JISC

Start date: 1 August 2000

End date: 31 July 2002

Funding programme: Learning and Teaching (5/99) programme

Project website: http://clickandgovideo.ac.uk/

This project is part of the moving image and sound project cluster in this particular programme. The main focus for projects in this cluster is on the creation and use of moving images and collections for the DNER and learning and teaching.

Background

A number of recent publications, in particular the 1999 Report on the BFI/BUFVC/JISC Imagination/Universities Pilot for online delivery of moving images, have highlighted the continuing challenges for educators who wish to use digital video and audio with their students. For archive and broadcast resources, IPR, copyright and metadata clearly remain core problem areas, but are essentially resolvable at a national level. This project concerns itself with local issues such as the technological, infrastructural and pedagogical barriers the project team believes are inhibiting the use of moving image archives from the DNER and elsewhere.

Aims and Objectives

Click and Go Video aims to provide a user orientated resource for the academic community that will stimulate and enhance the use of moving image archives for mainstream learning and teaching. It will investigate and report on best practice in developing a video enriched learning environment through the integration of archived moving images, locally produced video, Web resources and asynchronous and synchronous communications tools. The principal objectives of the project are to:

• Develop an adaptive Web-based media framework that permits easy integration of media streaming and desktop videoconferencing technologies with access to moving image resources for use in real time (lecture based) and collaborative (tutorial and distance based) learning
• Establish an intuitive approach for media capture and integration that can be scaled up for delivery of greater quantities of material and wider use across the academic community
• Validate the implementation benefits of the methodology by case study within three distinctly different departments using both local and DNER video resources
• Evaluate the educational benefits for remote learners, both off and on campus, where collaborative working is combined with shared viewing of moving image resources delivered over a network

Project design

Click and Go Video will use a series of three interlinked but distinct case studies to qualitatively examine, in more detail, the local technological, infrastructural and pedagogical barriers perceived and evolve practical and resource efficient strategies for overcoming them with a range of technologies. The case studies have been chosen to represent contrasting departments and educational contexts in the partner institutions (UMIST: The Department of Textiles – teaching of fashion marketing; University of Manchester: Manchester Royal Infirmary – teaching of surgeons; MMU: The Department of Hospitality and Tourism – teaching of catering). All the departments will be involved in video streaming of study activities and the integration of archived video material using the Web-based framework. Each will use the framework in different ways with video playing quite distinct roles in each.

Outcomes

The main outcome of Click and Go Video will be a fully tested generic framework for multimedia integration, comprising a description, toolset based on third party (free) applications and support material. Support materials, including examples and demonstrations developed using the framework and step by step ‘how to’ guides for academic and support staff, will be produced. Dissemination will be achieved by at least two workshops being held throughout the project using case studies to describe practical implementation of the technology from an infrastructure and pedagogical perspective. To disseminate the findings further, a user orientated Web site providing ‘one stop shop’ information and discussion areas will be provided as well as a guide to best practice for these approaches.