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Lecturers' Reactions To Automated Lecture Capture Introduction

Lecture capture (video recordings of lectures) are becoming increasingly popular in higher education and can be expected to become a standard for majority of lectures in the future. However, there are a number of obstacles on this road influencing the pace of the adoption process and the quality of resulting lecture captures. Most of the obstacles are related to financial and human factor issues. While financial issues are generally unavoidable, human factor issues can also be equally challenging: lecturers often have too low technical competences to create lecture captures, as well as a reluctance to do so. The state of technology requires some technical competence to set up the equipment in order to achieve usable quality of captured audio and video, which is not present with, or not the point of interest of an average lecturer. Automated lecture captures aim to reduce both human related obstacles. Technology for automated capturing of lectures is not yet standardized and mature, but experimental setups prove its feasibility. One such pilot project has been implemented at the University of Zagreb in the academic year of 2015/2016. The Automated Lecture Capture and Publication System has been designed, implemented, tested and installed in one lecture hall. The implemented system requires absolutely no intervention from the lecturer to capture a lecture. More than 100 lectures, delivered by 11 lecturers in 13 courses have been captured. An on-line survey has been conducted among the lecturers at the end of the semester investigating their attitudes towards lecture captures, expectations, fears and experiences. The results of the survey can be used for designing and deploying similar systems in the future.

lecture capture; automated lecture capture; lecture recording; lecturers attitude

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