5 Classroom Design Strategies for Lecture Capture

Having just come from the Earl Straub Classroom Expansion User Group meeting, classroom design for the future is on my mind. It’s a good time to review “5 Classroom Design Strategies for Lecture Capture.” This article presents 5 simple and succinct things to remember in classroom design. Thanks, Campus Technology.

So how do these apply to the UO? Here’s what I would recommend for each of these:

1) Effective classroom design should consider the growing need to accommodate increasing levels of video capture.

–> As we renovate, we should build this into the classrooms. But instead of building the costs into the project budget, we should build the costs into the classroom technologies budget to ensure not only one-time start up costs but also equipment refresh.

2) Video origination should be considered for integration into a larger number of classrooms and conference rooms.

–> We need to build integration into our LMSs, which also means a storage strategy for videos. While some of this could go onto publicly available and hosted sites, some of this content may need to be protected. And don’t forget captioning.

3) Personal capture will become an increasingly important factor in content creation.

–> Absolutely! The UO College of Education has a local video capture solution for its faculty, which has been particularly well integrated into the American Sign Language courses. This sort of solution would be useful in many disciplines, especially in supporting flipped classrooms as well.

4) Minimal but adequate video postproduction skills will become increasingly necessary.

–> Faculty Summer Workshops in technology were wildly popular a decade ago on the University of Oregon campus and the program’s demise (due to budget cuts presumably) has been lamented a LOT recently by faculty. It’s time we brought these back, with an added goal of scaling them to serve many more faculty.

–> The availability of post production software for faculty and students alike is critical.

5) Curriculum development and faculty training will be required to create effective online material.

–> What works well in a classroom may not work well on screen. Instructional technologists and pedagogical experts can team up with video production experts to support faculty. Wardrobe, hair, make up, set design, lighting, sound, cinematography… represent categories of topics that play into the quality of a finished learning object.

–> *** We hear it over and over again, because it is true and so overwhelming. Faculty lack TIME. How can we ask faculty to create new and effective online material without substantial resources and assistance when they are already being asked to do two new preps over the one-week spring break? We need to boost our instructional technology and pedagogy support levels and bring back summer workshops. We need to provide incentives for select programs that require substantial reworking of both the curricula and learning objects. ***

 

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