students whose first language is not English etc

Running blogs or other linked environments

Helping staff improve lecturing style Exploring and recognising the differences

between captured and live lectures Finding out what students do with

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There will be issues..... Technology problems IPR (both ways!) Lousy lectures are lousy lectures Who makes the decisions? Who makes policy? Will lecturers want to play? Water cooler gossip It’s this on top of everything else Workload models Why bother with live lectures?

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The evidence suggests it won’t end up like this......

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Emerging models

UTILITY RESOURCE

Warts and all Throwaway Private Supplementary Support value Examples: revision;

emergency planning

Higher production values Legal/QA cautions Reusable Repurposable Shareable Pedagogic insertion Examples: learning

objects; cohort management; distance learning; active learning (wrappers)

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Utility and resource models

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Staff support site

Thinking aboutGetting startedExemplarsPedagogyWorkshopsWho can helpTechnical supportUseful links

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Criminology example

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Exemplars

• Use-case format•Interviews•Contextualised•ongoing

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Workshops

All-day event Scope

Practical (admin; tips; how-to) Delivery issues (movement; audience; a-v) Copyright, IPR, ‘ownership’ Impact on teaching/learning community Project planning; local & Uni policy; (team-based)

Feedback to project Example: scope of camera; viewing angles; visualiser;

room layouts Concerns & representation (eg copyright; privacy)

Staff development as ‘informed consent’?

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The business model

Employer engagement New buildings International students Phoenix and other partners The “London” campus Coventry University YouTube; iTunes U etc

(PR, marketing or genuine learning initiatives)

Part of the Coventry University brand?

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The big prizes?

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Improving lectures, little by little

Integration of automated capture within CUOnline2

Shifting the business model (international partnerships, employer engagement etc)