An online media analysis and collaboration tool for research and educationThe Clipper Project

28/04/2016

1. City of Glasgow College; 2. The Open University; 3. ReachWill Ltd

The Big Red Button:A Video Toolkit for Open Education - project reportJohn Casey 1, Trevor Collins 2 and Will Gregory 3

Workshop overview

»About Clipper› Why?› Clipper in a nutshell› Clipper project roadmap & activities»Demo, Hands-on & current activities» Feedback and discussion› Video and audio for learning & assessment?» Contacts and further information

Why?

»Digital video is now a ubiquitous part of our daily lives yet it remains underused in education – especially for assessment purposes

» The nature of the media itself presents problems - large files that are difficult to navigate, reference and share

» The Big Red Button toolkit aims to overcome these obstacles by enabling users to identify and share extracts from video resources in the form of ‘virtual clips’

Why? # 2

»Works on tablets, smart phones and PCs

» capture and share authentic evidence of knowledge and skills in workplace and community settings and submit for assessment.

»More flexible and inclusive forms of assessment

» Evidence for; improving employment opportunities, meeting regulatory requirements, recording personal development and supporting career advancement.

Clipper: In a nutshell

» Clipper 1. 2. 3.1. Clip: Create a virtual clip

(i.e. source file, start and stop point)

2. Organise: Annotate and store clips and cliplists

3. Share: Cool URIs for sharing playable clips and cliplists

“making video and audio as easy to work with as text”

Clipper project roadmap

» Proof of concept

» Dissemination and engagement

» Feedback

» Identify needs

» Prototypes and code

» Community engagement

» User requirements

» Legal implications

» Technical standards

» Research focus

Phase 2: Co-Design

Prototypes

Phase 1: Market Research

Ideas

Phase 3: Co-Development

Pilot projects

» Pilot projects

› EUSCREEN

› Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

› Roslin Institute (UoE)

› BUFVC

» Community adoption

» Transforming workflows

Phases 1 and 2: Community feedback

» Phase 1› “it’s genius, it’s just what we need”

– Gill Hamilton: Digital Access Manager, National Library of Scotland

» Phase 2

› “with these sort of annotations on the clip, then I would be using nothing else for the rest of my life”

– Peter Hohenstein: Group Leader, Developmental Biology, Roslin Institute

› “getting that 360 degree picture of a research output would be really useful if it was easy and not the pain that it is today”

– Marc Silberschatz: Theatre Researcher, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Phase 2: Overview

Phase 2: Co-Design

Phase 2: Activities and outputs (2015)

» Prototypes› 3 coding cycles (Sept - Nov)

» Community Workshops› National Library of Scotland

(Sept 28th)› Manchester School of Art

(Oct 12th)› British Library Labs (Oct 26th)› Coventry University (Nov 20th)

» Institutional Meetings› The Royal Conservatoire of

Scotland (Nov 5th)› Roslin Institute, University

of Edinburgh (Nov 13th)› EUSCREEN (Nov 25th)› Open University (Nov 27th)› British Universities Film and

Video Council (Nov 23rd)

Phase 3: Pilot projects

Phase 3: Community Adoption and Ownership

Phase 3: Overview

» Clipper consortium› City of Glasgow College› Open University› Reach Will Limited

» Pilot projects (adopters)› The Royal Scottish Conservatoire

(Hilary Jones)› EUSCREEN (Erwin Verbruggen)› The Roslin Institute (Colin Simpson)› BUFVC (Gabriel Hernandez)

» Industry / technology support (collaborators)› Microsoft Research / Azure (cloud

services - Kenji Takeda)› Digirati (data model standards -

Tom Crane)› Software Sustainability Institute

(coding standards - Iain Emsley)› Nature Journals (scientific data -

Andrew Hufton)

Phase 3: Activities and tasks

» Toolkit development› Clipper consortium

»Data model and standards integration› Clipper consortium› Digirati

» Cloud deployment› Clipper consortium

› Microsoft Azure

» Pilot projects› RCS - The Royal Conservatoire of

Scotland (institutional)› EUSCREEN (tool integration)› The Roslin Institute (cloud)› BUFVC (service integration)

» Publisher data policy review› Nature

RCS pilot: Demo & Hands-on

http://clippertube.com/rcs/dip clipper30

RCS pilot: Demo & hands-on

»RCS Pilot Scenario› re-use of cultural media collections in open education

»Workflow› create and open a new project› add multiple source files to the project› preview the files and create clips › add annotations to clips› sharing clips to cliplists

Discussion & feedback

» Reactions?› Uses? Pros? Cons? Usable? Improvements?

» Implications for academic practice?› Overcoming the limits of traditional textual and numerical

information in education – in the context of assessment of practice-based learning. › Makes audio-visual information as easy to cite, reference

and quote as text in academic discourse› Transgresses the hegemony of the written word in

academia …

The Big Red Button: Next steps

» Including education and training in our focus

» Phase 3:› Rebuild prototype from scratch› Mobile first› Modern , open and scalable tech› Free open source code

» Post Phase 3 - New projects and funding…

The Big Red Button: Prototype demonstration

http://clipperati-jc2.azurewebsites.net

Clipper: Contacts and further info

» Contacts› John Casey (john.c.casey@googlemail.com)› Trevor Collins (trevor.collins@open.ac.uk)› Will Gregory (reachwill@gmail.com)

» Further information› Blog: http://blog.clippertube.com› Demo: http://clippertube.com/rcs/dip› Twitter: #clippertube @clipper_rdm