Multimedia Management Service (Elevate Team): 2015

The Elevate Team allow staff to upload videos to the Elevate Team YouTube channel, for use in teaching, learning and assessment. On occasions the Elevate Team will be involved in the capture and edit of the videos, or we'll simple enable the distribution. This service has been growing over time, and provides an alternative to course teams needing to support their own approach.

The following outlines the use of this service in 2015.

Total number of videos uploaded: 443

• Student Presentations: 242 (55%)
• Student Viva's: 3 (1%)
• Student Role Plays: 94 (21%)
• Recordings of online events (Hangouts): 5 (1%)
• Screencasts (talk over powerpoints & how to videos): 23 (5%)
• Staff focussed Learning Objects: 47 (11%)
• Marketing (external audience): 12 (3%)
• Other: 17 (3%)

The Elevate Team are starting a review of how people are using Multimedia in their teaching and learning models to ensure the service we provide is fit for staff needs. For more information, see;

• http://ucselevate.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/how-is-multimedia-video-being-used-in.html

With thanks - Image - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Nuvola_apps_multimedia.svg

How is multimedia (video) being used in teaching and learning at UCS? Will the current approach for managing multimedia meet future needs?

The following post outlines a small scale research (thought leadership) piece of work the Elevate Team will be undertaking in over the next few months. If you have any questions, or would like to contribute your story, please contact elevate@ucs.ac.uk.

What we are doing?

The broad aims of this research project are to undertake a preliminary exploration into how multimedia (video) is currently being used at UCS within teaching, learning and assessment, and draw out some likely future requirements from lecturers. This research project is to act as a landscape study, to identify where we are now, where might we might need to be in the future with respect to multimedia.

The study will review the current Elevate Team model for multimedia creation, storage, distribution and archive of multimedia, with the aim of suggesting future enhancements within the service. This will include exploring alternative service provisions.

The output of each phase will be a short report made available through the Elevate Team Blog, and the final report (combination of all outputs and recommendations) will be reported back to the UCS’s LTAG and IT Services Strategy Group for information.

What is the timeframe?
The proposed timeframe is March-June 2015, with three key phases;

1. Review of the Elevate Team Multimedia Support Model: March 2015
2. User Stories (Lecturer’s Tales): April 2015
3. Alternative Institutional Support Models: June 2015

Methodology: Lecturer Stories
Undertake a number (target 20) 1-2-1 semi structured interviews. These aim to answer two question.
Answer two questions:

1. How are your currently using multimedia (video) in your teaching, learning and assessment?
2. How would you like to use multimedia (video) in the future?

With thanks - Image - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Nuvola_apps_multimedia.svg