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0059 Demo: Lecture Capture
From lecture to laptop: using Echo360 personal capture
to create short screencasts for teaching and learning
Authors
John Davies
Clare Hardman
Theme
Teachers of the future
Tags
effectiveness, efficiency,
evaluation, lectureCapture,
marshallingEvidence, podcasting,
screencast, video
This session will demonstrate how the Echo360 Personal Capture tool is
being used on the Me2U project (www.sussex.ac.uk/elearning/me2u)
at the University of Sussex. As more institutions adopt lecture capture
systems to record teaching sessions and other events, the amount of video
and audio material created to support student learning is on the increase.
A limitation is that systems are in fixed locations, so are generally used
to record standard teaching sessions. Using a laptop-based version of the
system, however, enables tutors to create learning resources wherever they
feel most comfortable, whilst retaining the advantages associated with
using a centrally-supported system. The Me2U project has explored the
role that one such tool – Echo360 Personal Capture – can play in student
learning. Teaching staff from a range of disciplines have created short
recordings that are integrated into their modules. Through analysis of
quantitative and qualitative data, we have established that students value
the recordings and that they help to scaffold their learning. The project
has also evaluated the extent to which lecturers find the tool useful for
teaching. We will demonstrate how Echo360 Personal Capture can be used
to create a screencast by recording the session itself. Participants will be
taken through all stages of screencast creation, from configuring the system
to the way in which recordings are integrated with the University’s virtual
learning environment (based on Moodle). The session will also include an
evaluation of the project and the resulting recording will be available to
participants after the session. We will conclude by giving participants the
opportunity to discuss the benefits and issues of using short screencasts to
support teaching and learning and, in particular, the role that institutionallysupported
(and potentially scalable) systems can play in this area of
learning. Participants will have the opportunity to:
• appraise the Echo360 personal capture tool and its integration with an
institutional VLE;
• recognise the value that students and staff place on short recordings;
• assess whether the use of tools like Echo360 Personal Capture might
increase the use of audio and video by teachers in their institution.
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