Thinking and Researching
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Lecture capture
Currently involved in a JISC fiunded project evaluating lecture capture (ELTAC).
Coventry uses Echo 360 software (which grew out of Lectopia) and I'm told that both staff and students like the possibilities, for example, it's especially useful for non-native speakers of English to review the lecture. However, it's also making me wonder why lecture in the first place? I might find a rationale here:
Burgan In defence of lecturing
Apart from the pedagogic arguments practical issues also have to be faced:
- being captured means you have to stay very static (in camera shot and so no one else gets captured) and this feels very unnatural to me!
- you have to remember to wear something appropriate i.e. not stripey and to look towards the camera when talking
