test session

1. Tel Aviv University (TAU) Information Technology and Computing Division
Educational Digital Media Applications

2. TAU IT Digital Media
TAU IT Department Video Services
Content Production Model
Distribution & Access
“ Face2Face“: Pedagogic Impact
Future Development

3. TAU IT Digital Media Services:
Statistics
TAU IT
Department  8,200 hours of recorded content accessed over
Video Services
1,000,000 times last year
Content
production  6,400 recording hours of curricular courses (1,600
model
hours recorded last year)
Content
distribution
 250 video recordings of frontal courses, with 50
access
more each semester
“ Face2Face  Over 50 live webcasts/recordings of academic
like “
events per year
 200,000 accesses to general academic content
Future plans
 88,000 accesses to live webcasts

4. TAU IT Digital Media Services:
Features
TAU IT
Department Fully online courses available in addition to frontal courses
Video Services
Content
production Large online repository of video & audio clips,
model
• music clips library
Content
distribution
• films for cinema and theater studies
access
• instructional movies (e.g. Medicine, Engineering)
“ Face2Face • TV and Radio programs recordings
like “
 International conferences live webcast or
Future plans
later On-Demand access

5. TAU IT Digital Media Services:
Services
TAU IT
Department  Central CMS (Content Management System) and
Video Services
engaging
Content
production  Training, development and help desk
model
 Cooperating with lecturers in order to create new
Content
distribution
recording formats
access
 Collaboration with students union on course
“ Face2Face recordings (Training, equipment, tech-support)
like “
 Content Access Control – managing access to
copyrighted content side-by-side with open access
Future plans
content

6. TAU IT Digital Media Services:
Services
TAU IT
Department  Live webcast from the wild (Birds and other
Video Services
animals)
Content
production
model
 On demand lecture recordings repository
Content
distribution
access
 International summer schools and lab classes
“ Face2Face recordings
like “
Future plans

7. TAU IT Digital Media Services:
Recording the Nano2Life conferences
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

8. TAU IT Department Video Services
Content Production Model
Distribution & Access
“ Face2Face“: Pedagogic Impact
Future Development

9. Content Production:
Software used
TAU IT
Department  Content Creation – Capturing, gathering and
Video Services
editing video content.
Content
production
model
 Content Processing – Meta-data addition,
Content
distribution
control, authoring and uploading.
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

10. Content Production:
Distributed production model
TAU IT
Department TAU Campus
Video Services
Faculty of Engineering TAU-IT
capture/record
Content Trimming/editing Central storage
production
model Indexing metadata •New technologies
upload deployment
Content
Management
Content •Training
distribution
access •Help desk
Web services
•Technical support
Other faculties •Quality Assurance
“ Face2Face
like “ Other faculties Streaming media
services
Other faculties
Organizational Firewall
Other faculties
Future plans

11. Content Production:
Capture methods
TAU IT
Department Screen capture Indexed video
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
Wide video Double Media
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

12. Integrated Data / Video (IDV)
video & VGA in a single stream
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

13. Content Production:
Capture methods
TAU IT
Department  Very short post production time
Video Services
 Standard hardware
Content
production  Mobility
model
 Live webcast
Content
distribution
 Video and VGA
access
 Compatibility with handheld devices like iPhone and
“ Face2Face Windows mobile
like “
Future plans

14. Content Production:
Lecture hall layout
Lecturer computer
TAU IT
Department Connected to network
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
Analog audio
access
from wireless mic
Close up to encoder laptop screen
“ Face2Face Lecturers
like “ Computer
FireWire IEEE 1394 screen
Future plans

15. Content Production:
Self recording layout
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Lecturers
Computer
Content
production screen
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

16. Content Production:
Software in use
TAU IT
Department  The Content Production model is Windows-based,
Video Services
using Software such as:
Content
production
model
 Windows Media Encoder
Content
distribution
 Windows Media Editor
access
 Amcap
“ Face2Face  VNC
like “
 Movica
Future plans

17. TAU IT Department Video Services
Content Production Model
Distribution & Access
“ Face2Face“: Pedagogic Impact
Future Development

18. Content distibution
TAU IT
Department  Targeted content distribution
Video Services
Content
production
model
 Access rights control and management
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face  Multi format/platform dissemination, for better
like “
compatibility and availability
Future plans

19. Content distribution:
Infrastructure
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

20. Content distribution:
Video server
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

21. Content distribution:
Moodle
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

22. Content distribution:
YouTube
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

23. Content distribution:
Smart phone, PDA
TAU IT
Department Smart phone/PDA
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

24. TAU IT Department Video Services
Content Production Model
Distribution & Access
“ Face2Face“: Pedagogic Impact
Future Development

25. TAU IT
Department  Slowly evolving from frontal through blended to
Video Services
fully online learning
Content
production
model
 Gradual introduction of new technologies to
Content
distribution
students and teachers
access
“ Face2Face Close pedagogical collaboration with teachers and
like “
students to integrate new technological approaches
Future plans

26. Face2face like learning on the web
Interactive webcast
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

27. Face2face like learning on the web
Fully online courses (Moodle)
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans

28. Future Plans – Road map
TAU IT
Department  Integrating video clips in social media applications
Video Services
Content
production  Adding tags, annotations and bookmarks
model
Content
distribution
 Video OCR and speech to text
access
“ Face2Face  Developing more friendly user interface
like “
 Making user interface better accessible
Future plans

29. Future Plans – Road map
TAU IT
Department  Looking for partner institutes to collaborating
Video Services
sharing mutual experience and knowledge
Content
production
model
 Institutes to share network infrastructures
Content
distribution
access
 Courses and learning objects production and
“ Face2Face sharing
like “
Future plans

30. TAU IT Digital Media Services
acknowledgments
TAU IT
Department
Video Services
Content
production
model
Content
distribution
access
“ Face2Face
like “
Future plans