Reporting back: UoB workshop on lecture capture Friday 13 May

This was a one hour session with Barbara Newland from the Centre for Teaching and Learning, reporting on a large-scale project she'd been involved in at the University of Bournemouth. This involved a system for capturing lectures and making them avaible via the institutional VLE (Blackboard). Unlike the Camtasia Relay available at Brighton, this system simply involved the lecturer turning on a microphone: the rest was automatic.

Some interesting points were that student attendance was not significantly affected, with students giving a wide range of uses of the lectures (i.e. not simply substituting for attendance). Some lecturers found the facility allowed them to change their practice, e.g. by asking students to pre-view the lecture, before using the face to face meetings for more interactive learning.