reaching out with podcasts

Reaching Out With Podcasts &

Alternative Methods

George Wright

“Podcasting offers to extend universities’ educational reach more than it offers to improve

education itself...”

David J. Malan

Malan DJ (2007) “Podcasting computer scienceE-1.” In Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE Technical

Symposium on Computer Science Education, 389-393.http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1227446

About GT Distance Learning

• 30 years DL experience

• 120+/- DL courses per semester/ 275 per year

• 14 multi-media classrooms

• 5,500 – 5,750 hours of captured instruction per semester

• 1,800+ enrollments

• International student body

GT ‘Wish List’The requirements are intended to describe the features and functionality of a suite of tools that

make up a large scale content capture, management and delivery system for Georgia

Tech. It is understood that a single tool may not

encompass all of the requirements listed, such systems under consideration must have an open

architecture such that the system may either integrate laterally with other systems.

We are looking for a few good classroom instruction capture tools.

Criteria– Highly scalable – low cost– Simple to use– Synchronous & asynchronous capture– Content downloadable for offline playback– Integrate with Campus AD/LDAP – CMS Integration (single sign on)

More Criteria

– Ability to upload with little intervention after the capture

– High-definition capture for future requirements– Variable bitrate options for student access -

dialup/DSL/LAN(10/100/1000)– Editing tools – simple to use please!– Support of Digital Rights Management– Windows, Macintosh, and Linux Support

Some Systems Reviewed

• Accordant• Adobe Acrobat

Connect• Adobe Captivate• Anystream Agility• Apreso – echo360

• Camtasia• Codian (Tandberg)

• DCRS – GT• Elluminate• Horizon-Wimba• Mediasite• Sympodium• Tandberg Content

Server• Tegrity

George Wright

Phone: 404.894.6921

E-mail: george.wright@dlpe.gatech.edu