Beyond Lecture Capture: 3 Creative Uses for Video Technology in Higher Education

By on December 15, 2017
video technology in higher education

Many universities use a video platform to only record and share lecture videos, but access to a more comprehensive video platform provides additional opportunities for students and other university stakeholders like staff and students’ families to engage with video. Beyond capturing and sharing lecture videos, your university can pre-record and broadcast or live stream various materials and events including:

Supplemental course materials and video assignments

Encourage your instructors to take advantage of your university’s video platform by recording and posting additional seminars and review sessions online for students. These materials may not be necessarily required for the course, but they can help students grasp the course material and further prepare for exams and class discussions.

More and more, instructors are introducing video assignments as a way to challenge their students to think outside of the box of more traditional essays and exams. As modern communication increasingly becomes more visual and video-centric, video assignments help students strengthen those skills and explore new ways of showing they understand course content.

To facilitate successful video assignments, ensure your students have a simple way to submit them, like a Video Dropbox.

Guest speakers, sports and other special events

Students who are studying abroad, are unable to attend events for health reasons or are studying off campus should still have every opportunity to get the most out of their college experience. Guest lecturers, special speakers, assemblies, pep rallies and other special events are even more impactful when they’re accessible to all students, both on and off campus.

If your university does not already broadcast sporting events on television, you can live stream football, basketball, volleyball or any other sporting event that fans would like to view.

Use a video platform that live streams video through an HTML5 player to ensure the stream is compatible with a wide variety of devices and browsers. This will guarantee the largest possible number of viewers can access a stream at once.

Graduation ceremonies

The families and friends of students who attend out-of-state or international schools will still want to witness their loved one’s graduation ceremony, but may not have the ability to physically travel to see them. In this instance, live streaming your university’s graduation ceremonies allows anyone the opportunity to take part in the experience.

You can follow our 10 tips for live streaming graduation ceremonies including testing your stream ahead of time, ensuring great audio and video quality and monitoring the stream on many devices to guarantee a successful event.

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