Presentation given at the Rec:all workshop in Leuven Belgium on December 11th 2013 about lecture capture in Norway

1. Infrastructure for
lecture Capture on a
national scale in
Norway
REC: All Leuven, Belgium December 11th 2013
Thorleif Hallén

2. About UNINETT
The NREN in Norway
Celebrating 20 years in 2013…
…by connecting more than 200 educational and
research institutions…
…and more than 300 000 users.
More and more focus on «near end user
services»
We have the bandwidth to do «anything»
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3. UNINETT eCampus
A programme hosted by UNINETT, Funded by Ministry of Education, 20122016 approx 9 Mill. Euros
Aims to remove barriers between lecturers, students and technology
Three focus areas
Collaborative tools
Lecture Capture
Architecture for flexible learning
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4. eCampus and lecture capture
A project under the eCampus umbrella
Goal: Lecture capture or video in more than 5% of every lecture in Norway
Shared services
Best practice
Working groups for sharing of knowledge
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5. eCampus and shared services
Reduces cost - economies of scale
Lower threshold
Concentrate knowledge
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6. Camtasia Relay
Low cost solution for easy recordings
Central service since 2011
Extremely easy to use
Too simple in some cases
No Media management
Little editing
No access control
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7. OpenCast Matterhorn
Pilot
Low cost solution
Development of added functionality
Multi tenancy
Federated logins
Testing right now
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8. Mediasite
Shared service since January 2012
Premium lecture capture
Turnkey solution
Expensive, but value for money
Works on any device
Robust
Strong on metadata
Good API
Also a Video Management System
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9. My Mediasite
Camtasia Relay on steroids
Access control
Editing
Personal analytics
Mobile recording
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10. Why Mediasite
Demand
Premium solution
Architecture
Financial model that makes sense
Good cooperation with Sonic Foundry
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11. Mediasite adoption in Norway
2011: 6-8 Universities in Norway using Mediasite
Today: 24 using UNINETTs central solution (More than half)
More than 11000 lectures recorded
Closing in on a million views
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12. Narvik University College
Small - 2000 students. 6 people in IT
100% Automated recordings
More than 40000 views - by 600 students
Shared solution crucial for easy roll out
Appreciate robustness - unable to do that by themselves
Knowledge sharing and knowledge concentration
Makes sense financially
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13. Nord-Trøndelag University College
Also small - 4000 students
Focus on My Mediasite
Automatic import from Lync recordings
Saves money (and work) by doing it together with others
Don’t have to care about uptime and server maintenance
Appreciates the community for knowledge sharing and customer power
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14. Arctic University of Norway
Long time user of Mediasite - hosted at Norwegian reseller
Moved to UNINETTs installation early 2012
Run their own video server
Saves money on shared solution
Good service (!) - updates are installed quickly
Knowledge sharing in group of users
Increased customer power
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15. Future work - the easy part
Load balancer
Load balancer
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16. Future work - the not so easy part
More use
Better use
Winning over the sceptics
Utilize the infrastructure
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17. Summary
Mediasite in Norway has been a great success because…
We have the networks
We are working together
We have the right product
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thorleif.hallen@uninett.no
@thorleif
https://www.uninett.no/en
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