Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Capturing Estonia - One for All
1. Capturing Estonia - One for All
Marko Puusaar
Information Technology Foundation for Education
Innovation Centre for Digital Education
Echo360 EMEA Community Conference 2013
7. Some facts and figures
• We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 100 000+ users and 47+ schools
8. Some facts and figures
• We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 100 000+ users and 47+ schools
• With the help of European Social Fund we have supported
the development of new e-learning materials in the amount
of 3000+ European credit points (ECTS)
9. Some facts and figures
• We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 100 000+ users and 47+ schools
• With the help of European Social Fund we have supported
the development of new e-learning materials in the amount
of 3000+ European credit points (ECTS)
• All the developed materials are freely available in our
central repository (www.e-ope.ee/en/repository/) under a
Creative Commons license
10. Co-operation
The Estonian e-University consortium
The Estonian e-VET consortium
The Tiger School consortium (in the process of forming)
The go-to partner for Estonian Ministry of Education and
Research regarding technology in education
12. Looking back on
how it all started:
• August 2008 – 3 schools testing “the new
thing” for a semester
• 2009 – all the main universities in Estonia
adapted lecture capture to their workflow
• 2011 – applied science universities joined
forces to start using lecture capture
14. Today
• 7450+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 29 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
15. Today
• 7450+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 29 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 359 000+ views
16. Today
• 7450+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 29 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 359 000+ views
• 150+ hours captured every week
17. Today
• 7450+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 29 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 359 000+ views
• 150+ hours captured every week
• 14 universities and applied science universities using the
same solution
18. Today
• 7450+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 29 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 359 000+ views
• 150+ hours captured every week
• 14 universities and applied science universities using the
same solution
• about 50 000+ students (potentially benefitting from lecture
capture)
19. How it call came to be?
1. A bunch of “crazy” people believed in it!
20. How it call came to be?
1. A bunch of “crazy” people believed in it!
2. The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
supported the initial investment
21. How it call came to be?
1. A bunch of “crazy” people believed in it!
2. The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
supported the initial investment
3. Some felt left out and decided to join because the “hip”
schools were “doing it”
22. How it call came to be?
1. A bunch of “crazy” people believed in it!
2. The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
supported the initial investment
3. Some felt left out and decided to join because the “hip”
schools were “doing it”
4. EU funding for innovation in applied science universities
helped a lot
23. How it call came to be?
1. A bunch of “crazy” people believed in it!
2. The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
supported the initial investment
3. Some felt left out and decided to join because the “hip”
schools were “doing it”
4. EU funding for innovation in applied science universities
helped a lot
5. The new users could join simply without worring about
technical details
25. Classrooms
• Mostly SafeCapture HD appliances
• A zoo of audio and video equipment (mostly analog
connections).
• All classrooms connected to at least 100MBit/s internet.
• Mobile units have a separate router with them that does
DHCP for the appliance and computer used to monitor it.
27. Servers
• VMWare cluster of 9 physical servers (shared with other
services)
• 6 virtual servers dedicated to serve only the ESS
• 8+TB of storage for Echoes (original media deleted in 90-180
days, final products saved indefinitely)
28. Support
• 1st level support in Estonia by e-mail, phone and Skype
• 2nd level support by Echo360 mediated by our foundation
29. Some interesting facts
• Variation of subjects captured:
The Laws of Nature, Practical Mathematics, Esthetics,
Ethics of Engineering, Women in Aviation
• Capturing really catches up if there is understading of the
need for it on the management level
• Capturing lectures has motivated lecturers to conduct more
self-evaluation of themselves as lecturers
30. Academic acceptance
• Step-by-step approach
• First the innovative lecturers lead the way and others will
follow ;)
• Students feedback! Lecturers need to know that capturing
lectures is really needed
• Simple tools to help the lecturers
33. Thanks for the images:
• Slide 12: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kusito/363846688/ by Markus M. under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
• Slide 24: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arthurjohnpicton/5364226117/ by SomeDriftwood CC BY 2.0
• Slides 25-28: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clearlyambiguous/47939621/ by Scott Robinson CC BY 2.0
• Slides 21-26: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cefeida/2167070556/ by Madzia Bryll under CC BY 2.0
• Slides 31: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spree2010/4930764896/ by Ingo Bernhardt under CC BY 2.0
