“2014 has been a busy year for Opencast contributors (with the latest releases of Matterhorn 1.5 and 1.6).and with the planned release of Matterhorn 2.0, the pace is set to continue” says Andrew Wasklewicz, Co-Founder and CEO of Entwine in the company’s latest newsletter.

He refers to the development of the…

This is just a first experiment of integrating video's from the Video Portal of VU University Amsterdam  "Video.vu.nl" in REC:all Ning blogs/ articles.

It works! A nice opportunity to integrate our knowledge clips into articles.…

First there was lecture capture: professors could record their classrooms without changing the way they taught. Then came flipped classrooms – the lecture-first, discussion-later response to an increasing demand by students for a more personalized education experience. Adoption of the flipped classroom is rising rapidly and teachers are discovering what new opportunities flipping can bring for them to change the way of learning and teaching.

The Center for Digital Education, in…

The recording of the webinar "REC:all webinar: Round table with technical suppliers and solution integrators" held on 18 December 2013 is now available:…

Hereby the slides of the expert sessions on "The Challenge of mass-storage", "Subtiteling & translation" and "Copyright and I.P.R. issues" presented at the REC:all workshop, 11 December 2013.

Underneath you can find the slides of the keynote presentation by Dr. Daniel Tan and the University showcases presented at the REC:all workshop, which took place at 11 December 2013.

The second edition of the REC:all Lecture Capture workshop was held last week on Wednesday 11 December as a pre-conference of the Media & Learning Conference 2013. The workshop was held in the state of the art AGORA Learning Centre of KU…

For the REC:all pre-conference workshop in Leuven and the Lecture Capture Sessions at the Media and Learning Conference in Brussels from 11 till 13 December 2013, Mathy Vanbuel is collecting some of the most interesting publications that are related to the subjects discussed there and is postng these…

http://www.deonderwijsdagen.nl/agenda/575-programma-12-november/?dlid=1194

Tomorrow I will give a presentation about the framework of REC:all based on outcomes of the case studies.

Besides the framework were a relation is made between learning activities and integration of media, we also worked on a framework which is filled up with tools to create these media.

The…

The 10th REC:all webinar was held on 8 October 2013 and attended by 17 participants. In this one-hour session Predrag Pale from the University of Zagreb explained how he went about building a lecture capture system on the basis of the needs and resources of his own university. In the second part Stuart Phillipson from University of Manchester described how…

Always on the forefront of education and research, University College London (UCL) claims one of the world’s most sophisticated e-learning strategies and learning environments. Over the last four years UCL, the lead partner at of REC:all has run a major initiative to increase the use of lecture capture across the institution. The Echo 360 system is used, rebranded as “Lecturecast”, and starting with a small pilot project the number of instillations has rapidly grown to 62 across the…

Last monday Koos Winnips advisor ICT and Education at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) presented his "reaction lecture" model on the 9th REC:all webinar, attended by 25 participants. For everyone who missed this or wants to review, the recording is available here: …

This 6 minute video gives you an overview on how lecture capture is being used by the REC:all partners at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. Professors and students describe their experiences with the more classical lecture capture methods as well as the “Polimedias”: short studio recordings where-in professors focus on a…

Polycom publishes policy brief "The New Video Collaboration Culture in Education" describing how to prepare students for the future with video-enhanced learning. This Issue Brief on the state of video in education covers how flipped classrooms become easier to achieve, how classrooms can be enriched with subject matter experts and virtual trips and how classroom content can be recorded and be made available on demand.…

hello Folks,

This tutorial is to be found in Slideshare under my name or with keywords.

The Library NewMedia Centre of the TU Delft helps teachers and pedagogical advisors in creating online courses in MOOC's, blended bachelors and online masters.

This tutorial proved to be of great value.

And it might be complementing the guides already published.

Leon Huijbers, Head of NewMedia Centre TU Delft

IT College in Tallinn flips the diploma defendings: it streams its public diploma defendings live and gives viewers even the possibility to ask questions to the defenders by Skype: watch live... (this is a live link and it may expire after 13 June 2013)…

Click here to watch the recording of the webinar: "REC:all webinar: Capturing Estonia - One for All" with Marko Puusaar, or go to:…

For another pilot @ the VU Univesity Amsterdam, (Cinimatic City for Master Studenst on history of Films in Amsterdam) we used Kogeto Camera's to record group discussions. Because of the possiblity to film 360 degrees, the teacher could follow al the discussions in different groups later on.

Normally he can only get some glimpes of these discussions. In the environment of Kogeto, the teachers is giving feedback regarding to these discussions.

An other added value is that…