We have Synote on the servers at University of Southampton and also ask lecturers if they are happy to be recorded and tell the students this is occurring. Recordings can be saved with different permissions such as 'Private' so only you can view it, 'Read' so other people can only view but cannot annotate it, 'Annotate' so that other people can view and annotate it by creating Synmarks and 'Write' so that other people can view, annotate and edit the recording, transcript, slides and Synmarks
Synote is an open source application www.synote.org - (github link https://github.com/yunjiali/Synote#readme ). Dr Mike Wald (project lead) and other lecturers have been using it for some time and there are now over 1250 recordings available. The plus point for lecturers is that the system allows students to annotate audio recordings and videos not only aiding accessibility but also helping with revision and note taking plus collaboration as it links with Twitter etc. Transcriptions can be carried out by the use of automatic speech recognition if you have that in place on your server. The most useful thing is the way the lecture output can be synchronised with the notes so searching for key points is easy and tags can be added to help sorting. You do not have to listen to the whole lecture once again. It works well with Panopto or you can use media held on other servers such as YouTube etc. Sample presentation - http://www.synote.org/synote/recording/replay/89569
There are several flavours of Synote including the one developed under the JISC funded ALUIAR project suitable for researchers (http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/aluiar/) which allows for colour coding of annotations and tagging for themes with export to Excel. We are now going mobile with our present project Synote Mobile (http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk/blog/synotemobile/ ) and have successfully got the iPad and Samsung Galaxy versions responding well with integrated annotations and the small screen devices shaping up.
Best wishes E.A.
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From: Open Educational Resources [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Scott Wilson
Sent: 09 July 2012 13:25
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Subject: {Disarmed} Re: UK teaching union raises concerns about lecture capture
On 9 Jul 2012, at 11:24, Mike Blamires wrote:
We have been doing some work on recording lectures and seminars both in the university and at conferences.
At ECER we would ask people the day of the seminar if we could record them and I was surprised when they all agreed.
The provisos were that they can ask for items to be changed or not included if they are unhappy with them and that they have copyright and that it will be up only for a year and at the end of the period it can be updated, archived or removed. Ie it has a sell buy date.
Its an unfortunate example of the conflicts between the values of users and producers. As a user, I'd prefer to get the recording to do with as I wish, for however long in the future, rather than limited access to a stream.
There was something done (I think at ASCILITE?) years back on user vs producer culture for learning objects, along the lines of:
- producers want to know who is using their materials and what for
- users want to have anonymous access without needing to login or say who they work for, or being tracked on how they use it
- producers want to share resources as-is without any modifications they might feel unhappy with
- users want the freedom to edit and repurpose
- producers want the ability to retract or remove
- users want the ability to save and redistribute
We have also given the authors the option to have their work on an external site, internal or course only VLE.
I think this relies on personal trust and the providers need to be more informed about their copyright options.
Other people may have taken this much further and I'd be interested to know how that is shaping.
Bangor were quite early here, setting up automatic recording of Psychology lectures using some homebrew kit. Wonder what they did?
Mike Blamires
CAMILO(E)
From: Amber THOMAS [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 June 2012 21:18
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Subject: UK teaching union raises concerns about lecture capture
Picked up via stephen downes OLdaily
"The University and College Union (UCU), which represents many academics in HE, passed a motion (HE43) at their recent HE sector conference that expresses some of the anxieties that surround lecture capture. These include questions about the pedagogical value of recorded lectures and a fear that the technology will support the marketisation of education by enabling lectures to be franchised or sold."
http://telic.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/ucu-wary-of-lecture-capture/
I suspect many of us would share the blogger's scepticism that lectures can be sold - we know the business drivers/models are not quite that. Where *are* they clearly articulated though? In real distilled concise language?
I'd be interested to know if any list members get actively involved in the UCU debate around this ... could be a chance to deepen the discourse and really discuss what open academic practices mean to "the unengaged".
Amber
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