The Tel Aviv University (TAU) Computing Division has been running, for the past few years, an academic course video recording project. The main objective of this project is to create a web based “face to face like” learning environment to support the study of frontal academic courses. By using this environment, students can extend their learning hours around the clock while they are at home (learning anytime, anywhere). Students with learning disabilities and accessibility problems can gain special benefit out of this environment. The level of content recording, as of last semester, is over 1500 video recording hours per semester. This large recording capacity is achieved by means of a “distributed content production” model and the use of recording techniques developed at the TAU Computing Division (TAU–CD).

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Jan Torge Claussen, M.A., RRZ-Medienkompetenzzentrum der Universität Hamburg

I `ll take my lecture to go, please – What is common with coffee becomes a big challenge with lectures at the university. In any case the interest of the students is quite justified. Hence, the university of Hamburg offers a steadily growing portion of its lectures online and similar to a take-away.

The possibility to make lecture recordings in sound and picture available in the World Wide Web demonstrates a prudent addition to the methods of traditional teaching. It helps students with their individual post-processing, strengthens their media literacy and supports mobility and flexibility. In addition, the multimedia publication of a lecture is an excellent scientific resource for varied research and teaching. Carefully selected content can be published in terms of “Open Access” and thus improves everybody’s access to the extensive knowledge of the universities with lasting effect.

In my talk the project for lecture recording and distribution at the university of Hamburg so called lecture2Go will be introduced. L2Go is the name for both: the recording-system and the website. I will talk about the special challenges of our project. Its effects, aims and demands will be discussed within the scope of education and research at the university of Hamburg. The further topics of my lectures are the different user scenarios, technical and juridical issues as well as requirements in content and structure.

Dear Podcast University:2009 followers,
after checking this years number of registered conference and workshop participants we decided to CANCEL the PodcastU:2009 conference and workshop.

For any questions please contact us
kontakt@podcast-university.com

We appologize for any inconvenience and hope to welcome you next year.

The Podcast University Team

UPDATE:

Some conference speakers had already prepared their talk, others asked if it would be possible for speakers to send a recorded presentation podcast to embed it into the conference page.

We will include your recorded presentation podcasts and the blog can be used for discussion.

by Jörn Loviscach – Fachhochschule Bielefeld (University of Applied Sciences)

Taking the cost and the pain out of media production has become the holy grail of e-learning research. This talk presents a light-weight approach of creating video lectures on the fly on a Tablet PC with free or inexpensive software and uploading them onto YouTube. The experiences made during a 14-week German-language mathematics course for engineering students are reported on. It turned out that the astonishingly deep technical amenities of YouTube offer huge educational potential.

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Due to some maintenance work at the blog, the conference and workshop schedule have new URLs. You will find them on the left side at the navigation bar. We apologise for any inconvenience.

We’re happy to present the 2009 Podcast University conference and workshops schedules to you and hope that we’ve fund an interesting round-up for all visitors of our conference. The now missing talks and workshops will be announced in the next couple of weeks. All informations about fee’s and registration are available here.

Over the last few years, web lectures and podcasts have become an integral part of universities’ e-learning portfolios. They can be created by simply recording a lecture that is part of a curriculum anyway. Thus, the amount of recordings and media files to which the recordings are exported is constantly growing. More and more students as well as learners from outside the universities ask for lectures to be available online. Lecturers develop new didactic concepts and produce podcasts including additional material while students produce audio-visual content as user-generated e-learning objects.

Web 2.0 platforms and mashup websites, social networks and video Internet repositories like YouTube try to attract students to spend their time online. Apple´s iTunes U project  is also a popular place to reach learners all over the planet. For universities, it is not easy to decide whether this kind of popular websites and systems are an adequate place to include or present high-quality learning content. Platforms like Apple’s iTunes U or YouTube education are a good marketing place for universities to attract prospective students, partners for projects or for the university itself. For many universities producing open educational ressources is a challenging process and presently disputed. Besides legal grounds concerning copyright issues and further points, there are concerns on the lecturers’ side about the way their content will be used outside. It is often quite unclear which benefit can be found in open educational ressources.

This year’s Podcast University:2009 conference will offer different panels for the topics capturing in lecture rooms, web lectures and the rise of podcasting in recent years, didactic solutions for the successful application of podcasting in universities and concepts for using web 2.0 technologies for teaching and collaboration. General concepts for integrating podcasts in your field of activity are more appreciated than field reports about a single podcast experience.

Topics of Interest

Covered issues will include :

• Institutional audio-visual initiatives
• Web lectures and podcasting
• Adding pedagogical value to assets
• Open Educational Ressources
• Mobile learning
• Sustainable infrastructure and processes
• The OpenCast project
• Exchange formats / metadata
• Media distribution channels
•  …

Opportunities to Participate

• Paper sessions (20 minutes of presentation followed by a panel discussion).
• Run a workshop or tutorial. Proposals should clearly indicate the topic, background, knowledge expected of the participants, objectives, and the qualifications of the instructor.
• Organize a thematic session.

Besides we will also offer different Opencastproject <-> Matterhorn “Beginners workshops” for developers and interested persons the second day that want to get involved in the Opencastproject (info: http://www.opencastproject.org).

To apply write an abstract that should not exceed one page and mail it to kontakt@podcast-university.com till 25. June 2009

Das Team der Podcast Universiy wünscht allen Podcastern und Podcast Interessierten ein frohes neues Jahr. In kürze beginnen wir mit den Vorbereitungen zur nächsten Tagung.

Mit etwas Verzögerung sind nun auch die Fotos der PodcastUniversity:zwei online. Auch die Fotos aus dem vergangenen Jahr sollten nun wieder problemlos anwählbar sein. Bleibt nur noch zu sagen: Viel Spaß beim stöbern!!!

Für alle, die die Podcast University:zwei verpasst haben und alle, die sich noch einmal in Ruhe die Beiträge anschauen möchten sind diese nun als Aufzeichnung auf lernfunk.de online verfügbar!

Die Folien im Download Berich folgen in kürze.