This document discusses building video infrastructure to support education at a university campus. It identifies needs such as collaboration tools that allow for audio and video communication, automated lecture capture, and 24/7 video availability. It also outlines various video types, functionality requirements, existing technologies, dependencies, and missing elements to consider in developing a video solution. The goal is to empower education through video while balancing simplicity and complexity from an individual, institutional, and international perspective.

1. Building video infrastructure for
campus
NORDUnet 2012, HiOA Oslo, 2012-09-19
Ingrid Melve (CTO) and Thorleif Hallén (Video project manager), Uninett

2. Education
Information Lectures Reflection Mentoring Assessment
Forum/LMS Meetings:
Text documents Social media Skype, phone, web, video
conference Exams: online, digital school
type, study hall
News, messages
Lecture books, learning
Forum/LMS Discussion, chat
objects
Web site, university portal Tests: LMS, survey
Podcast: Audio, video Study hall, kitchen table Forum/LMS
Text documents
Notes and reports: LMS
Virtual meetings: web
Links and references Podcast
Email meetings, video conference

3. Research
Research community Research project Data Analysis Publication, dissemination
Data capture: Report, notes
Organizational support Project proposal and plan
sensors, surveys, interviews
Data crunching
Paper publication
Data storage:
Coffee breaks Collaboration tools
text, audio, database, video
Discussion, chat Research based teaching
Talking with colleagues Document sharing Data analysis
Review related material
Collaboration tools: video
meetings, shared workspace
Processing related research Email, email, email Data access
Curated data access

5. What do we need?
 Collaboration tools
 Speaking to all senses, more than text 
 Easy to use, play well with unified communication tools
 Students initiate (eCampus web meeting: students host)
 Lecture capture
 Power of the lecture
 Automated, dependable
 Sound is more important than moving pictures
 Video as a process
 Video at your fingertips: practice session, reflection
 24/7 availability

6. Video types
Communication Video production
 Realtime:  Editing?
phone, Skype, web  Capture live, no edit
meeting, videoconferen  Production
ce  Life time
 Instant: streaming, process
 1-to-1  Semester or forever
 1-to-many  Production site
 Many-to-many  Workplace
 Asyncronous  Lecture room
 1-to-1  Studio
 Practice
 1-to-many
 Many-to-many

7. Simplicity ------------------- Complexity
Individual ------------------ Instiutions ----------------- International

8. University
Professor
Students

9. Functionality
 Video on demand  Rights management
 Live streaming  Federated login
 Audio only  Directory enabled
 Video only  Mobile device support
 Video and slides  Integration with room
 Screenscrape with control panels
audio  Platform independent
 Podcast  No lock-in
 RSS-feeds  Integration with LMS

10. Technology currently deployed
 LMS (local management, shared operations)
 Video and screencast capture
 MediaSite
 CamtasiaRelay
 Matterhorn
 Videoconference and phone:
 Lync, H.323 (incl capture units), SIP
 Web meeting
 AdobeConnect
 File sharing
 CloudStor

11. Education
Information Lectures Reflection Mentoring Assessment
Web meeting:
Studio: Podcast: AdobeConnect
MediaSite Matterhorn pilot Oral exam on
Web meeting: web
AdobeConnect meeting/video
conference
Video
conferences
Desktop: Podcast:
CamtasiaRelay MediaSite
Study
hall, kitchen
table
Video VDI digital
Orientation conference exam client??
Podcast:
meeting: Adobe Video diary:
CamtasiaRelay
Connect CamtasiaRelay

12. Dependencies
 Wireless network: eduroam et al
 The wired network is for servers
 Wireless is for users
 Student reality:
 Heterogeneous: Tablets, smart phones, PCs, Macs
 Digital competence: varies wildly
 Lecturer reality:
 Time bound: 45 min lectures, no extra work
 Digital competence varies
 Available solutions
 Education is not entertainment
 Collaboration and information availability matter!

13. Dependencies: server side technical
issues
 Aggregated bandwidth
 Latency, jitter variations, volume
 Medium scale video
 Real time is small-medium
 On-demand is all through the day and night
 Storage: video takes space, HD video takes more
 Access management
 Identity layer: depending on federation technology
 Missing piece: virtual organizations integrated with
university live organization and research project
 Shift from local servers to cloud services

14. Missing parts
 Digital competence
 Where are the changes in education taking us?
 Digital skills
 Wireless networks everywhere
 Mobile networks and Wifi
 Need more eduroam!
 Media management integrated with learning support
 Class rooms integrated with learning environment
 Virtual organizations
 Class groups, study groups, research projects

15. Shopping list Roadmap for video in
education
Local investment Shared services
 Digital competence  Network for competence
 Web meeting support  Web meeting service
 Video conference room  Video conference support
and handholding
 Lecture capture server
 Lecture capture agents
 Multiple solutions
 Screen capture or video?
 Automated lecture hall  Media management
 Portal/LMS integration  Storage
 Identity management  Access management
 Common specifications  Common specifications