Lecture Capture Applications, “Best Practices”, Considerations

1. Lecture Capture Applications, “Best Practices”,Considerations Vincent Maloney

2. What is Lecture Capture? Technology for recording lecture Students watch at convenience Variety of programs and approaches Depends on your goals

3. Ways to Use Record “traditional 50 – 90 minute lecture while giving it in lecture hall Record mini-lectures for flipped classroom watch before class perform assignment to show that watched come to class for problem solving and other group activities Record mini-lectures for flipped classroom, then also record activity in face to face class Some considerations

4. Benefits for Students students use as resource for review study for exams/quizzes go over difficult topics may watch several times missed classes evidence shows that students will still come to class particularly for interaction

5. Benefits for Students The University of New South Wales surveyed students from 4 universities (2006). In regards to lecture recording types, students preferred screen capture (57%) 28% of students always attended live lectures, even with captured lectures available. 52% regularly attended live lectures, 15% occasionally, and 5% never went to class.

6. Benefits for Students 61% of students used lecture capture for studying for exams, 57% used it for review, and 41% used it due to schedule conflicts. 63% of students ranked recorded lectures as essential, another 37% ranked them as useful, and less than 1% ranked them as not important.

7. Benefits for Faculty Now allows best of both worlds active learning in face to face class while retaining traditional lecture (broken up into mini-lectures) solves problem of “bad” day Potentially save time and more efficient in long run

8. Ways to Record Lecture Audio only Audio plus screen capture, shows whatever is on screen (Powerpoint + annotation + pointer) (annotation tablet) Audio +screen capture + video

9. Ways to Record Lecture Audio only Audio plus screen capture, shows whatever is on screen (Powerpoint + annotation + pointer) (annotation tablet) Audio +screen capture + video No consensus on importance of video of instructor

10. Best Practices Common Sense? Good Pedagogy make sure good audio be careful of extraneous noise be careful of range of microphone or location of lapel microphone make sure enough light other video considerations wear solid colors, avoid patterns, neon, bright colors avoid distracting clutter in view of camera look at camera but vary tone of voice and eye contact

11. Best Practices(Common Sense?) Review before posting Notify class about lectures in syllabus with instructions

12. Best Practices Office/small room Can get by with inexpensive equipment Large room/lecture hall Need high quality mic Repeat student questions

13. Best Practices Have students do some activity to show that they have watched recording online homework/quiz muddiest point assessment assign groups and have students within groups summarize specific lectures

14. Best Practices Base lecture length on single topic and if possible, keep lectures less than 20 min with average 10 min. or less chunking, learn better if focus shorter lectures on single topic/concept Often helpful to have simple CATs in video so that students can assess their understanding of topic Powerpoint: use pointer during lecture capture to highlight what you are talking about

15. Best Practices Can record work at a black/whiteboard but may be difficult to get good results Use screen capture

16. Some Other Considerations Lecture: Streaming vs. Downloadable Format Check university policies (6/11 based on our discussion at the workshop, it sounds like this really varies with institutions and states) Probably your lectures are your intellectual property Students should not attempt to copy and reproduce Students allowed to download Students are allowed to make multiple copies and redistribute

17. Some Other Considerations Student Privacy During class: public space cannot have expectation of privacy Before/After class (recording running) Not public, must be edited

18. Some Other Considerations Choice of technology Time involved in “Flipping the Class” Tegrity Lecture Capture Limitations Shorter learning curve

19. Tegrity Record lectures Limited capability for editing Stored on cloud Accessed through Tegrity or Blackboard Streaming or download

20. Tegrity Students can access portions of lectures by thumbnails Can convert other files into Tegritylectures Camatasia

21. Other Lecture Capture Course Online Accordant Echo 360 Elluminate Panopto Sonic Foundry Techsmith

22. Some Useful Websites UNC Charlotte https://teaching.uncc.edu/learning-resources/articles-books/tip-sheets/lecture-capture Educause http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/engaging-lecture-capture-lights-camera-interaction St. Louis University http://www.slu.edu/its/services-and-products/academic-resources/tegrity-lecture-capture/lecture-capture-policies-and-guidelines