Multimedia for academic purposes

George RobertseL@B

20 November 2009

Lecture capture

• examples – ~ UC Berkley – ~ YouTube.edu • ~ The open University

– ~ Eltac • ~ Echo360

• characteristics

Academic podcasting

• iTunes U – ~ Steeple • ~ Podcast portal

Audio and video feedback

• generic learning support – ~ Brookes Library – ~ Jude Carroll on Plagiarism

• comments on students' assessed work – Asset - video feedback • ~ Blog • ~ Core

– ~ Sounds Good - Audio feedback

Academic discourse• Annotation of multimedia ~ Synote

– ~ Example player • Production of multimedia ~ Mike Wesch • ~ Brookes Graphics Workshop • Multimedia assessed work

– eportfolios • Scholarship

– Discovery • Citation, impact , value

– Integration • eResearch ~ Crew - ~ Example • On line conferencing

– Application

Other communications

• Recruitment • Alumni • Community relations – Brookes TV

Learner Experience

• Desktop • Digital TV/radio • Games platforms • Nomadic • Mobile • Location aware • Collaborative

Platforms

• Origination • Post production • Hosting • Transcoding • Web2.0 facilities

Questions

• Audio and/or video • Formative or summative • Quick and dirty or high production values • Scholarship or marketing • Nature of new knowledge

Post-text epistemologies• Clydesdale, T. (2009, January 23). Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology.

Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(20), B7. Retrieved from http://languages.oberlin.edu/ctie/blog/2009/01/20/wake-up-and-smell-the-new-epistemology/ .

and see commentary by Annie Em: http://annieem.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/good-pedagogy-aka-good-teachin/

Freeman, R. (2007). Epistemological Bricolage: How Practitioners Make Sense of Learning. Administration & Society, 39(4), 476-496. doi: 10.1177/0095399707301857.

Russo, Angelina and Watkins, Jerry J. and Kelly, Lynda and Chan, Sebastian (2006) How will social media affect museum communication? In: Nordic Digital Excellence in Museums (NODEM), 7th - 9th December 2006, Oslo, Norway.

Schommer-Aikins, M. & Easter, M. (2006). Ways of Knowing and Epistemological Beliefs: Combined effect on academic performance. Educational Psychology, 26(3), 411-423. doi: Article.