The Ultimate Study Guide - Student-Defined Lecture Remixes
Posted by Patrick Donovan on Fri, Feb 22, 2008 @ 05:12 PM
This week, we were extremely proud to announce our entry into the Educational video market with Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. Carleton University has a long history of using video to augment the students’ learning process, and for the past three years has offered all its courses through its video on demand service.
Starting this semester, Carleton students can take advantage of VideoNotes™, an on-line video portal powered by Gotuit that lets students annotate the classroom lecture video and create remixes that can be used as study guides for particular topics.
Students can mark scenes from the lecture video, give those scenes their own title, description and keywords, and create a remix/mashup with both scenes they defined as well as scenes defined by others.
Students can now effectively search inside the two-hour lecture videos to find the specific topics of interest, and share what they find or create with the community. This is all achieved leveraging metadata, without any video editing or new videos being stored.
Here is a link to one student’s highlights from Lecture 4 of Professor Dan McIntyre’s Introduction to Psychology course, dealing with Motivation: http://videonotes.carleton.ca/?mid=25.
VideoNotes is another great example of using the power of metadata to deliver a personalized viewing experience that optimizes the value of the video library. Allowing the students themselves to define what is relevant further engages them in the learning process and deepens their understanding of the content.
(And to be clear, we also believe they should still go to class and not just watch video.)