Slides from ISD Digital Roadshow @IOE 29th June 2016 Jason Norton, UCL Digital Education

1. Lecturecast
(Echo360 at UCL)
Jason Norton
Digital Education Services Manager

2. • “Lecturecast” – Is the in house name for Echo360
• Currently Installed in 92 teaching spaces across the
Bloomsbury Campus and beyond
• 23 New installations occurring this summer in the IOE
Lecture recording at UCL

3. • 5000+ hour teaching events recorded in 2015-16
• Only 12-15% of all possible events the could be captured
• 640,000 student views of recordings in 2015-16
• 10,000+ pieces of available media on the system
• In UCL student surveys it was the most requested educational
technology (more captures/more locations
Some Information

4. How do I get Captured?
Currently there is no integration between the room booking and Lecturecast
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lecturecast
1) Ensure that you have booked/requested a room with Lecturecast
2) Book the Lecturecast recording via the booking website
3) Check that you have received a confirmation
4) Deliver you lecture while wearing the microphone provide – you will be
automatically recorded
*Lecturecast bookings require 3 working days notice

5. Content and Publishing
• Content is normally available in 4 hours, however say 24 hours due to possible
processing backlogs during peak times
• Once available the owner or administrator can
• Choose to edit or not
• Choose to release or not
• You can also like a large majority of users auto-publish
• Publishing is normally done via Moodle either direct link to content or more
normally a course page.

7. Other content
Media content not captured by the system can also be uploaded directly to the
Echo360 system as long as it uses a standard media format. (eg .mp3, mp4)
ECho360 iOS App – that allows direct capture and upload (Android coming)

8. • A personal capture client software is available for
download.
• Has facilitated a growth in :-
LectureCast via your desktop
Flipped teaching
Is a form of blended learning which encompasses any use of technology
to leverage the learning in a classroom, so a teacher can spend more
time interacting with students instead of lecturing.

10. Viewing Content
Content can be viewed on:
• Any browser PC
• Any browser Mac
• Any browser on an HTML5 compatible Mobile device
Content can be:
• Secure (requiring UCL login)
• Open access
• https://lecturecast.ucl.ac.uk:8443/ess/echo/presentation/15a4d43f-6779-4243-9f3e-497aeb9196cf

11. Analytics

12. Common Questions
• Does Lecture capture affect lecture attendance?
• What about copyright and performing rights?
• https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/copyright/ipr

13. Student Attendance
• Anecdotal evidence from academics over the last 7 years of use at UCL suggests overall
attendance has not been affected by the use of Lecture Capture
• Globally the evidence via research is significant that students will not be dissuaded
from attending lectures by the existence of recorded lectures. It was shown in studies
that students regard recordings as a supplementary tool, an aid to their revision, and
not as a replacement for live lectures.

14. Franklin, D. D., Gibson, J. W., Samuel, J.C., Teeter, W. A. & Clarkson, C. W., 2011, Use of Lecture Recordings in Medical
Education, in Medical Science Educator, 21(1), pp.21-28.
Gosper, M., Green, D., McNeill, M., Philips, R., Preston, G. & Woo, K., 2008, Final Report: The Impact of Web-Based
Lecture Technologies on Current and Future Practices in Learning and Teaching, Sydney: Australian Learning and
Teaching Council.
Karnad, Arun (2013), Student use of recorded lectures: a report reviewing recent research into the use of lecture
capture technology in higher education, and its impact on teaching methods and attendance,London School of
Economics and Political Science, London, UK, at http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/50929/.
Soong, S.K.A., Chan, L.K. & Cheers, C., 2006, Impact of video recorded lectures among students, in Proceedings of
the 23rd annual ascilite conference: Who’s learning? Whose technology?, Ascilite 2006, Sydney, The University of
Sydney. Sydney, pp. 789–793.
Traphagan, T., Kucsera, J. V. & Kishi, K., 2009, Impact of class lecture webcasting on attendance and learning,
Educational Technology Research & Development, 58(1), pp.19–37.
References Lecture Capture Attendance

15. UCL Opt-Out
Educational Strategy 2016-21 (page 18)
“expand the Lecturecast Service into UCL’s largest
classrooms and introduce an opt-out policy in response to
student feedback”
We are hoping to bring in the Opt-Out policy and the supporting
technical tools for the start of session 2017/18

16. • New LectureCast Software
• Room booking integration
• Enhanced user interface
• Engagement tools
• Increase reporting and analytics
• Near instant availability of captured content
• Streaming
• Student use
Future developments 2017/18

17. Service Page (FAQ’s Information and links to the booking form)
http://ww.ucl.ac.uk/lecturecast
LectureCast Resource Centre (Guidance, instruction and policy details)
https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/LecturecastResourceCentre/Home
Useful Links

18. Any Questions, Seeking Guidance, Requesting for Training
Please email:
digi-ed@ucl.ac.uk
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