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Lecture capture: Policy and Strategy What is happening to the pedagogical process because of lecture capture? By Ellen Ullman T hanks To lecTure capTure, Julia MarTy coMpleTed her Junior year at Northeastern University (Mass.) this spring. The office of student-athlete support services (sass) offers student-athletes access to videos of missed classes, allowing Marty to compete on Team switzerland’s hockey team at the 2010 Winter olympics and not sacrifice her studies. While she missed a month of classes, three of her professors recorded their lectures and “she had an extremely successful spring term,” says coleen pantalone, associate dean for undergraduate business. The online access, Marty adds, “gave me the feeling that i didn’t miss any classes at all.” in the past, student-athletes would fall behind. a senior varsity baseball player asked faculty athletics representative Fred Wiseman to find a solution. Wiseman partnered with sass director lauren desantis and came up with the lecture-capture initiative, which includes a Tegrity system to make classroom recordings accessible online for studentathletes to download and view at their convenience. (The general student body also benefits, as any class recorded for a student-athlete is made available to every member of that class.) The initiative was piloted in the fall of 2009 and became a full-time program this spring. “athletes can miss up to 70 percent of their classes,” says Wiseman, a professor in the college of Business administration, “making it nearly impossible to succeed.” currently, more than 50 faculty members participate; the business school dean funded most of the technology and encourages faculty to get on board. northeastern is not the only higher ed institution using lecture capture to change the way students learn and professors teach. Thanks to the nearly pervasive usage of this technology, schools across the country are using it more strategically. The “Upside-Down Classroom” Is Born at many universities, students are watching video simulations before attending clinical courses. “a professor Clemson faculty can record themselves prior to attending a might put together a simulation showing how to handle conference and not have to cancel class. hazardous material and ask students to watch it before their first lab,” says sean Brown, vice president of higher education for sonic Foundry, whose Mediasite webcasting platform automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings. This type of previewing is also happening in nonsimulation courses, and instructors tell Brown that it increases the quality of interaction in the classroom. “We see some schools making lectures available a week before class. in addition to improving the level of dialogue, doing this can help schools handle financial challenges, as they can cover material with fewer class meetings,” says Brown. edward J. Berger, associate dean for undergraduate programs at the University of Virginia in charlottesuniversitybusiness.com July/August 2010 | 71 http://www.universitybusiness.com

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

Univertsity Business - July 2010
Contents
Editor’s Note
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Behind the News
Sense of Place
Community Colleges
Viewpoint
Money Matters
Annual Directory of Higher Education Consultants
Human Resources
Models of Efficiency
Lecture Capture: Policy and Strategy
Projecting New AV
Land Mines Ahead
End Note

University Business - July 2010