Markus Ketterl

virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre

Markus KetterlUniversity of Osnabrück

virtUOS:Center for Information Management andvirtual Teaching

Markus.Ketterl@uni-osnabrueck.de

Web lecture productionMultimedia Content & Sharing

Markus Ketterl

virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre

Produktionskette:

• video/audio recording• PowerPoint presentation

•screencapture

„virtPresenter lecture recording system“

automatic content provision: Recording of the content,

preparation for publishing and providing on servers

virtPresenter lecturerecording framework

Podcasts (Audio, Video &

Enhanced Podcasts)

Web lectures

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre

Backend and content production

•4 Parts– Preparation– Recording– Processing– Distribution

•Processes are fully automated

•Lecturer starts/stops the presentation

•Recording system is scaleable

•Media on the servers + Metadata -> A/V repository

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Webinterface

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Production chain adds additional info and metadata for content re-use

PodcastversionsWeb lectures Course websites

University - LMS (Stud.IP)

iTunes Store / U YouTube

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Lernfunk audio/videocontent management system:

http://www.lernfunk.de/

virtPresenter Facebook integration: Social Network Application Group (University of Osnabrück)

Production chain adds additional info for further content re-use

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre

Social navigation support / Social generated footprints

Identify relevant parts in lecture recordings

In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh

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Edit the recordingsonline & extract parts

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Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Türme_von_Hanoi

Enhance Wikipedia with Multimedia:

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Integration in University Blog

English Language and Linguistics Online http://www.blogs.uni-osnabrueck.de/ello/

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Lernfunk - A/V repository

Situation at the University

University related multimedia content in different places:

- inside the LMS- faculty websites- course websites- EXTERN- Old/different media file types (e.g.

Real media Dinosaur)

- lost links- forgotten "hard discs“- ...

www.lernfunk.de

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Lernfunk - A/V repository

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre

Do you know how your content is used?

Distribution channelMain

InterfaceEmbed-Player

Interaction data

Additional data

public course websites ü - ü -

LMS (Stud.IP) ü ü ü üaudio/video repository ü ü ü -

Blog - ü ü üWiki  - ü ü üFacebook ü  - ü üYouTube *  - - üiTunes Store (U) *  - - -

podcast use / RSS podcatcher  - - -podcast in Blog, Wiki or LMS Other plugins  - - ü

* closed platform

COLLECTING INTERACTION DATA FROM MULTIPLE VIEWS

Examples for collected data:which platform is used, content playtime, search terms, additional links,user questions, how many users are online, user feedback

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Usage Analysis

users: 14353

• EmbedPlayer is used in 23% percent of all accesses even though it is relatively new.

• Embed-player is already well accepted by both students and lecturers.

• Web lecture vs. Podcast (Streaming vs. Download) --> Podcast is just a bonus

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Including our Candy

virtPresenter

PuMuKit

REPLAYSURFmedia

...

...

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virtPresenterLecture recordings

Streaming Servers Red5 +

Tomcat (blazeDS)

Data trafic:

- iTunes peaks!

- 2000 students every week using the virtPresenter UIs

-Moving to clouds

Situation at the moment:

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virtUOSZentrum für Informationsmanagementund virtuelle Lehre Call for Participation

Topics of Interest: Institutional audio-visual initiatives Web lectures and podcasting Adding pedagogical value to assets Open Educational Ressources Mobile learning

Sustainable infrastructure and processesThe OpenCast projectExchange formats / metadata Media distribution channels

September 2nd - 3rd 2009, Osnabrück

Besides we will also offer different Opencast <-> Matterhorn "Beginnersworkshops" for developers and interested persons the second day.

www.podcast-university.com

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Lecture Recording Framework

virtPresenter framework is opensourceWill be part of Matterhorn & OpenCast community

www.virtpresenter.org

Info, code, help, publications can be found:

Available lecture recordings and webcasts www.lernfunk.de

www.opencastproject.org