The document provides information about iLecture Systems' transition from large scale lecture capture to ubiquitous capture across Curtin University. Key points include: 1) Automation of the lecture capture process through opt-out scheduling, middleware integration with the university's systems, and auto-publishing recordings to the learning management system. 2) Increased end-user control through tools for instructors to manage recordings and integration with audio-visual systems in lecture theaters. 3) Development of specialist capture systems for clinical and practical sessions using multiple cameras, microphones, and control rooms. 4) Widespread deployment of portable personal capture devices and classroom capture software to enable recording in any teaching space.

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Martin Hill
iLecture Systems
Team Leader
Curtin Teaching & Learning
Curtin University, Western Australia

2. iLecture Scheduled Venues vs Specialist
Multi-Camera Capture Stations

3. Number of recordings

4. Number of Recordings
• Up to 250-300 lectures, seminars,
prac sessions, captured per day
during semester.
• 27,000 recordings captured in 2013
• 1.7 million streams and downloads
in 2013

5. Total Recordings
• 43,000 total recordings in Echo
System
• 170,000 total recordings in our
old Lectopia system
• Average recording length 2
hours

6. Number of Viewings

7. Live Webcasting

8. Live Webcasting
• 120+ venues dual-stream webcast-capable
• 56 venues equipped with Video Camera
• 600+ live webcasts this year (pilot)
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9. Original Lectopia System (local deployment)

10. Current EchoSystem (externally hosted)

11. BlackBoard Collaborate Stats
Year
Rooms Unique
Recordings
Started Attendees
Mobile Total
2008
-
5,747
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2009
902
6,220
50
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2010
2,116
7,659
905
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2011
4,949
14,163
2,225
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2012
2013 (up
till Nov 15)
9,556
20,820
3,258
175
8,288
25,008
2,502
1,736

12. How we moved from Large Scale to
“Ubiquitous” Capture
• Automation
– Opt-Out Scheduling
– Talend Integration
– Auto-Publishing to Blackboard
– AV automation
• End-User Control
– IMT Integration
– AV Integration
• Specialist Clinical & Prac Capture Systems

13. Automation

14. Opt-Out Recording in All Curtin Venues
• All 150 Automatic iLecture venues
• Academic Lecture & Seminar
bookings only
• Only Bookings in CATS (centrally
scheduled venues)
• 600 Personal Capture (PCAP) users
• 1,000+ PCAP installations

15. Talend Middleware Integration
– Synchronisation of scheduling data
• for all lectures and seminars
• in all 150 iLecture venues
• from Venues Booking System into the EchoSystem
– Creation of EchoSystem Instructor Accounts
• for all lecturers extracted from Student One System
• Linked with appropriate Echo Courses and Sections
– Automatic Publishing of recordings to LMS
• to all Blackboard courses that share the same Unit ID

16. Talend Integration

17. Auto-publishing to Blackboard

18. Individual Recordings in Blackboard

19. Revolabs Executive HD wireless microphones
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Auto un-mute
Recharge in Docks
Beep and flash if out of range
Digitally Encrypted
up to 64 mics in same zone

20. Automatic Video Camera Tracking

21. iSmart Auto-Tracking

22. iSmart Auto-Tracking Camera

23. iSmart Auto-Tracking - Whiteboard

24. iSmart cameras in Collaborative Classrooms

25. Echo360 Classroom Capture
• Automatic scheduled recordings on any PC
– Capture Service that runs permanently in the
background

26. Classroom Capture Pros & Cons
• Pros:
– No cost
– Any Room with a Windows 7 PC can become an automated
recording venue with the addition of a microphone or
webcam
• Cons:
– No Live Webcasting
– Only records PC screen (and optionally webcam). Won’t
record laptop
– PC needs to be logged in for recording to occur
– If presenter restarts or crashes PC, recording is lost

27. End-User control

28. iLecture Management Tool (IMT)

29. Get Access or Create a new iLecture “unit”

30. How to book an iLecture

31. Provide Access or Create new users

32. Modify an iLecture unit

33. Publishing to Blackboard

34. AMX & Crestron lectern touchscreen
Recording Started
Unit: Mathematics 101
Physiotherapy 235
Dual-Video Recording

35. iLecture(Recording(Status(Light( Light
iLecture Recording Status
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Press(Light(to(Pause(
or(Resume(Recording
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Open!Monitor'My'iLecture!
icon!on!desktop!of!Lectern!PC!
to!monitor!your!Recording!
Tap Light to Pause
or Resume
working – No Recordings
GREEN!=!No!Recordings!
taking place
taking!place!
NOTE:!Lectern!PC!must!be!turned!ON!for!iLecture!Status!Light!to!work!

36. iLecture Status Light on a lectern

39. Monitor My iLecture Icon
Monitor My
iLecture

40. Monitor My iLecture - Preview

41. Automatic vs Manual Recordings

42. Automatic vs Manual Recordings

43. Echo360 Personal Capture (PCAP)

44. Manual Video Recording
• No tapes or tape
changes
• Up to 35 hrs
recording time
• Very portable
• Very simple setup

45. iPod Touch Voice Recorder
• Griffin
lapel
Mic

46. Webcam/Microphone/Doc Camera
• Avervision U15
–HD Webcam
–USB Mic
–Document
Camera
–Single cable

47. Doc Camera in PCAP

48. USB Wireless Lapel Microphone
• Revolabs xTag
–8 hours
battery life
–2-way audio
–USB
–No drivers

49. Specialist Prac and
Clinical Capture

50. iLecture Specialist venues
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b305 Model Pharmacy
b108 12 x Occupational therapy labs
b108 8 x Social Work Counselling Suites
b405 2 x Nursing SimMan wards
b305 4 x Medical Consult Rooms
b401 8 x Psychology interview rooms
b408 15 x Physiotherapy Prac labs
b404 5 x Medical Consult Rooms & Physio Prac labs
Juniper Retirement Village 2 x Prac Sim Rooms

51. Model Pharmacy
b305

52. 2 Cameras per Recording Station
1 Boundary Microphone per
Recording Station

56. Model Pharmacy Control Room

57. Monitor & Control All Cameras

58. Monitor & Control all Recording Computers

59. PM’s visit to the Model Pharmacy

60. Occupational Therapy Labs

61. Occupational Performance Lab

62. Occupational Performance Lab
7 Cameras in the Occupational
Performance Lab – Simulated
Bathroom, kitchen, bedroom,
laundry, etc.

63. OT Splinting Lab

65. Social Work Counselling Suites

66. Interview Room dual camera

67. Big Brother & the Voice of God
• Remote Control options for
monitoring & control
–Dedicated Control Room
–Mobile Remote Control via iPad
etc

68. Social Work b108 Control Room

69. Social Work b108 Counselling Suites

70. “Voice of God” – Internal
Audio & Video Conferencing

71. Mobile

72. Martin Hill
iLecture Systems Manager
Curtin Teaching & Learning
Curtin University,
Perth, Western Australia
Email: m.b.hill@curtin.edu.au
Web: ilectures.curtin.edu.au

73. Closed Captions

74. Full-text Transcripts

75. Echo360 Rich Media Player

76. Other Specialist Venues
• b405 Inter-professional Simulation project
– Fiona Stanley Hospital Ward simulation
• Medical School Distributed Health project
• New Medical School building project
• b404 VERT (Virtual Environment Radiation
Therapy Training) project
• Curtin-ZUMC Global Classroom Project
(China)

77. Interprofessional
Simulation Lab
• Building 404
– Nursing
– Pyshiotherapy
– Etc
• Fiona Stanley Hospital
Ward simulation

78. B404 Medical Clinic Rooms
5 x Medical Clinical Rooms
VERT Installation

79. Medical School

80. Student-Created Content
• 8 x Psychology Interview Rooms &
Control/Groupwork Room
• 4 x Health Sciences Consult rooms & Control
room
• 2 x Nursing & MidWifery SimMan Suites
• 15 x Physiotherapy Prac lab stations

81. Student Use Cases
– Students record themselves doing:
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Practicals
interviews
Assignments & projects
Oral & Prac Exams
– Useful for:
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self-critique,
peer-review
formal and informal assessment
Student portfolios
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build up over the 3-4 years they will be here at Curtin.

82. Adding Interactivity to Recordings

83. Automated, Interactive Live Webcasting

84. Joining a Live Webcast

85. EchoCenter – Staff view
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87. Echo360 Media Manager

88. Online Editing of Recordings

89. External Media Import

90. Monitoring of your recordings

91. Echo360 Personal Capture Download

92. Aggregate Student Reports
Student-Specific Reports

93. LectureTools Quizzes, Polls and
Questions embedded in live webcast

94. LectureTools

95. LectureTools

96. LectureTools

97. LectureTools

98. LectureTools

99. LectureTools

100. Classroom Capture software Pros & Cons
Pros:
• Low cost – software installed on existing lectern PC + Webcam w mic
• Fully automated - the lecturer doesn¹t need to do anything to be recorded
as long as session booked in advance
• Microphone is built into the webcam and gives decent quality audio as
long as lecturer doesn¹t walk too far away
• Can record talking-head webcam video footage alongside the screen
recording
Cons:
• External laptop screen will not be recorded
• The lecturer has to log in to the lectern computer
• If a presenter logs out or restarts or crashes the lectern computer, the
recording will fail
• No live webcasting