2012-06-12 Rich Media in the Academic Platform

Description

Rich media is an increasingly important part of the academic content and course design. It is a key element to many of the initiatives that promise to transform the educational experience. Various use cases and trends that highlight the interest and potential in this domain are: integrating video content into the flow of the course and the course materials, video mini-lectures in online courses, multimedia commentary and creation by the students, offering lecture capture and flipping the classroom, and more.

Educational Technology leaders are finding it necessary to think holistically about a new approach to integrating rich content that includes not only workflow and automation, but also the integration with our classrooms and classroom teaching and our learning systems.

This session will explore these issues, some of the potential solutions and projects underway. It will highlight some of the work coming out of the Opencast Project that reflects this new understanding and direction.

The Opencast Project is a community of practice and co-creators of the open source rich media platform, Opencast Matterhorn, that looks at these issues and is offering solutions in both product and practice.

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Archived Recording: http://engage.opencastproject.org/engage/ui/watch.html?id=f946a7a3-7ee9-489d-b170-dc86a7be5bcd 

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