Much attention is focused on lecture capturing in tertiary education recently for various reasons – medium of instruction, availability of teachers/students, teaching and learning innovation, etc. Experts working in the field will share their practice and explore the future of lecture capturing in the next HERDSA Dialog.

Date: Monday 22nd March 2010, from 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Venue: Room 906 (9/F), City Top, Amenity Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong

Thomas NG & Anthony HO (HKUST)
Remote Video Capture (RVC) is a campus-wide video recording service provided by the Publishing Technology Center (PTC). It enables faculty to video record all their lectures in a semester, and students to review their lectures at any time and place convenient to them.
With RVC, video images of the teacher, whiteboard, computer screen, and the sound tracks are captured by devices pre-installed in the classroom. The audiovisual files are then transmitted to PTC for producing lecture videos which are then uploaded online a few days after the class.
There is no visible production crew in the classroom, and no equipment setup or pre-training is required. All a teacher needs to do is book one of the 37 RVC-equipped venues at the start of a semester – and teach.

Edman CHAN & Paul LAM (CUHK)
We started a small-scale pilot study on the use of Echo 360, a lecture recording devices, in two of our lecture halls (one at Price of Wales Hospital and one at Faculty of Science) about half a year ago. The purposes were to investigate technical feasibility as well as the practicality of such systems in the eyes of teachers. Not many teachers have used the system so far for various reasons. We will talk about some of these challenges as well as our plan to make it forward.

Crusher WONG (CityUHK)
What do we want to achieve with lecture capturing? How should the solution perform? Who should be involved? With Echo360, we learned that lecture capturing is a major investment. A revolutionary deployment may be required to justify its existence.

RSVP 18 March 2009
Fee: $130 for non-members; $120 for members
For registration and enquiry, please email crusher.wong@cityu.edu.hk

Crusher Wong
Education Development Office
City University of Hong Kong
Email: crusher.wong@cityu.edu.hk
Phone: 3442 6633