Lecture Capture on-the-fly
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
Wired Campus Blog, May 23, 2007
Wired Campus Blog, May 23, 2007
Coursecasting Made Easy
In 24 classrooms at the University of Washington, devices are capturing lectures and almost immediately making them available to the entire student population via automatic Internet feeds.
Washington students used to have to walk to the university library to get these recordings, reports Campus Technology. Now they can download them directly.
The key is a device called a Barix Instreamer, which takes audio from the classroom PA system and sends it to a university server as an easy-to-use MP3 file. That can be done with standard computers as well, but computer are prone to glitches during audio capture, according to a university technology official, while the Instreamers are "bulletproof."
--Josh Fischman
posted by Andrew at 3:22 PM
1 Comments:
This is awesome. So glad UW is doing this! We use these to deliver mp3 podcasts of course lectures at UC Berkeley (webcast.berkeley.edu) also. They work great for us. One concern is that they do not store and forward, only stream, so if you have a network outage (or if the computer catching the streams has a glitch) you could lose a lecture. The alternative is to install a computer in the classroom to capture the barix stream locally, but then you could just use the computer to capture the files and not use a barix. Not sure if this issue is real or perceived as they have delivered for us...
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