This session will explore how learning environments can be improved with lecture capture technology, how technology enables and fosters effective learning and what educational institutions should look for in a lecture capture appliance to optimize their innovative classroom.
This session will be less product focused and more aimed at the benefits of integrating lecture capture appliances in the innovative classroom and what must-have features your school’s lecture capture appliance should have.
This session will be put on by Matrox in collaboration with Ensemble Design, one of our partners, who manufacturers digital video products for broadcast and post production facilities, including digital vision mixer sand keyers, video graphics I/O for computers.
This session will be less product focused and more aimed at the benefits of integrating lecture capture appliances in the innovative classroom and what must-have features your school’s lecture capture appliance should have.
This session will explore how to integrate a lecture capture appliance into your existing workflow, how to use 3rd party players to allow viewers to select their preferred viewing layout, how to import schedules on the network for streaming and recording.
We will discuss the difference between traditional lecture capture systems that combine computer and camera content into picture-in-picture, side-by-side and switching modes and new age lecture capture systems that have the ability to record both inputs independently yet in sync. For any school today, two inputs are a must (i.e. power-point and video of the professor). Lectures seldom only use one media.
This session will also explore the benefits and differences for students who are able to select their preferred viewing experience and often are able to switch between viewing layouts depending on the content. For instance, if the student is viewing the power-point and video of the professor and then, the professor moves to a complex slide with graphs and data points, the student can change their viewing layout to only see the presentation in order to more clearly see the graph. This new way of delivering lectures online enables students to view the lecture in the layout they prefer whether it is picture-in-picture, side-by-side; full screen professor and full screen supporting lecture content.
Finally, this session will reinforce that by selecting the right lecture capture appliance, it can be easily integrated into the school’s network. Some key features will be highlighted in this section of the presentation including: the ability to store and forward, meaning you store the recordings locally to an SD or USB drive and transfer the files to your school’s network at a later time. This feature reduces the risk of network congestion during peak times.
A second feature that will be highlighted is the importance of looking for a lecture capture appliance that can schedule classes. For instance, some appliances can import schedules manually or can be configured to periodically retrieve schedules on your network. This scheduler feature can often import open source iCal files such as those generated by Google calendar. So at the beginning of the semester the schedule can be set to automatically record in classroom #Building A, Room 121 at 10:00am to 12:00pm every Monday. This means that professors can focus on teaching while letting the lecture capture appliance do the rest!