Best Practices

As a reference, cf. wikipedia on LMS and DAMS.

(Redirect from Lecture Capture / Lecture Capture System) 

Academic Video Management System (AVMS) 

I do a lot of local presentation capture for the MIT Club of Northern California using our NCast Telepresenter capture stations (http://www.ncast.com). I've posted a bunch of this stuff on Vimeo (http://www.vimeo.com) for high-resolution playback. One of the captures I did is still one of my all-time favorites, a talk about the history of the Universe by Dr. George Smoot.

When I was a faculty member of the department of information systems at Tottori University of Environmental Studies, I have developed a video archive system for daily manual recording. Since 2004, the department has been recording all lectures by camcorders and streaming them through a campus network. A unique aspect of the activity is that all videos are manually recorded by student staff without expensive auto-recording equipment. We record about 300 lectures in one semester, which means that we have to process twenty videos a week. Without dedicated staff, this is a challenge.

BIBS, a lecture webcasting system developed and operated by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center, later became Berkeley's webcast system.

This report (circa 2001) details the BIBS system; provides information on its evaluation, including how students and faculty used it; and describes directions for future research and development.