Title: Towards automated lecture capture, navigation and delivery system for web lecture on demand

Authors: Rajkumar Kannan, Frederic Andres

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli 620 017, India. ' Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract: Institutions all over the world are continuously exploring ways to use ICT in improving teaching and learning effectiveness. The use of course web pages, discussion groups, bulletin boards and e-mails has shown considerable impact on teaching and learning in significant ways, across all disciplines. E-learning has emerged as an alternative to traditional classroom-based education and training and web lectures can be a powerful addition to traditional lectures. They can even serve as a main content source for learning, provided users can quickly navigate and locate relevant pages in a web lecture. A web lecture consists of video and audio of the presenter and slides complemented with screen capturing. In this paper, an automated approach for recording live lectures and for browsing available web lectures for on demand applications by end users is presented.

Keywords: lecture recording; web lectures; multimedia navigation; Flex2; automated lecture capture; delivery systems; on demand applications; ICT; information technology; communications technology; teaching effectiveness; web pages; world wide web; internet; discussion groups; bulletin boards; e-mail; electronic mail; e-learning; electronic learning; online learning; classroom-based education; traditional lectures; content sources; presenter videos; audio; slides; screen captures; live lectures; web browsing; end users; student support; innovation; interactive media.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIE.2010.036860

International Journal of Innovation in Education, 2010 Vol.1 No.2, pp.204 - 212

Published online: 12 Nov 2010 *

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