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Copyright and intellectual property policy on lecture capture ‘evolving’, says report, but institutions should provide supportive advice to academics

Universities will take “risks” on copyright and intellectual property rights infringement when recording lectures because there is still so much “uncertainty” within the sector as to what is appropriate policy, according to the authors of new research into the issue.

nearly three-quarters of UK institutions started lecture recording in 2016, but 40 per cent of respondents to the report’s survey said that their institutions only “kind of” had policy documents on the topic.

While investment to date is on track for a slight decline from last year, deal activity in HR tech has grown consistently in the last 5 years and at the current rate is expected to increase more than 15 percent over 2015. This amazing investment growth—much of it spent on integrated human resource management system (HRMS) platforms for midsize companies—illustrates the industry’s volatility. That instability is being driven by the shift from cloud to mobile; the explosion in analytics and artificial intelligence; and the emergence of video, social recruiting and wearables in the workplace. Everything is changing, and quickly—including the types of technology HR professionals use, the experiences those systems deliver and the underlying software designs—making many of the traditional HR systems purchased only a decade ago seem out of date.

“More video is uploaded to YouTube in one month than the 3 major US TV networks created in 60 years.”

VidTel and Vaddio have partnered to provide a cloud-based videoconferencing platform and equipment that allows the user to participate from a variety of systems and devices. VidTel's MeetMe uses Vaddio's EasyUSB tools.

What was Microsoft doing at the recent HTML5 Video Summit in Los Angeles? Explaining to the audience how its video solutions take advantage of HTML5.

"We're seeing a lot of large enterprises moving from traditional Windows Media Multicast technology to Flash Multicast technology," said Erik Herz, director of business development for MediaPlatform,

The move to Flash, curiously, is driven partly by strong Apple iPad use.

Top-Ten IT Issues, 2012 Updating IT professionals' skills and roles to accommodate emerging technologies and changing IT management and service delivery models Supporting the trends toward IT consumerization and bring-your-own device Developing an institution-wide cloud strategy Improving the institution's operational efficiency through information technology Integrating information technology into institutional decision-making Using analytics to support critical institutional outcomes Funding information technology strategically Transforming the institution's business with information technology Supporting the research mission through high-performance computing, large data, and analytics Establishing and implementing IT governance throughout the institution

While ATEME and others work on HEVC, the company says its new codec can deliver 4K and 8K video over IP using existing MPEG-4 compression

If you weren’t working from a prepared script during your webinar, you’ll probably use a transcription service to prepare the text transcript file from your audio recording.

There are many service providers who offer transcription. Note that if your subject is highly technical, with buzzwords and abbreviations, you will need to review the transcript to clean up things the transcriber doesn’t understand. I don’t have a recommendation for a transcription provider. Just search on “audio transcription” or “transcription services.” You will be surprised how inexpensive audio transcription is nowadays.

How does it work? The magic happens on the surface of a special crystal called lithium niobate (LiNbO3), which boasts excellent optical properties. Beneath the surface of the LiNbO3, microscopic channels, or "waveguides," are created to confine light passing through. A metal electrode is then deposited onto each waveguide, which can produce surface acoustic waves.

Instead of a color wheel, any color combination is possible with their approach simply by altering the frequency of the signal sent to the "white waveguide pixel." In other words, Smalley said, "we can color the output of our display by 'coloring' the frequencies of the drive signal." "As a bonus, this interaction also rotates the polarization of the signal light so that we can use a polarizer to eliminate any noise in the system," he added.

This can drop the cost of a holographic video display from tens of thousands of dollars to less than a thousand

Many think learning content management system (LCMS) is just a fancy term for learning management system (LMS). This isn’t necessarily true. They do share some basic functionality, but a LCMS includes something that puts it in a league of its own: the ability to author and manage content. Content is something a LMS just simply cannot do.

Modern LCMSs manage every aspect of the learning process, both informal and formal, from rapid authoring to delivery. The system can be used to develop collaborative content with design templates, reuse content nuggets across courses and learning departments, import content from other authoring tools, and publish the content across multiple outputs and devices.

Video-enhanced learning tools however are relatively inexpensive to produce, can be viewed when it’s convenient and without the need for travel

Live presentations can be recorded and time stamped, so when they are used for training, managers can refer to specific sections according to relevance. This saves time and increases engagement with the subject matter.

The ease with which videos can be produced also provides companies with the ability to take control over their training processes,

Dans un "working paper" publié fin août 2015 sur la plateforme en ligne arXiv.org , deux chercheurs de Harvard et du MIT révèlent avoir décelé une nouvelle technique de fraude propre aux Mooc.

Comment fonctionne la fraude ? Un utilisateur crée plusieurs comptes, dont l'un est le compte principal grâce auquel il finira par obtenir le certificat. Les autres comptes fantômes servent à obtenir les réponses aux différents quizz d'évaluation et ainsi alimenter le compte d'origine. C'est ce que les chercheurs appellent la technique Cameo pour "copying answers using multiple existences online".

parmi les titulaires de 20 certifications ou plus, 25% auraient été obtenus en trichant.

21% of the respondents said they find out about upcoming webinars on LinkedIn.

“What do you use webinars for?” the respondents put “Opportunity to hear from leading industry speakers” in the lead at 39%, followed by “Educational resource” at 34%.

H.264 video actually became dominant in HTML5 video in October, 2010, when it was used in 54 percent of HTML5 videos. That rose to 63 percent in February, 2011, and 69 percent in June, 2011. MeFeedia notes that its growth as a percentage has slowed, but adoption is increasing.

More than eight in ten executives (84 percent) in this year’s survey view learning as an important (40 percent) or very important (44 percent) issue. Employees at all levels expect dynamic, self-directed, continuous learning opportunities from their employers. Despite the strong shift toward employee-centric learning, many learning and development organizations are still struggling with internally focused and outdated platforms and static learning approaches.

To facilitate the effort to help employees “learn how to learn,” L&D teams are building internal knowledge-sharing programs, developing easy-to-use portals and video sharing systems, and promoting collaborative experiences at work that help people constantly learn and share knowledge.

Almost $1 billion of this went into tools, content, and companies that focus on the corporate market.6

Approximately 65 percent of people are visual learners and their propensity for watching videos online shows no signs of slowing down. The video component of e-learning helps to increase engagement by delivering content in a familiar, episodic fashion.

This ties in with microlearning, which is known to increase both engagement and knowledge retention by breaking learning down into manageable increments.

E-learning is scalable, and can be rolled out to more departments as the needs of the company change. As the skills needed for certain roles evolve, e-learning can be customized to specific, relevant content for employees without breaking the bank. As the saying goes, time is money, and e-learning has been shown to provide considerable savings by reducing time spent on training. It also offers savings on costs for external trainers, travel, materials and time spent out of the business. Case in point, after switching from traditional to online training, IBM delivered five times the amount of training for only one third of the cost – a saving of $200 million dollars. An IBM report found that investing in training can positively impact employee retention rates, with new employees 43% more likely to stay at a new job when training is provided