The impact of video becoming mainstream across the whole UCL campus

Clive YoungDigital EducationUniversity College London

Context

• Est.1826 (1st in London)• One of top 10 global universities• Research intensive (LERU member)• 6000 staff• Multidisciplinary • Growing fast

Video in the 2016-21 UCL Education Strategy

How did video become mainstream?

• Lecture recording for seven years

• Echo 360 (“Lecturecast”)

• 90+ spaces – half local • 2000+ recordings per

annum, 15% of events• Never compulsory just

available (…originally!)

1. perpetuates an outdated and discredited passive learning experience (the classroom lecture).2. does not engage the student.3. traditional lectures aren’t designed for online delivery.4. it diverts resources

Why?

The uninspired label “lecture capture,” fails to convey the disruptive potential of this tool

Janet Russell, September 2012Georgetown U Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship

“We have always thought of lecture capture as a way of changing pedagogic practice”

Jason NortonUCL Digital Education

Services Manager

Our ethos – taking a pedagogic focus

• Self-reflection – what are we really doing?• Better design of resources - quality• Support – DIY vs central?• Scalability – from project to mainstream• Sustainability – is it worth funding next year?• Evaluation – do students learn (more/better)?• Helping students use the recordings better

Our ethos – taking a pedagogic focus

Student engagement

• Students’ Union (UCLU)

• Students’ practice

transforms an ephemeral event into a learning object

Clarification

Consolidation

Time

Views

Event Exam

Students interact/engage with the recording• Access – own devices• Choice – on-demand, search• Control – start, stop, pause, review

Staff engagement

• Builds media familiarity, capacity & activity• Grows interest from staff (…beyond lectures)

• Drives traffic to Moodle – important side effect!

Leading to growing use of…

• Lecturer as producer - not event-driven• a stand-alone desktop application• narrated screen captures • easy-to-use• media import

But more pedagogically demanding

Echo360 Personal Capture

http://lecturecast.ucl.ac.uk:8080/ess/echo/presentation/adc1491d-6554-49fc-a595-74a9093a3be5

Getting ever more sophisticated…

Briefing + task online

Getting ever more sophisticated…

Analysis of responses + continuation in class

Flipping Ideas• Prepare or motivate• Elaborate on and further explain• Recall and integrate• Lead-in to an assignment• Learning guidance and strategies• Content to encourage analysis

Even more ideas• dial-e designs (JISC)

….and there’s more….

“The use of video at UCL is about transitioning to the future”

Dr Graham RobertsUCL Computer Science

Becoming mainstream

MIT 90s transformational model

http://iltinfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/000897_managing_it-a_planning_tool_for_senior_managers.pdf

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1342355056/

Mainstream means….

Mixed emotions

More and different people involved

“The characteristics of late adopters are profoundly different from those of early adopters” (McKenzie 1999)

• Realise what worked for pioneers does not work for the later groups

• New barriers will emerge (e.g. skills, funding)• Rebuild systems and processes...

Role of the student has changed

• Sit back film and TV• Sit forward internet video• Stand up producers and ‘social video’

New themes at UCL – support model

• Students as producers of research outcomes (UCL Connected Curriculum)

• New modes of assessment

Beyond mainstream - students as producers

UCL Integration projects

• Computer Science• Anthropology• UCL Doctoral School

Trending @ UCL• Programming• Adobe suite• Web design/development• Film and Photography• Office• Mac• 3D Animation & modelling• Microsoft• Management and Leadership

Digital capabilities

Kaltura report 2015• easy-to-use tools for video capture (79%) • integration with VLE (72%)• simple workflows to publish videos (61%)• a centralized video system (52%)

UCL Media Manifesto 2015“To unlock this potential staff and students need easy-to-use tools for video production and simple workflows to publish media to a centralised system for delivery for example via Moodle.”

New systems

• MediaCentral - central media server (May 16)• Online and hands-on training environment• Easy access to support by specialists

• Loan equipment ‘prosumer’ quality (May 16)• Mini-studio ‘media rooms’ distributed DIY suite • High-end studio space, supported/bookable.

• Media user group/special interest group (• Programme of evaluation

Our 2015 “manifesto”

“It is not easy to do but it shouldn't bar you from having a go, and I think you learn by doing and you learn iteratively in making video and you learn alongside students.

Dr John PotterEducation and New MediaUCL Institute of Education

To conclude