Presentation given at MELSIG, Nottingham 2015
Bev Cole, Mark Hetherington, Dario Faniglione, Birmingham City University
Tackling the problem of simply adding lots of video to your bit of the VLE… for your students only… and possibly doing something more interesting, creative, shareable, interactive and engaging with them instead. The Centre for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) at BCU will demonstrate their drag and drop solution for hard pressed staff that integrates both Kaltura (video streaming) and their learning repository!
3. Situational Awareness ?
● Mixed bag for Creative Video Capture, Lectures and
Webinar...ing
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4. Motivations
● Incentivise teaching staff to produce accessible, usable,
media-rich material
● Overcome technical barriers related to the publishing of
online videos
● Quick prototyping of multimedia learning material
● Share multimedia assets within the institution and
outside
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5. Solution
● Easy upload of media assets
● Automation (i.e. video transcoding & file storage)
● Drag-and-drop interface and quick web publishing
● Asset (media) management and default institutional
sharing
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6. Video transcoding
Video files storage
Video meta-tag
Industry Standards e.g. IMS,
Scorm, OAI-PMH
Background Upload
through API
File from
Reference
File Management Search,
Upload through API to
repository
User/Creator @BCUCELT
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7. Additional features
● Page layouts
● WYSIWYG editor
● Multi-page resource
● Linear VS Non-linear navigation
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31. Obstacles
● Time constraints
● Cultural resistance to “share” learning materials
● Technology challenges and software (im)maturity
● Teaching staff responsible to provide alternative
accessible material
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32. What’s Next?
● Workflow to automate video lecture recording, transcript
generation, chapterization and keyword extraction
● Ad-hoc video lecture project mobile-first template in
MyCAT v2, with Analytics (xAPI)
● University policy on video lectures informed by research
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