The sessions before lunch at Peter Kaufman’s CCNMTL conference, given by folks from different universities, are pretty interesting. For Columbia’s portion, CCNMTL got all the footage from CNN to create a Vaclav Havel website when he came to Columbia. Diana Kleiner discussed some of the issues Yale needed to address as they put video online.
Scott Shunk from the Visualizing Cultures class at MIT spoke eloquently. The course is not only a class, and part of MIT’s open courseware, but also a platform for media and content that examines history through the images that were created at the time. I find it really cool stuff, where you take text and pictures and line it up in a manga-style way, like a graphic novel, or really, in the case of the Japanese art, a scroll. Read, in this case, from left to right.
Mike Cubit spoke from MediaVision, the video conferencing facility at Case Western Reserve – They have produced 250 projects in the past year. Encode 100 hrs of video per week with 13 full-time staff, 4 people dedicated to video production. They’ve made a content management system to do it automatically. Delivered 250,000 streams to campus community since July of 06. 450 MBpS connectivity.
93% of students at Case Western use laptops, 96% brought their cell phones, and they have high expectations regarding technology services.
They’ve produced telesurgery with 2 cameras and a laparoscope, to show the donors how the surgeon was performing the operation, and it was very effective. They webcast a premier into Second Life with 1500 avatars attending virtually.
They’re offering the content to alumni, they’re incorporating automated uploads for a live 24/7 webcase channel, and are doing a number of other interesting projects. 75% of students say they watch the videos to help clarify course concepts. The athletes who are traveling for their sports appreciate not having to go to class. 95% of students surveyed have watched a lecture online. 79% said they felt they did better in class because the lectures were available for review. And 98% of them would recommend MultiVision as a tool to other students.
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