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Jean-Marie Cognet

(PDF) Lecture capture in higher education: time to learn from the learners - 0 views

  • Of particular and recurring concern to academic staff is the assumption that access to lecture recordings will result in a decrease in attendance at lectures (e.g. Gosper et al., 2010). In most courses, attendance is not in itself a learning outcome (Newton, Tucker, Dawson & Currie, 2014), therefore the concern over attendance must be the manifestation of a deeper concern over the impact on achieving the actual learning outcomes of the course and on other aspects of student engagement. It is also worth noting that falling lecture attendance is not a new phenomenon. As Massingham and Herrington (2006) have highlighted, attendance has been seen as an issue by lecturers for decades
  • Understanding the reasons why students opt not to attend lectures can lead to useful information that can inform pedagogic practice. The reasons students give often have little to do with the availability of recorded lectures
  • Their results revealed that the most important considerations were the predicted outcome of attending the lecture (e.g., Will it facilitate my own subsequent study and learning?), the topic or subject of the lecture (e.g., Will I learn this material better by attending a lecture or by individual study?), whether the lecture will meet the students current learning needs, and personal considerations (e.g., Do I have competing commitments that I view as having a higher priority?), and whether the student had had a previous positive or negative experiences with a particular teacher. Other studies have also highlighted the central importance of the lecturer in attendance decisions.
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  • Given this evidence of the value and distinct role of face-to-face lectures, concern over the wide spread replacement of lecturers with recordings would seem misplaced.
  • Similarly, Aldamen, Al-Esmail, and Hollindale, (2015) found no correlation between student attendance (as measured by attendance lists) and viewing lecture video recordings (as measured by LMS access data), for students on an introductory Accountancy course
  • Yeung, Raju and Sharma (2016) demonstrated that non-frequent attenders were also far less likely to make use of recordings to catch-up on missed classes. This is in line with the findings reported by von Konsky, Ivins and Gribble. (2009)
  • The balance of research suggests that having access to lecture recordings has either no or only a very small impact on attendance
  • studies have shown consistently that students value having access to and make use of recordings of lectures. For example, in a large survey in four Australian Universities, Gosper et al. (2010) found that 76% of students reported a positive experience with recordings, 79.9% felt that it made it easier to learn, and 66.7% felt it had improved their performance (see also McNeil et al., 2007).
  • Students use lecture recordings for a range of general purposes, for example to balance family, work, and other study commitments (e.g., Chester, Buntine, Hammond, & Atkinson, 2011; Dona, Gregory, & Pechenkina, 2017: Pons, Walker, Hollis & Thomas, 2011; Taplin, Kerr, & Brown, 2014), and as a backup for lectures that were unintentionally missed, for example, as the result of illness or transportation issues (e.g., Yeung et al., 2016; Gysbers, Johnston, Hancock, & Denyer, 2011).
  • However, the literature clearly indicates that for the majority of students the greatest value of recordings is as a learning resource. They use recordings to revisit and clarify complex confusing topics (e.g., Elliot & Neal, 2016, Yeung et al., 2016), to prepare for exams (e.g. Chen & Lin, 2012; Copley, 2007; Mallinson & Baumann, 2015; von Konsky et al., 2009), and to learn at their own pace (e.g., Cooke et al., 2011; Euzent, Martin, Moskal, & Moskal, 2011; Tarr et al., 2015). While Scutter, Stupans, Sawyer and King. (2010) do report that some students cited not having to attend the lecture in person as the most useful aspect of podcast access, this was ranked bottom behind advantages associated with personalising the learner experience including; flexibility, revision, clarification, reduced need to take notes in lectures, and simply being able to hear the lecture in full again.
  • Students learning in a second language and students who require additional learning support appear to make greater use of recordings (e.g. Leadbeater, Shuttleworth, Couperthwaite, 2013; Nordmann et al., 2017; Shaw & Molnar, 2011, Taplin et al., 2014)
  • following the Equality Act (2010). Jisc, the UK’s non-profit organisation for digital services and solutions recommends implementing institution-led lecture recording (Jisc, 2018) citing the ability to revisit content as required as the main benefit to inclusive learning.
  • For many first-year students, the university lecture format will be a new learning environment and although guidance is often provided about what they should do during lectures, it is unsurprising that these students value the opportunity to get a second chance at the lecture content when in this transitional stage.
  • in a study of medical students’ use of recordings by Topale (2016), students identified one of the major advantages of recordings as facilitating the ability to use multiple modes of learning, allowing them to view lectures, consult texts and other resources at the same time. Multimedia learning is suggested to have several pedagogic advantages linked with reductions in cognitive load (Mayer, 2005). Luttenberger et al. (2018) state that the driving force behind student satisfaction with lecture capture and podcasts are the opportunities for self-regulated learning
  • The ability to personalise the learner journey and self-regulate learning may also explain why research has suggested that the availability of lecture recordings can reduce feelings of anxiety. For example, Owston, Lupshenyuk, and Wideman (2011) report reduced anxiety when lecture capture is provided due to the ability to review the material later if any important points are missed. Similarly, in a survey conducted with Geology students, 69% agreed that the availability of lecture recordings reduced levels of student anxiety with the course (Traphagan, Kucsera, & Kishi, 2010)
  • Students frequently report that access to lecture recordings improves their learning and performance (e.g., Gosper et al., 2010) and while Ford, Burns, Mitch and Gomez (2012) found no association between access to recordings and grades, they reported that students with access were significantly more likely to report spending more hours studying, more likely to report that learning outcomes were effectively addressed, and more likely to report that they found that the course challenged them to do their best work
  • Cepeda et al. looked at lag effects (i.e., the time between learning sessions) and found that performance was best when the lag was 10-20% of the desired retention interval, for example, to remember something for one week, they recommended spacing learning episodes 12-24 hours apart whereas to remember something for 4 years, learning episodes should be 4.5-9 months apart (although they also recognise that these intervals do not necessarily align with the semesterisation of higher education and therefore recommend one month spacing for university students).
  • There has been relatively little research that has investigated the use of lecture capture as it relates to distributed practice. This may be in part due to the information that is available to researchers. Those studies that used self-reports did not report collecting information on the exact timescale of lecture capture usage across the term
  • First, students should be explicitly instructed that supplemental use is likely to produce the best outcomes.
  • Second, the concept of deep processing should be used to explain and promote that not only is supplemental use best, but selective supplemental use of recordings (rather than re-watching an entire lecture) will likely lead to better outcome
  • Finally, the concept of distributed practice should be linked to the use of lecture capture
Jean-Marie Cognet

NAB Report: Sorenson Media Declares MP4 the King - Streaming Media Magazine - 0 views

  • 69 percent said they use MP4 regularly for online video and 58 percent use it regularly for mobile video.
  • For online video, 54 percent said they use Flash, 45 percent use QuickTime, and 34 percent use Windows Media. Only 5 percent use WebM.
  • mobile space is less competitive, with MP4 running away with it. Only 16 percent of respondents use Flash for mobile, 16 percent use HTML5, 9 percent use Windows Media, and 3 percent use WebM.
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  • The H.264 codec is likewise a winner: 78 percent said they use H.264 when encoding video.
Jean-Marie Cognet

Research: Video Usage in Ed Continues Ramp-up -- Campus Technology - 0 views

  • When it comes to the use of video in education, the over-riding theme — as we might expect — is more, more, more
  • 58 percent of colleges are running flipped classes, up from 50 percent last year. Lecture capture has grown by five percentage points to 77 percent and webcasting has gone up by four percentage points to 51 percent over the same period.
  • In K-12, 87 percent of schools are using video in the classroom, compared to 86 percent in higher ed
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  • This year found a majority of respondents in higher ed (52 percent) integrating their video into their learning management system (LMS); that was only 46 percent last year.
  • Those results come out of the latest edition of "The State of Video in Education," produced by Kaltura, a company that sells video products and services. This 2016 survey received responses from more than 1,500 international respondents to an online survey conducted in April among people in both higher education (74 percent) and K-12 (19 percent)
  • How higher education is using video: 86 percent of respondents said they show video in classes; 79 percent said they use it as supplementary course material; 77 percent reported using video or lecture capture; 75 percent told researchers they use video for student assignments; and 66 percent said they use it for recording campus events for on-demand viewing
  • The optimal length for educational videos is 10 minutes or shorter, according to 74 percent of participants
  • The use of video to provide feedback on school work is gaining in popularity, up from 26 percent in 2015 to 32 percent this year
  • The most valued video feature is a "chapter" function, which enables a video to be parsed into more "browseable" chunks, mentioned by 85 percent of respondents as either "extremely useful" or "very useful." That's followed by closed captioning, referenced by 82 percent of respondents.
  • The video functionality of the future that sparked the most interest among people was the ability to grade quizzes inside videos (chosen by 41 percent of respondents), followed by student video broadcast from mobile phones (36 percent) and videos that branch to other videos based on in-video action (35 percent).
Jean-Marie Cognet

Beyond the Transcript: Three Benefits of Comprehensive Learner Records | EDUCAUSE - 1 views

  • An increasing number of colleges and universities have begun helping students view the variety of their educational experiences in a new way—through a comprehensive learner record (CLR) that documents both academic and co-curricular learning.
  • From a financial-return perspective, research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce found that workers who hold a bachelor's degree earn 31% more than those with an associate's degree and 84% more than those with only a high school diploma.
  • Some institutions have begun helping students view the variety of their learning experiences in a new way: through a comprehensive learner record (CLR).
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  • The CLR is a digital record that institutions can use to document academic and co-curricular learning. Resources such as co-curricular transcripts, digital badges, and e-portfolios are CLR examples that showcase a range of campus activities including service, leadership, cultural competence, and other learning opportunities for students. These types of engagements, some of which could be labeled as high-impact practices, help students develop skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and communication, all of which benefit them in both classroom and real-world situations.
  • In addition to spurring collaboration, the CLR is a meaningful mechanism for connecting data that are sometimes less integrated. For example, the University of South Carolina's Beyond the Classroom Matters project has a co-curricular transcript component, which the institution uses to gather data about students' level of engagement. Professionals from the offices of the registrar, student affairs, and academic affairs worked together to establish a catalog of approximately 150 co-curricular engagements for which students can enroll. As students complete activities, the university displays those experiences in the CLR. The university also connects institutional data to CLR data in order to monitor students' progress and identify positive outcomes.
  • the most important benefit of CLRs is that they enable students to narrate the full range of their knowledge, skills, and abilities. As students prepare for life after college, it will be important for them to answer the simple question: What did you learn? Students who possess a CLR will have had many opportunities to reflect on the variety of experiences they've had and respond in ways that clearly articulate an integrated experience.
Jean-Marie Cognet

Lecture capture takes a leap forward in higher education - 0 views

  • Higher education institutions are increasingly using lecture capture to help their students, according to a 2018 State of Video in Education report from Kaltura. There was a 21% increase in lecture capture use by institutions over the last two years, up from 65% in 2016 to 79% this year. Lecture capture doesn’t just take place in standard lecture halls too, with 10% of all those responding saying they already capture over half of all classes, wherever they take place, and 31% keen to follow their lead. Overall, 88% of respondents across higher education and K-12 (primary/secondary schools) already use lecture capture tools or intend to in the future.
  • 21% report that over half of their students are involved in creating (as opposed to simply watching) video; among higher education respondents, the figure is a little lower at 15%.
  • Closed captions are in use at over half (52%) of institutions today, while 34% use interactive video quizzes to help students learn more effectively. Mobile apps that make it easy for students to watch videos on the move, or offline, are used by 39% of institutions, and a further 53% are eager to add this capability.
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  • The use of video by students for assignments is on the rise, at 69% this year, up from 59% in 2017. Video feedback on student assignments is also growing and is now used by more than a third of institutions (35%) – up from 27% last year – perhaps due to the growth in remote learning.
  • Digital literacy remains high on the agenda as a critical skill for today’s students in an era of fake news and 95% view video as an important part of digital literacy; 97% feel it is important to continue to raise the level of digital and video literacy among both teachers and students. The good news is that 83% of students are already considered to be highly digitally literate, with teachers snapping at their heels with 78%.
  • 97% think that interactive videos, which encourage engagement and help students to learn, will be important; similarly, 97% anticipate that self-paced curricula and personalised learning paths will be of considerable value to many students; and 94% see predictive analytics as a game changer in education
  • The study also found that video has a positive impact on student achievements (84%), on increasing educator collaboration and professional development (83%), and on streamlining the onboarding process for new students (80%).
Jean-Marie Cognet

Lecture capture: watch and learn - Installation - 1 views

  • Today’s students are intimately connected to the latest technology and gadgets and use them constantly. Their familiarity, combined with an innate and intuitive ability to control it, means that not only do they use video and audio communication for their own social communication but expect it to be present in all aspects of their lives. This expectation extends to the provision of learning services, particularly at higher levels; with the current high cost of educational services, prospective students demand sophisticated and effective use of technology at universities to elevate their education experience. They choose their university on a number of factors, with technology and modern teaching methodologies rating highly in that decision. Universities that fail to meet their expectations are ignored as students vote with their feet and select another establishment.
  • The process of recording classes and other live sessions, generally referred to as lecture capture, features highly on the lists of students’ criteria during that assessment. While still a relatively young technology compared with others in the AV world, it has rapidly gained acceptance in the academic sector, proving its ability to aid the educational process and rapidly penetrating the industry
  • Early reticence to deploy and use lecture capture systems has largely abated. Fears that students would skip lectures if there were to be a recording available online later, and lecturers’ concerns over job security once their classes had been recorded, were generally unfounded. Instead the system has stimulated new methods of teaching, including that of ‘flipping’,
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  • This allows them to concentrate on the delivered speech rather than on note-taking, and has greatly improved understanding. Lecture capture systems are often used in preparing the recordings to be used in lecture flipping
  • “The market is becoming mature, not necessarily in terms of current installations but certainly with the numbers of universities that have a plan in place to roll out capture to all rooms. Many universities have a policy of recording all lessons and lectures and it is being implemented widely. Some universities automatically schedule recordings along with the lecture timetable
  • The use of video capture solutions to record classes as well as enable lecturers to create their own supplemental videos requires robust technology.
  • The lecture capture system should be automated, allowing faculty or campus IT staff the ability to easily schedule recordings. A lecturer may also want to record a video prior to class in an empty classroom or right from the comfort of his or her home or office.
  • “The success of lecture capture is influenced by the user experience of the student and also by the user experience of the teacher,” points out Robert de Jong, director of product marketing EMEA at Vaddio.
  • Handling many simultaneous camera feeds on a network can also present problems. “Some universities are starting to install IP cameras as they are fast coming down in price,” says Mark Rogers, product manager, Datapath
  • Lecture capture is almost becoming a victim of its own success,” continues Lipps. “Students nowadays are demanding it in all their classes and will often stop a lecturer to point out if the system is not recording. The result is that it is becoming an essential piece of equipment in all active lecture rooms. A large university may have 500 rooms but it is not economically viable to put top-of-the-range equipment in all of them. However with the right video platform, there will be hardware and software capture options that make sure lecture capture can be included in as many classrooms as possible.”
Jean-Marie Cognet

Kaltura's Survey Reveals A 135% Increase in Remote Teaching and Learning | WebWire - 0 views

  • The international survey of 1,000 respondents shows a boost in the use of video in distant learning, with almost half wanting to experience video in at least 50% of their classrooms
  • The results reveal a boom in the use of video for remote teaching and learning with 66% of respondents stating that their institutions now use these capabilities, up from 28% in 2016
  • Interestingly, 39% of those surveyed state that students studying remotely at their institution are already using video-based solutions to join live classes and lectures, while a further 49% are keen to add these capabilities to their offerings. Remote video capabilities are also being used to let presenters who are not based at the institution to teach and lecture to students, with 54% of all respondents saying that they are already benefiting from this.
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  • The survey also highlights lecture capture[1] as a major growth area, which may well be due to the growing availability of affordable, ‘one-click’ lecture capture software that runs on any Windows compute
  • Other findings of note include: Teaching skills by recording students practicing in class is up from 33% last year to 54% in 2017, perhaps a reflection of the growing demand for video-based training and playback for courses such as nursing and veterinary science.Flipped classrooms are growing in popularity after the initial hype, with 53% now using this approach, up from 45% a year ago.Almost half (45%) are using mobile apps to let students watch video on the go, with a further 48% keen to follow their lead.
  • Respondents included educators, instructional designers, IT professionals, digital media professionals, senior administrators and students from around the globe, with 81% drawn from higher education and 11% from K-12 (primary/secondary
Florent Thiery

One-to-One VP8 Video Calling Now Supported in Skype - The WebM Open Media Project Blog - 0 views

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    Skype have added support for one-to-one VP8 video calling in Skype 5.5 for Windows. If both users in a Skype video call are using Skype 5.5, the call will use VP8 to encode the video streams for optimum transmission across the Internet. Skype also uses VP8 for group video calling.
Jean-Marie Cognet

Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - The New York Times - 1 views

  • After all, with laptops, students can, in some ways, absorb more from lectures than they can with just paper and pen. They can download course readings, look up unfamiliar concepts on the fly and create an accurate, well-organized record of the lecture material. All of that is good.
  • But a growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to earn worse grades. The research is unequivocal: Laptops distract from learning,
  • Measuring the effect of laptops on learning is tough. One problem is that students don’t all use laptops the same way.
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  • In a series of experiments at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles, students were randomly assigned either laptops or pen and paper for note-taking at a lecture. Those who had used laptops had substantially worse understanding of the lecture, as measured by a standardized test, than those who did not.
  • Indeed, the notes of the laptop users more closely resembled transcripts than lecture summaries. The handwritten versions were more succinct but included the salient issues discussed in the lecture.
  • But what is really interesting is that the learning of students seated near the laptop users was also negatively affected.
  • A laptop can sometimes be a form of visual pollution: T
  • Students with learning disabilities may use electronics in order to participate in class. This does reveal that any student using electronics has a learning disability. That is a loss of privacy for those students, which also occurs when they are given more time to complete a test. Those negatives must be weighed against the learning losses of other students when laptops are used in class.
  • Even better, outside class, students can read their own handwritten notes and type them, if they like, a process that enhances learning.
Jean-Marie Cognet

2012 Study - major business benefits through learning technologies - 0 views

  • the average company was able to roll out new products, services and IT systems over 20% faster. It also highlights average companies were achieving a 23% improvement in study time, 24% faster delivery time, 22% reduction in cost of training, 26% improvement in learning reach and 16% improvement in time to competency.
  • 90% of Learning & Development professionals are looking to integrate learning into their company’s different functions, i.e. sales, customer service, talent and production, with 41% saying that this is critical.
  • 95% want to use technology to increase the sharing of good practice but only 25% are currently achieving this, 92% of organisations seek to use learning technologies to respond faster to business change, but only 25% achieve this; 94% of organisations seek to speed up the application of learning back into the workplace, but only 23% achieve this; and 91% seek to improve talent or performance management, but only 20% achieve this.
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  • top learning companies spend 50% more of their learning budgets on technology than the average organisation.
  • In 2012, the proportion of training budget allocated to technology increased from 18% in 2011 to 20% in 2012.
  • 25% of organisations are now developing mobile apps for learning, an increase from 20% in 2010, with 30% of organisations encouraging individuals to use their own devices to access learning opportunities and 31% providing learners with mobile devices.
  • 68% of those organisations are using social learning to build networks inside the organisations; 55% to support learning generation and sharing of user generated content; 54% for individuals to communicate in real time; 51% to reinforce formal learning and 49% to support personal professional development.  
  • learning was not seen as a management priority by 53% of organisations surveyed in 2012,
  • he lack of knowledge of potential use and implementation remained the same, as the 2011 figure at 62%.
lancereau flavie

L'icône hamburger | GNOME Libre - 1 views

  • Le développeur James Foster a conduit une étude à ce sujet durant plusieurs mois, et sa conclusion serait que trois barres horizontales n’auraient pas la même signification pour la plupart des gens, et qu’il serait donc facile de complètement passer à côté.
Jean-Marie Cognet

AI in HR: A Real Killer App - JOSH BERSIN - 1 views

  • Hype and expectations for AI are now sky high
  • on one hand the hype is far ahead of the reality; on the other, the upside could be much bigger than we think. And in HR the opportunity for value is massive.
  • The systems can understand speech, identify photos, and use pattern matching to pick up signals about mood, honesty, and even personality. These algorithms are not “intuitive” like human beings, but they are fast, so they can analyze millions of pieces of information in seconds and quickly correlate them against patterns.
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  • you could imagine an AI system that looks at ll the possible demographics, job history, and interview questions with a candidate and then “predicts” how well they will perform on the job
  • In employee development and learning, we really don’t know how to “train” people perfectly. The global L&D industry is over $200 billion and most learning professionals tell us that at least half this is wasted (forgotten, inappropriately applied, or just wasting peoples’ time). But we don’t know which half this is! 
  • what if we had algorithms that monitored and studied the skills, behaviors, and activities of the highest performers in our teams and then just told us how to be more like them?  These kinds of “Netflix-like” algorithms are now entering the world of learning platforms, making learning as useful and fun as watching cable TV.  Again the market is young, but the opportunity is massive. Our research shows that the average employee has less than 25 minutes a week to train and learn;  if we make that time more relevant everyone will perform better.
  • The success of an HR tool will be dependent on many things: the accuracy and completeness of its algorithms, the ease of use of its systems, but more important than all its ability to provide what is called “narrow AI” – or very specific solutions that solve your problems. This can only be done when the vendor has massive amounts of data (to train its system) and they gain lots of feedback on how well it works. So I believe the barriers to entry are going to be focus, business strategy, and client intimacy, not just having great engineers. 
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When Bringing Your Own Device Isn't Enough: Identifying What Digital Literacy Initiativ... - 0 views

  • Device ownership alone doesn't make people digitally literate; rather, digital literacy is about how and why they use devices to achieve particular goals and outcomes.
  • Definitions of digital literacy can include the ability to use and access digital devices, but studies from the past decade tend to deepen this definition. A commonly cited definition from Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel asserts that digital literacy is "shorthand for the myriad social practices and conceptions of engaging in meaning making mediated by texts that are produced, received, distributed, exchanged etc., via digital codification."
  • s." In other words, it's not just owning the devices that makes you digitally literate—it's how and why you use those devices to achieve particular goals and outcomes.
Jean-Marie Cognet

Have Your Say : Tell your VC - 2 views

  • When the issue of lecture capture (KentPlayer) was raised, Cox directed the question back at the audience, asking: “What are you actually using it for?”. It seems the issue among staff, with regard to lecture capture, is the assumption that students will not show up to their lectures if they know they will be available to listen to later. Many members of the audience proved themselves to be evidence of the contrary, with one student saying: “If I’m doing an essay I’ll go to that particular lecture and revise it again… (replaying lectures can also be useful for revision) because the lecturers elaborate on a particular point that you probably don’t remember, especially if your exams are always in June”. Many other students agreed that the recordings are useful for revision as well as recapping parts of lecture you may not have fully taken in or understood. One member of the audience who has dyslexia said they were useful for him in going back and making notes. The downfall of lecture capture, is the sound quality. One audience member said that although he finds lecture capture useful, the sound quality can make it hard to hear and sometimes render the recording useless. Currently, lectures are recorded by camera only, however, McMahon revealed that the University is looking into introducing lapel mics: “Some of our academic colleagues are concerned that their style is that they really like to pace around and move in and out of the audience.” The introduction of lapel mics could potentially be the solution to lecturers’ aversion to lecture capture as well as the issue of sound quality.
Jean-Marie Cognet

How to use education technology in Business Schools - and why - Business Graduate Assoc... - 0 views

  • ‘tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn’ is often attributed to US inventor and polymath, Benjamin Franklin
  • My mantra is ‘disrupt before being disrupted’. It’s time for today’s digital culture to spread into Business Schools, worldwide
  • In France, 42% of jobs are under threat of automation, according to the consulting firm Roland Berger (2015).The average projected job loss across OECD countries is 57%, according to a 2016 World Bank Development Report.
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  • A vast quantity of information is now widely available online. With more than 4.7bn web pages to choose from, hundreds of new videos uploaded to YouTube every minute of the day, a wide choice of social networks and millions of apps to download, access to information, experts and tools has never been easier. Much of this information is streamed directly to your pocket 24/7 thanks to the mobile phone. Finding relevant and accurate information is far less simple. Nowadays, the challenge is finding the right information at the right time. Professors have to enhance their students’ skills around the critical analysis of online content, tools and expertise.  The student demographic is also evolving, with so-called ‘digital natives’ proliferating within Business Schools, but there is a tremendous need for all employees to become lifelong learners.
  • Moreover, e-learning platforms are evolving into adaptive learning platforms so that content can be adapted automatically, thanks to algorithms and data, which can set the pace of the learning to suit the abilities and preferences of the learners. This could be the end of the ‘one-best-way’ approach to higher education. In short, it is impossible for us to continue teaching in the way we have done for decades
  • VR is a great tool for enhancing the learning experience.
  • With this technology, we aim to achieve three key improvements around learning:  1. Faster learning: the use of VR speeds up the learning process. Students are more engaged and involved in the case studies, and this means that they pick up the marketing concepts linked to the business case more quickly. 2. More memorable learning: students are likely to be positively influenced by this innovative and novel style of teaching. Its effects will therefore last longer and they stand to remember key concepts more clearly. 3. More complete learning: students experience the world in its full complexity and in a ‘natural non-linear’ way: they enhance their critical-thinking skills and creativity, thanks to shorter feedback loops around the experience itself during class.
  • At NEOMA, we are lucky to have faculty rules that recognise the value of innovation in teaching. Without such rules, innovation would be unlikely to take root.
  • Peter Drucker: ‘The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.’ Don’t be afraid of the turbulence, go forth and transform. 
  • Alain Goudey is Chief Digital Officer and Professor of Marketing at NEOMA Business School in France
Jean-Marie Cognet

5 Ways to Chunk Information in Videos - AllenComm - 1 views

  • Research shows that by the end of the year, the majority of organizations will be using video as part of their digital training strategy. Video caters to many types of learners and is engaging, memorable and fun. It’s also increasingly becoming a cost-effective way to deliver complex information in a short time. Video can be used effectively in several different areas: Description Demonstration Documentary Dramatization
  • So how can you incorporate video into your elearning courses? Here are a few simple ideas.
  • Keep It Short.
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  • Use Relevant Scenarios
  • Use Your Subject Matter Experts.
  • Add Variety.
  • Tell a Story.
Jean-Marie Cognet

How to Make Video Training More Effective for Your Corporate Workforce | Learning Techn... - 1 views

  • In particular, the use of video can be of huge benefit—but only when done correctly. Here are some tips for effectively incorporating video into your training.
  • Keep it Short
  • According to some Google researchers, the ideal video length is between three and three-and-a-half minutes
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  • Use Text in the Right Way
  • Keep text minimal, visual, and only use it to highlight keywords and concepts. If you are introducing something new that will be unfamiliar to the viewer, display that on the screen in clear text for them to see.
  • Incorporate Graphics
  • Another good technique is to break up all of the words with graphics. It’ll help everyone if there is more variety of content, but particularly the visual learners among your employees
  • Combine Instruction with Examples or Scenarios
  • Using imagined scenarios or examples can be the best way to help viewers to understand how certain instruction will apply in their day to day work, and video content is the best way to provide this.
Jean-Marie Cognet

Lecture capture | Education in Chemistry Blog - 0 views

  • Campus-wide lecture capture technology – a way to record lectures – is a major investment for universities, but is hugely popular among students.
  • Students generally do not expect a professionally produced recording, and are happy provided they can hear clearly, the recording is free from background noise and the video is sufficient.
  • The most common concern about recording lectures is that it will reduce attendance. However, most studies do not support this theory. Of my own students, only 5 out of 99 indicated that recorded lectures influenced their decision to attend. Many pointed out that there is added value in attending a lecture because they are able to ask questions.
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  • But with most recordings being released via a virtual learning environment, access can be restricted to students doing a particular course in a particular year.
  • Lecture recordings are an excellent resource for international students grappling with concepts in another language and students with disabilities who may struggle to keep pace. Our students reported that it is nice to have more time to listen to what is being said without frantically trying to write it all down. Many lecture capture systems have ‘hot spot’ metrics that staff can use to discover which portions of a lecture have been reviewed repeatedly. This can indicate concepts that students are struggling with and can enable staff to modify their approach to that concept in future years or provide additional support as necessary. Lecture capture could be used for other applications such as student presentations, demonstrating procedures, providing recordings to support lecture flipping and more. The technology is well established, but our use and how we encourage our students to use it is not. This is an opportunity for innovation when developing our teaching.
apeltier

Top Barriers for Not Using Tech in The Classroom - 1 views

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    I love this one: "Since technology is merely a tool for learning, we shouldn't plan our lessons around which tool to use or not use, or waste our time trying to determine the perfect ratio of time spent on analog vs. digital technology. That would be like if I decided one day to live a "balanced life" by cooking on a strict regimen of 50 percent spatula-prepared meals and 50 percent chopstick-prepared meals. Doesn't it make more sense to plan your meals around other goals like nourishment or craving satisfaction, rather than the bizarre balance of cooking utensils? Technology is a tool for learning, not the goal of teaching."
Florent Thiery

RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report - 0 views

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    Container use is up: Docker is used most broadly while Kubernetes grows quickly. * Overall Docker adoption increases to 49 percent from 35 percent in 2017 (a growth rate of 40 percent). * The AWS container service (ECS/EKS) follows close behind at 44 percent adoption. * Kubernetes sees the fastest growth, almost doubling to reach 27 percent adoption. * Azure Container Service and Google Container Engine also grew strongly to reach adoption of 20 percent and 14 percent, respectively. * A higher percentage of enterprises adopt all container tools as compared to SMBs, with Docker reaching 54 percent adoption among larger companies
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