Streaming Video: Overcoming Barriers for Teaching and Learning JISCNSF Digital Libraries Initiative

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Streaming VideoOvercoming Barriers for
Teaching and LearningJISC/NSF Digital Libraries
Initiative All Projects Meeting, Edinburgh June
2002

• Jim Strom
• Manchester Computing

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Streaming Video Overcoming Barriers for Teaching
and Learning

• Need
• Click and Go Video Project
• Developing a Conceptual Framework
• Image, Integration, Interaction
• Challenges and Opportunities

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Need
fast forward to video streaming

• Exploit widespread and freely available PC
  resources for streaming video
• Think more about the pedagogic value and less
  about controlling the technology
• DIY capture and production
• non-specialist educators
• cost and time are important barriers to overcome

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Click and Go Video

• JISC/DNER LT Programme
• Investigating the technology, infrastructure and
  pedagogic barriers for streaming video
• Providing advice and guidance on capture,
  production, delivery, pedagogic use
• Case studies catering, surgery, fashion

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Pedagogic Uses of Video

• Talking head (lecture, presentation)
• Events (seminar, conference, workshop)
• Fly on the wall (group dynamic)
• Think aloud (video diary, interview)
• Instructional (procedure, demonstration)
• Simulation (role play, lab experiment)
• Realism (wildlife, a fashion show, dance)

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Conceptual Framework

• 3Is Concept
• Image visual quality and realism
• Integration linking to other media or
  conferencing tools
• Interaction provision of user control and access

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Image

• Focus on the Capture Stage
• Achieving the media (and message) quality
  required at an acceptable cost
• Audio quality as important as video quality
• Capture may be done for immediacy (raw video)

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Preparation of Food

• Link video with recipe and instructional
  information for practical cookery sessions
• Short high quality close up video clips
• - providing a level of realism equivalent to a
  live demonstration

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Fashion Marketing

• Developing global awareness and experience of
  international business with UK graduates
• Supporting collaborative work among students
• ad hoc capture, fly-on-the-wall
• Student video diaries, presentations

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Integration

• Focus on the Production Stage
• Balancing the degree of creativity in the
  production with the time involved in completing
  it
• Need for tools aimed at the non-technical user
• Approaches to Integrating Media
• as part of video editing
• link through web page design
• use a semi automated capture procedure
• separate out and synchronise (SMIL)

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Interaction

• Focus on the Delivery Process
• Providing a level of control that is in
  accordance with user access
• Issues
• delivering to remote, low bandwidth users
• dealing with resource and technology managers
• network infrastructure

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Challenges and Opportunities

• Move from video as a presentational tool to video
  as a focus for networked learning
• Need to get beyond the early adopters
• Turn educators (and learners) into producers not
  just consumers
• Building (and exchange of) learning objects
• Need for standards-based authoring tools that
  allow pedagogic thinking to be applied in
  production

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Click and Go Further .

• Publication How To Do It Guide
• Pedagogy Workshop (11 July, Manchester)
• CGV Producer Wizard
• Accessibility Study
• Needed Further Research into Pedagogic Use
  Continued Advisory Support for the Community

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Contact Details
jim.strom_at_man.ac.uk Manchester Computing Universit
y of Manchester Tel [phone] IPVC
vc1.telematics.eu.org