Creating Reusable Digital Content

1. Creating Reusable Digital Content Mr David Lefevre Business School Ms Karlie Etim Business School Mr Bang Nong Faculty of Medicine Ms Lisa Carrier Faculty of Medicine Room 121 15.00 – 15.30

2. Abstract This session will showcase technologies that will help you repurpose your existing lecture materials to create reusable digital course content. The session will show how lecturers in the Business School are using screen recording software to create rich media content for presentations and student feedback. How the Faculty of Medicine are using the software ‘Articulate’ to create rich interactive course content. And finally, how both departments are recording lectures and repurposing these recordings for revision and different audiences.

3. Introduction • Session overview • Benefits of creating reusable digital course content.

4. Using Screen Recording for Rich Media Content Karlie Etim – Business School • Intro to screen recording software & Jing Demo • Examples • Narrated Solutions (Accounting Primer) • Exam Preparation (Business Economics) • Online Course Materials (Mathematics) • Virtual Tour (Medicine) • ”How To” Videos (Blackboard Tutorials)

5. Screen Capture Features • Quick and easy way to create rich media content • Capture content from your PC and save as video or image • Share with others via VLE/email/IM/web  • Screencast.com, Flickr, FTP, Twitter Features include • Audio capture • Captions, highlights, annotations • Web-cam input

6. Demo

7. Narrated Solutions • Provide feedback on worked examples • Deliver Group Feedback

8. Exam Preparation • Discuss past exam paper questions • Create reusable porfolio of revision materials

9. Online Course Materials • Create online course content • Students can review concepts and work at own pace

10. Virtual Tour • Orientation to the MSc Allergy programme for prospective students

11. “How To” Videos • Blackboard Tutorials: Uploading an Assignment

12. Benefits of Screen Capture • Record once, use many times • Quick & easy • Provide variety • Personal

13. For more information...

14. Using Articulate to create e-Lectures Bang Nong – Faculty of Medicine • Intro to Articulate - what it can do • Demo • Examples

15. Articulate Rapid E-learning Studio • E-learning authoring tool • PowerPoint add-on • Customised Flash interactions including quizzes • Media-rich presentations with audio and video • Templates to aid rapid development of content  • 3 out of 4 Faculties have a license

16. E-lectures in the Faculty of Medicine • Why e-lectures? • Since 2007, approx. 80% of Year 3 F2F lectures have been replaced by e-lectures • Critical year - all students are sent on clinical attachments  • Attachment - students need access from different locations • Cause for development of Year 3 e-lecture programme

17. Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 1 • Paediatrics e-lecture • Example Interactive breakdown of content using Engage 'Pyramid template' • Use of audio narration in sync with presentation

18. Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 2 • Paediatrics e-lecture • Tabs enable content breakdown • Images can be added as well as Flash animations and audio narration

19. Examples E-lectures - Paediatrics 3 • Paediatrics e-lecture • Case studies as an interactive quiz • Question types include: • MCQ • Drag and drop • Fill in blank • Drop down selection

20. View the Articulate Features Demo video online: http://tinyurl.com/35jker8 Short Video Demo of Articulate Features

21. Examples E-lectures - Clinical Skills 1 • Clinical Skills e-lecture • Flash animation can be added to provide interactivity

22. Examples E-lectures - Clinical Skills 2 • Clinical Skills e-lecture • Using Quizmaker • Self assessment enables Flash, audio and images to be added

23. Benefits of using Articulate • Interactive • Use of existing PowerPoint slides • Professional look • Rapid e-learning development

24. Further information: www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/elearning Articulate ifnormation: http://www.articulate.com/products/studio.php E-lectures in the Faculty of Medicine

25. Using Lecture Captureto create reusable digital course content Lisa Carrier – Faculty of Medicine • Introduction to Echo360 • Examples • Revision for assessment • Unique live event • Generic taught component • Course with no F2F taught component

26. Introduction • Pilot started at Imperial in 2008 (Business School + Medicine) • Pilot successful, Echo360 now supported by central ICT team  • Growth: Imperial programmes currently using Echo360: • Imperial College Business School • MSc in Allergy, Faculty of Medicine • MRes in Biomedical Research, Faculty of Medicine • Division of Investigative Science, Faculty of Medicine • The Library • MSc in Cardio Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

27. Echo360 at Imperial: sample recording

28. How does Echo360 work? • Automatically captures audio, video and input from presentation device • PC, visualiser, interactive whiteboard • Converts captured data into different multimedia formats • Rich Media, Podcast, Vodcast, Enhanced Podcast for web delivery • Files stored on the IC media streaming server, accessed online • Publishing options: • E-mail, VLE (automatically publishes to Blackboard Calendar), RSS feed, iTunesU • Basic editing available • Fixed v. portable installation • Scheduling v. ad-hoc capture

29. Scheduling Echo360 captures

30. Publishing captures to the VLE calendar

31. Creating ad-hoc Echo360 captures

32. Revision for assessment Evidence that students both attend 2F2, and watch again online Access to recorded lectures peaks in the weeks prior to assessment Weeks before assessment

33. Pre-recorded generic content • Envision - Undergraduate blended programme (Business School) • Generic lectures pre-recorded with Echo360 • F2F time freed for interactive teaching

34. Course with no F2F taught component • Part-time blended programme MSc in Allergy • Research Skills and Statistics module has no taught component • All content, including recorded lectures, delivered completely online

35. Benefits of Echo360 • Centrally supported • Can be fully automated • Large output for little investment and effort Solution to: • Lecture theatre capacity • Limited staff resources  • Emergencies (think swine flu and volcano eruptions!)

36. Find out more about Echo360 at Imperial • For more informationabout Echo360, visit the company site http://www.echo360.com/ • For more information about Echo360 at Imperial, including Pilot Project Report, FAQs, Training Guide, etc., please see Imperial ICT pages here http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ict/services/teachingandresearchservices/elearning/echo360/echo360atimperial • View  presentation 'Recording Lectures Using Echo360'by Julie Voce and Dominic Pollard delivered at the 'Today's Technologies' event in April 2009. This 20-minute talk addresses in more detail issues such as Echo360 hardware, types of scheduling, output formats, publishing options, etc. • To find out whether Echo360 is the right solution for your needs, and to get started using please log a request with ICT Helpdesk

37. Closing • Summary • For more information contact: • Bang Nong b.nong@imperial.ac.uk • Lisa Carrier l.carrier@imperial.ac.uk • Karlie Etim karlie.etim@imperial.ac.uk • David Lefevre david.lefevre@imperial.ac.uk • Or your local learning technologist: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/elearning/learningtechnologists