Capturing and Disseminating What Happens in the Classroom

Autor/inn/en	Daugherty, Hubert; Cohn, Julie; Gorry, G. Anthony
Titel	Capturing and Disseminating What Happens in the Classroom
Quelle	In: EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 27 (2004) 3, S.60-62 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1528-5324
Schlagwörter	Information Technology; Educational Technology; Aptitude Treatment Interaction; Knowledge Management; Classroom Environment; Video Technology; Computer System Design; Program Descriptions; Teaching Experience; Instructional Films; Documentaries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informationstechnologie; Unterrichtsmedien; Wissensmanagement; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Lehrfilm; Documentary film; Documentary films; Dokumentarfilm
Abstract	Universities increasingly employ information technology to distribute elements of their educational programs beyond campus borders and to find new uses for the intellectual capital they produce. Some faculty, with varying support and success, are moving course materials--and sometimes courses themselves--to the Internet to reach wider audiences. Institutions may record selected presentations--formal lectures by prominent visitors and other special events--to digitize and serve over the Web. For many outside the university, however, the quintessential campus experience is the interaction of a good teacher and bright, eager students in a classroom. Many would welcome the chance to observe this interaction, even if they could not participate directly. Although instructors commonly put reading lists or papers on the Web for wider audiences, such postings do not convey this important, but ephemeral, classroom experience. Unfortunately, capturing this experience for distribution can be frustrating and costly. The Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning (CTTL) at Rice University has been working to capture classes unobtrusively for distribution beyond the campus. CTTL created classrooms in which it can control cameras, lights, and sound remotely, leaving the normal interaction between teacher and students undisturbed. It developed tools to create digital videos of lectures and discussions with any accompanying computer presentations and demonstrations, videos, music, slides, or other materials. It built a large multimedia server to store the captured classes and to serve them on demand to a wide community of users within and beyond the Rice campus. In a previous article from this journal, the authors described their network architecture to improve streaming video to an off-campus community. In this article, the authors discuss the classrooms and related control facility, as well as the multimedia repository. They also discuss the ways in which their system supports academic efforts at Rice. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table and 3 endnotes. (ERIC).
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