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adVeRTiSemenT Fast-tracking a lecture capture implementation At University of Missouri-Columbia, Tegrity’s lecture capture system is quickly embraced by faculty and students in her meetings with professors, hange in aCademia Vessell didn’t just tell them about the tends to occur gradually, but availability of a new lecture capture systhe University of missouritem. instead, she said, she emphasized Columbia turned that conventional the different ways that lecture capture wisdom on its head when it implecould be used for instruction. “We mented a lecture capture system that told them they could use it to capture students and faculty alike embraced their classes, of course, but we also told with unprecedented speed. them they could record supplemenThe search for a lecture capture systal content, such as lessons or assigntem began in the spring of 2009, after ments, from their offices or homes,” several faculty members approached she said. “and we always told them the technology department saying they that they didn’t have to record lectures wanted to implement lecture capture because not everybody’s for their classes, said danna Vessell, “We wanted our innovators with video, in front of a camera.” comfortable the university’s director of educational and early adopters to lead the after getting early buy-in from intechnologies. fluential professors, including several Less than a year later, the universiway and become champions who were not particularly tech-savvy, ty’s lecture capture system, by Tegrity, of the technology.” the next step was promoting the sysis being used by 105 instructors, with tem to students, which began at the recorded lectures being viewed more start of the fall semester. That turned than 40,000 times. “it’s a testament to the system’s ease-of-use for professors and its value for students,” out to be easy, Vessell said, because students embraced Tegrity immediately. She added that the heaviest use of the system by stuVessell said. The key to fast-tracking a lecture capture implementation at the dents occurs when students are preparing for exams. “The feedback we’ve gotten from students is that they really 30,000-student campus, said Vessell, was planning. The first step was defining the features of a lecture capture system that were most appreciate Tegrity’s search feature because they can search through important to stakeholders. “We were looking for scalability so we an entire semester’s lectures to find the particular topic they’re incould grow quickly,” Vessell explained. “But probably most impor- terested in.” as use of the Tegrity system spread during the year from class tant was that the system would be easy and useful for our faculty.” Vessell and her team compared competing systems and quickly to class, instructors found that early concerns about a lecture capruled out those that required installation of special audio or video ture system’s affect on class attendance were unfounded. “We really recording equipment. “We have a lot of classrooms, so buying that have seen no evidence of any decrease in class attendance,” said kind of equipment would be very expensive for us,” she said. Teg- Vessell, who praised the university’s faculty for embracing the Tegrity’s system, which records lectures right from instructor’s laptops rity system so quickly. “it’s really a compliment to our faculty, because they were willand automatically uploads and indexes the recorded lectures for ing to try something new in their teaching that would help stueasy searches, quickly emerged as the winner. The next step was promoting the system to the school’s faculty. dents learn,” she said. Vessell and her team alerted instructors about the availability of Tegrity via meetings, email blasts and internal newsletters, seek- For more information about Tegrity’s lecture capture system, ing volunteers to be early adopters. “We wanted our innovators please visit www.tegrity.com. and early adopters to lead the way and become champions of the technology,” she said. C http://www.tegrity.com http://www.tegrity.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - June 2010

University Business - June 2010
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Behind the News
Sense of Place
Financial Aid
Internet Technology
2010 Higher Education Guide to Audio/Visual Services
Green 2010
Viewpoint
The Quest for Internationals
What's New
End Note

University Business - June 2010