Lecture Capture: What Can Be Automated?

Article Article professionnel Article Lecture Capture: What Can Be Automated? eng 2007 author Burdet Benoît 127138 author Bontron Cédric 135280 author Burgi Pierre-Yves 0000-0002-4956-9279 22616 40-48 1528-5324 Online education encompasses a variety of technologies, one of which is lecture capture—a long-standing practice at the University of Geneva. The faculty of arts has recorded most of its lectures on audiotapes since the 1970s, well before the World Wide Web existed. Modernization of the recording technologies, however, which until recently consisted of magnetic tapes, was necessary for online courses to efficiently share lectures with off-campus students. This technological upgrade inevitably had implications for the audiovisual (A/V) operating staff of librarians and technicians who have traditionally been caretakers of the lecture-capture process. To ease the acceptance of a new, automatic lecture-recording system, a close collaboration between the operating staff and IT engineers was established during the project's conception. We considered this particularly necessary because not all processes can be easily automated. Another constraint was the desire to not involve faculty members more deeply in the recording process, which meant that the system had to be as autonomous as possible. The conception of the new system also faced technical challenges related to the fact that the campus consists of a handful of buildings distributed throughout the city of Geneva. Due to construction history, the basic infrastructure of these buildings encompasses a variety of equipment, which made the system conception especially daunting. This article tells how we successfully carried out this project while respecting these constraints, akin to those faced by many other academic institutions. Lecture capture Online education Broadcast User-centric Bilingual interpretation Dewey 025.063 132 Division du système et des technologies de l'information et de la communication 0CE false The EDUCAUSE quarterly 30 2 94f2721e-b661-4639-828c-acad1bf423b6 Supplemental data Public fig3.jpg 74518 image/jpeg III cb805508-db50-43cf-8b48-19f1c29a9047 Supplemental data Public fig5.jpg 130130 image/jpeg V 3bf2e0fc-b2e7-4d00-8ab9-e1319cfc537c Supplemental data Public fig2.jpg 59514 image/jpeg II 61c0c893-8fb0-46ff-b1e1-e7aa8f728e22 Supplemental data Public fig1.jpg 98496 image/jpeg I cb600a27-0820-4438-93c0-acc942744d01 Supplemental data Public fig4.jpg 80751 image/jpeg IV 34e44ae1-b761-47eb-acb8-bbb9abd3d358 Article (Published version) Public AutomaticLectureCapture_editor.pdf 177906 application/pdf openAccess Rectorat et administration / Division du système et des technologies de l'information et de la communication

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