- the opportunities of digital and social media to enhance learning
- user-generated content and the use of digital media by diverse people
- alternative modes of assessment and feedback
- active engagement and inclusion throughout the formal and informal university experience
- academic and professional standards
- digital literacy and professionalism
- enhancing and transforming the learner experience and academic practice.
Interesting introduction to hear where Nottingham are and where they want to head.
Introduction to MELSIG – Media-Enhanced Learning Special Interest Group.
Focus on Digital and social media.
- Sharing Practice
- Generating Ideas
- Asking Questions]Ideas and risky thinking
- Innovation and change
- Digital – share, create, communicate, curate
- Social – Network, co-operate, collaborate
- Personal or Institutional??
- Rich – video, voice and viewpoint
- Connected – always on, accessible
- Open – redefining the spaces and approaches we use for learning
- Authentic, ubiquitous, informal shift?
Video shown to us from lecturer delivering a lecture directly to camera. Interesting to see advert for monetisation was on.
Rough and ready videos are ok.
Videos are a starting point of learning.
Book: Digital Voices from MELSIG community free from site if you then promote to your community.
Innovation at the University of Nottingham
1. Faculty case study -Dr Sally Chappell, Lecturer in Human Molecular Genetics, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
- Idea was that they would deliver a distance learning course running along a workbook.
- Initially run as blended learning.
- Recorded material and uploaded to Moodle
- NHS firewalls and PC availability caused issues.
- Provided all students with iPads (3G model)
- Student can add their own sim card
- Recorded lectures packages into iBooks
- Keep it short
- Display video length
- Allows student to plan their time to watch.
- iBooks – pros and cons
- Great for these students as they are provided with iPads
- Wider application might be an issue as not everyone will have a mac device.
- Software for recording
- Initially used software shipped with macs – might not be shipped these days
- Debut video capture is now being used.
How does this relate to their campus based teaching?
This isn’t that different from the flipped classroom
Used nearpod to test understanding http://www.nearpod.com/
Recorded lectures will be scrutinised! Students will pick it apart – but this is ok – [use it as points to develop on].
2. Lecture Capture–Ian Pearshouse, Service Owner – Lecture Capture
Started back in 2008/9
Opt in service
Integrated to Moodle
Using Echo
Delivering to UK, China and Malaysia
Being captured on 3 campuses
Today:
Still opt in
All staff and modules are registered on the system be default.
Have 300 lecture cap rooms:
- 22 hardware – SCHD
- 278 software – Classroom capture
Have installed a Student feedback Video Diary Booth in the SU.
Where are they going?
- Project to investigate a step change in scale
- All lectures captured by default globally
- Move to an opt OUT
- Still 300+ rooms (UK)
- Potentially 4000 events per week (UK)
- Peak capture rate 300Mb/s
[Will be very interesting to follow UoN over next few months]
3. Webinars: Inside and outside the institution – Helen Whitehead, Learning Technology Consultant
What do we call Webinars / Screencaptures etc?
Using Adobe Connect and Google Hangouts
Webinar – important to have an element of interactivity
Choosing the technology:
- What kind of Webinar?
- Who/where are the attendees?
- Is there a F2F event involved or is it just online?
- What tech do you have available?
- How reliable is the tech?
- What support is there?
- Can is by synchronous or asynchronous?
- Keep topic & title interesting attractive and short
- Invite guest speakers if appropriate
- Marketing, invitations and registration
- registration helps provide a stake in attending
- Reminders and instructions for joining
- Location, system, lighting, audio, wifi
- Test, test, test, test again
- Rehearse
- Test
- Host and speakers should join early
- Play music prior to start and / or have a countdown timer
- Have a welcome message -mention setup
- Upload documents and test links
- Speaker/s [presenters]
- Chair [host]
- Moderator
- Short
- Simple
- Interactive
At the start:
- Allow for arrival time
- Registration
- Saying hello
- Load the presentation in advance
- Keep it visual
- Use a whiteboard where appropriate [Padlet also]
- Receive live feedback
- Keeps audience engaged
Innovation in the region
1. Thinking Creatively with Video: MyCAT does not pussyfoot about –
Bev Cole, Mark Hetherington, Dario Faniglione, Birmingham City University
Allows quick online publishing of rich media enhanced learning content.
Using Kaltura, Mediasite, Screencast-o-matic BigBlueButton
(Also using a virtual town)
Do not do much live streaming of lectures – mostly key notes and graduation.
Monthly staff competition to win a tech device (?iPad?) for use of MyCAT.
Solution (MyCAT)
- 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
2. Using lecture capture technologies to support peer-to-peer feedback among first-year Fashion students in a studio-based learning environment –
Ann Draycott, Rob Higson, and Glenn McGarry, University of Derby
Were using iPad to film feedback to students.
Used Blackboard and Panopto (already in use at Derby)
Using a lec cap solution in ways not intended (panopto)
Allowed students to record on iPad and upload to a panopto ‘Dropbox’ area. Can be set for student to only see their own or allow all in area to see all.
Because students were feeding back on other students they were allowed to see all submission.
Students could then feedback on the feedback given.
Created video guides on how to use the capture application
Created handouts / posters
Held f-2-f sessions on why this is important and what they needed to cover
Usual tech issues at start – wifi access, file size, access to iOS device (no capture app on android) etc.
3. Emerging practice with webinars for blended and online learning –
Calum Thomson (University of Salford) & Rod Cullen (Manchester Metropolitan University).
Calum and Rod have undertaken a series of one-to-one interviews with colleagues delivering webinars to explore their experiences and to try and identify emerging good practice with this exciting technology.
1998 def. of Webinar was emphasis on online presentation with interaction.
Today def. is wider than just presentation.
Don’t plan to present, plan to engage.
iTunesU Special Focus Panel
Terese Bird (University of Leicester), Peter Robinson (Oxford University) and Graham McElearney (University of Sheffield) will each give a short presentation and compare their experience of leading the adoption of iTunesU at their institutions. The presentations will each reflect on what has been done, by whom, and will discuss:
- How academics and students have responded
- How iTunesU has affected innovation in teaching and learning
Oxford University:
Ran a website in parallel with iTunesU. Large library of content 5000+ Hours and 23+ M downloads.
Anyone can go and download the content.
Anyone in the university [I guess staff] can upload and publish their own content.
University of Leicester
Open educational resources
Published on iTunesU
First year that they are rolling out Lecture Capture
How to get staff on board?
Have a meeting with a free lunch!
Demo to key people
Share success stories
Offer hand holding
Keep after them
Launched Easter 2013
Modest resources.
Hosting content on YouTube then moving to iTunesU if popular in some areas.
Purchased every undergraduate medical student an iPad. Allowed quick delivery of course books / learning material.
Lecture capture was spurred on from petition from the students union.
University of Sheffield
Developed with their Marketing Dept.
Why are they doing it?
A responsibility to share knowledge with the world.
To raise the international profiles of individuals, their discipline, department and the University.
No Previous exp. of OERs
Their vision – [Take diversity of excellence and celebrate in digital form]
Excellence in…
L&T
Research
Public engagement
Outreach
Supporting the Student Experience
Student Generated Materials
First content – 200 screencasts
Using echo 360 personal capture addon
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Staff don’t allow students to plagiarise so why should they when producing presentations?
Workshop 1: Using Video to Capture Learning
In this workshop two 15 minutes presentations will discuss how video is being used to capture and share learning. Participants will then share their own experience and discuss issues relating to putting students and their work in front of the camera
Running Video Assessments –
Ellie Kennedy and Helen Puntha, Nottingham Trent University Student videos form the assessment for the online NTU Sustainability Certificate. Ellie and Helen will discuss how online video assessment works on the course and how videos made by last year’s course participants are being used to create sustainability-related materials for general teaching purposes.
Session Padlet: http://padlet.com/amiddlet50/student-video
Videos are used without the course to get students used to using videos.
Students created sustainability awareness for their final assessment. Incentives and a final competition award was used to keep students engaged.
Some students refused to submit to the assessment because it was a video. Next time they will allow students to choose media format (poster leaflet video etc.)
Exploring the value and use of recorded student presentations
Alex Spiers, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine LSTM have recently purchased a site wide licence for Panopto Lecture Capture software and provide all students at the school with an account. Students on the Clinical Challenges in Tropical Medicine course have to work in groups to create, present and record weekly presentations on specific topics using Panopto and Office 365 software. This case study will examine how the video recordings have been used as well as finding out student perceptions of the impact of these tools on their learning
experience.
Currently working with a small group of students (15)
Record student lead seminars
Weekly formative group presentations
Using Turning Point Clickers
Every Student at the School HAS to purchase a clicker (refunded at the end of course).
Using OneDrive
–Online collaboratively created Powerpoints
Using Panopto
–If it moves it’s captured
All recordings made available within 48 hours.
Staff & students have the option to not be recorded – at LSTM no one has done this.
- 93 recordings
- 17 Lectures
- 47 Group Presentations
- 12 Topic intros
- 16 Case Reviews
- 8 Other
Special Focus Parallel workshops
The Good Practice Exchange
Eleanor Livermore, MMU discusses creating film resources to promote good academic
practice. Eleanor collects interviews with MMU staff about their teaching ideas and projects.
www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/good_practice
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Great resource – open to everyone.
Get involved!!! participatory bite-size CPD, cross-institutional examples from practice
Chrissi Nerantzi, MMU Introducing this UK webinar programme, what’s involved
Perception is that academics do not engage with CPD but this is not true with more non formal CPD.
Started from a blended learning approach to academic CPD.
Webinar sessions had double the attendance – even though some sessions were outside working day.
Multiple HEIs have now joined together to collaborate and share good practice.
Using Adobe Connect. Not requiring registration so tracking is hard.
www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/flex/tlc.php
9 webinars
188 participants in total
(21 per webinar)
recorded views: 394 to end of 2014
Tweetchats 2015 – Wednesday nights LTHE chats.
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