1.
A Centralised Lecture Capture
Service for Irish Higher Education
Brian Mulligan, Institute of Technology Sligo
Peter O’Halloran, HEAnet
EdTech2012, NUI Maynooth

2.
"This guy
is
amazing”
Bill Gates
www.khanacademy.org

3.
Which will have the biggest Impact?
• Free Content?
– MIT Open courseware, Khan Academy
• Online HE from abroad?
– Eg. USA
• Online from private institutions?
– Eg. Phoenix, Hibernia, Kaplan
• Professional Accreditation?
– Disaggregation of teaching and assessment.
• Low cost providers?
– University of the People

4.
How much does it cost to record
and publish a lecture?
• Recording set up.
– Video
– Audio
– Screen capture
– Etc.
• Mixing
• Editing
• Post-processing
• Publishing
• Yale: €40k per course

5.
How much does it cost to use
Powerpoint in a lecture?

6.
What if it was that easy and cheap
to record a lecture?

7.
What do we really need to record?
Audio 
Slides/Data Projector 
Video ?
Whiteboard ?
Audience ?
Do we really need to edit?

8.
What does a Lecture Capture System do?
• Records screen and audio
– other devices (video, document readers, etc.)
• Uploads raw recordings
• Post-processes
– Multiple output formats
• Publishes to the Internet
– VLE, RSS feed, iTunes, YouTube etc.

9.
“Lecture Capture” is...
...an easy way to:
record, post-process and publish lectures.

10.
Criteria for selection
• Ease of recording
• Ease of publishing
• Scalability
• Cost of hosting
• Bandwidth requirements
– Recording, viewing
• Publishing options
• Output quality and formats
• Navigable recordings

11.
Examples
• Software based recording is more cost
effective and flexible than hardware based.

12.
How does it work?

13.
Step 1 – Lecturer Clicks on Record

14.
Step 2 - File Uploads to Server

15.
Step 3 - File Published to Students

16.
HEAnet Pilot
• Camtasia Relay
• 3 month free trial
• Free Screencast accounts for publishing
– Links of RSS feeds to folders
• 30 volunteers (via NDLR)
• Surveyed at the end.

17.
Survey results
polldaddy.com

18.
Thank You!
Any Questions?
Discussion.
mulligan.brian@itsligo.ie, coll.brian@itsligo.ie
Brian Mulligan, Brian Coll
Institute of Technology Sligo

19.
ADDITIONAL SLIDES

20.
Camtasia Relay
Market Considering Textbook pricing model
$10 per course

21.
Extra Costs for Deployment:
• $2,000 = 20 classrooms with microphones (Samson UB1)
• $20,000 = 20 new smart carts pc (Dell Optiplex 775)
• (slated for upgrade previously)
• $5,500 = 6 Samsung visualizer (SDP-850X)
• $1300 = 13 sign out/test microphones (Samson UB1)
• $1,500 = 10 graphics tablets (Adesso Cyber Pad)

22.
Yale has spent $30,000 to $40,000 for each course it puts
online. This includes the cost of the videographer,
generating a transcript and providing what Diana E. E.
Kleiner, who runs Open Yale Courses, calls “quality
assurance.”
The Open University’s free offerings have been
downloaded more than 16 million times, with 89 percent
of those downloads outside the U.K., says Martin Bean,
vice chancellor of the university. Some 6,000 students
started out with a free online course before registering for
a paid online course.

23.
Lecture Capture World Market
• The revenues for hardware,
software, maintenance and support
revenues are anticipated to measure
in excess of $50 million in 2010.
• Frost & Sullivan's 2010 research, World
Lecture Capture Solutions Market.

24.
Panopto Student Bandwidth
• With default encoding settings, bandwidth is:
• 50 Kbps – Audio Only
• 300 Kbps - Video only or video + PowerPoint
• 500 Kbps for video + any combination of
secondary video (screen, chalkboard, doc.
camera, etc)

25.
Panopto Hardware Requirements
• Data Server (Minimal Configuration):
• Operating System Windows XP, Vista, Windows
Server 2003/2008 (Std., Pro., Ent.)
• Processor / Memory Dual Core 1.6Ghz / 1GB RAM
• Network 100/1000 NIC Storage
• Data Server Storage:
• Add 1.3TB for every 100 hours of Digital Video.
• Add 54GB for every 100 hours of High Quality
Compressed (HQC) that you want to keep.
• Add 13.5GB for every 100 hours of Web Ready (WR)
that you want to keep.