The document discusses the role of multimedia in higher education. It notes that multimedia can assist teaching and learning by illustrating concepts, condensing information, and simulating experiences. It provides examples of how multimedia is used in Estonia, including a large Moodle installation and lecture capture system. It argues that multimedia helps attract student attention and makes education more flexible by allowing lessons to be accessed remotely. The presentation concludes by asking whether more multimedia should be used to support learning and teaching in higher education.

1. Media in Higher Education
Marko Puusaar, Jüri Lõssenko, Ene Koitla
Estonian Information Technology Foundation
Estonian e-Learning Development Centre
Higher Education – Higher Level Learning?
24th January 2013

3. Plan
Hello
The role of multimedia in learning
Flipped classroom
Lecture capture

4. Estonian e-Learning
Development Centre

5. Our passion
Supporting learning
through the internet

6. Some facts and figures
! We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools

7. Some facts and figures
! We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools
! We have supported the development of new e-learning
materials in the amount of 3000+ European credit points
(ECTS)

8. Some facts and figures
! We host (probably) the biggest Moodle installation in
Europe with 90 000+ users and 47+ schools
! 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

9. Co-operation
The Estonian e-University consortium
The Estonian e-VET consortium
All together 44 schools all over Estonia

10. www.e-ope.ee

11. ?
Should more multimedia be used
to support learning and teaching in
higher education?

12. Role of multimedia in
education

13. Assist teaching and learning
• Illustrate
• Condense
• Simulate

14. Provide experiences by using
cinematic techniques
• Movement
• Viewpoint
• 3D
• Slow/fast motion
• Staged events (e.g. dramatised enactments)

15. Demonstrate skills
• Manual/craft
• Body movement
• Reasoning
• Language

16. Nurture learning
• Stimulating appetite for learning
• Motivating a strategy by showing its success
• Alleviating isolation of the distant learner
• Reassuring/encouraging self confidence
• Entertain, fascinate, delight, amuse

17. before | in | after

18. Flipped classroom

19. Flipped classroom
Before class: get to know the topic
In class: discuss and synthesize

21. What is it?
Re c o r d i n g o f c l a s s r o o m - b a s e d
activities in a digital format that
students can then watch over the web,
on a computer or their mobile device

22. What is it?

23. Why?
Life brings us unexpected events
Students work
Education has to be flexible

24. Who uses it (in Estonia)
! University of Tartu ! TTK University of Applied
Sciences
! Tallinn University of
Technology ! Lääne-Viru College
! Tallinn University ! Estonian National Defence
College
! Estonian University of Life
Sciences ! Estonian Academy of
Security Sciences
! Estonian Information
Technology College ! Estonian Aviation Academy
! Tallinn Health Care College ! Tallinn Polytechnic School

25. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…

26. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)

27. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 281 000+ views

28. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 281 000+ views
• 147+ hours captured every week

29. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 281 000+ views
• 147+ hours captured every week
• 14 universities and applied science universities using the
same solution

30. Lecture Capture in Estonia
• 5500+ lectures recorded and published…
• …with only 25 classrooms equipped with the solution (some
of them are mobile units)
• 281 000+ views
• 147+ hours captured every week
• 14 universities and applied science universities using the
same solution
• about 50 000+ students

31. Recap
• Multimedia helps to attract attention
and brings
• Flipping the classroom is possible
• Education can be flexible (and lecture
capture helps in that)

32. Once again
Should more multimedia be used
to support learning and teaching in
higher education?

33. Thank you
Lets talk…
Marko Puusaar
marko.puusaar@eitsa.ee
Skype: mpuusaar
Twitter: @mpuusaar

34. Thanks for the images:
! Slides 18 and 19: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cali4beach/8104594017/ by Cali4beach under CC BY 2.0
! Slide 20: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmquan/2289728133/ by pmquan under CC BY 2.0
! Slide 31: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kusito/363846688/ by Markus M. under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0