The second Boston Higher Ed Video User Group Meet Up took place at MIT just 2 days ago. With more than twice the number of participants from last meeting representing as many as 10 different states and 3 countries (!) – the group is growing in a very encouraging pace, an indicator to the great level of excitement around video in education.
Many thanks to our friends at MIT TechTV for hosting yet another great meetup.
The meetup opened with an introductions ”round-table” of all people attending on site and online, followed by a short presentation about where we see Video in Education today, where it might go in the near future and how we should challenge today’s technology, methodologies and usage to be more social, more engaging and reach better personal and global results, leaving the majority of the meeting to an insightful open discussion.
Few meeting highlights -
- What the future holds? How can we challenge the ways we use video today and what can be done better? (see the presentation below)
- Mike Williams from University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, shared their use of Google+ hangouts along with Docs for realtime collaboration. (Google+ hangouts integration seemed to be a hot topic!)
- Various video editing tools, their pro’s and con’s and integration to management platform for more streamlined publishing. Tools that were mentioned: QuickTime X, SnapZ, Screenflow, Camtasia Studio and Camtasia Relay (integrated with Kaltura).
- Video creation methodologies; What is the best length of a video to keep the audience engaged? Will adding interactive layers (chapters, annotations, temporal comments) contribute to the overall viewing experience, or will it divert attention? – Read best practices creating media from: Stanford and MIT.
- Front end video applications, “Custom YouTube”, such as Kaltura’s MediaSpace and MIT’s TechTV.
- FERPA (Use of Student Information) tips and practices.
The presentation is available here -
Boston education video meetup trends in education video
And the video recording is available here -
Join us next time (date will soon be published on the meetup site), explore the group’s wiki at http://eduvideo.wikispaces.com/ and let us know below -
How do you see the future use of video in education?
How can video be utilized for increasing engagement, participation and reaching better learning results?
How can users be encouraged to create more, while preserving content quality?
