Lecture Capture is being upgraded this summer and users will benefit from a more user-friendly interface, new features and an improved experience for City, University of London’s staff and students. Why is this happening? The current platform Echo System Server (ESS) will no longer be supported by the provider, Echo360, from the end of this…Continue Reading Upgrading the Lecture Capture System at City, University of London
Do you use lecture capture in your teaching? Margaret Carran, Senior Lecturer at City Law School and Deputy Associate Dean (Education) does, and she’s been sharing her experiences with LEaD, in the latest of our Educational Technology video case studies. This short film takes a different approach from the ‘talking heads’ style and uses animation…Continue Reading Leading by example, with lecture capture
Recently, I was lucky enough to attend the annual BETT exhibition . This was my third visit to BETT since 2010 and my first with an HE hat on. It continues to grow in size and frankly the quantity of stuff on display boggles the mind. Here are a few of my key impressions of the…Continue Reading BETT 2017 -The potential and challenges of technology enhanced learning
Why use lecture capture? What are the limitations? How do you do on the fly editing? This post looks at some of these issues, advice and novel solutions universities using the open source lecture capture system, Opencast shared at the annual Opencast Conference, at the University of Manchester, which I attended the first day of,…Continue Reading Lecture capture: Opting (out) to enhance student experience and other Opencast Conference Highlights
I’ve used both the fixed lecture capture in larger rooms, and personal capture, with some success and had extremely positive feedback on it from students. It’s usually worth editing the recordings if only to cut out breaks in the lecture, but this is easy to do once you have learned to use the software. Once…Continue Reading Lecture capture: the present and the future
Audience: City University London staff & students Online Guides Guides for using all our educational technologies have been collaboratively developed by our Educational Technology Team and are available at: www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/staff and www.city.ac.uk/edtechhelp/student. Service Now To access support in using educational technology do log your queries through Service Now ( www.city.ac.uk/itservicedesk ). Incident or Request? If you want to…Continue Reading Educational Technology Online Guides & Service Now Support
In early December I attended the Media and Learning Conference 2013, held in Brussels at the Vlaams Ministerie van Onderwijs en Vorming or Flemish Ministry for Education. On reflection, this was an enjoyable but predictable conference which left me with the impression that there is in Europe the same enthusiasm for developing multimedia in…Continue Reading Media and Learning Conference, Brussels, December 2013
An enormous number of projects have been completed during the academic year 2012-13. Strategic Learning Environment projects and work have been underpinned by the Educational Technology Community, a network of educational technology and other professional services staff and academics from the centre and all schools, using a system of meetings and working groups. This method…Continue Reading SLE Achievements 2012-13
Thank you to all those that attended and participated in our workshop session at the Learning at City Conference. In our session we introduced a number of techniques and technologies that could be used to enable creative large group teaching. We talked about how education is changing and our learning spaces need to reflect these…Continue Reading Creative Large Group Teaching – the aftermath
What is Lecture capture? As discussed in my earlier post, lecture capture is an automated system for recording lectures and subsequently making them available via the web. Lecture capture is the chosen service name for City’s installation of the Echo360 system and tends to be the common term used in the educational technology community though…Continue Reading Sir could you repeat that please?