"First year economics students at Waikato University now have a better understanding of their subject, thanks to new media.
Lecturer Michael Cameron gave students the option of making a video and uploading it to YouTube rather than doing a written assignment. The subject was 'Why should you study economics?'"
"A recent nationwide survey by JogNog.com Reveals that 93% of teachers would assign online games in class if the subject matter matched their curriculum."
This duplicates quite a lot of the functionality of Panopto, but the student Moodle video assignment (starts @3:25) looks nice. Kaltura is fundamentally an open source streaming server.
"Which of the following two assignments is more likely to engage high school students and inspire them to learn something?
1. Write a paper about contemporary US war veterans.
2. Create a multimedia resource of news feeds, archival video, student interviews with veterans, document how you accomplished it, and share your findings with the world."
"When I heard a teacher tell me that they were creating recorded lectures for courses as homework assignments and spending classroom time on discussions and more active learning, I knew right then the value of the lecture capture tools."
"'The creation of video and the publishing of video is getting to the point where it's almost as easy as creating a written assignment,' says Kyle D. Bowen, Purdue University's director of informatics."s recent experience.
"...Drs. Curto and Laudato describe a technique for providing feedback via rich media capture. Much like comments in the margins of a written assignment, feedback is received at the appropriate time point in the presentation."
"Do you pass back exams, a set of papers or grades on some other student project and offer generic comments on what the class did and didn't do well on the assignment?"