Keynote presentations
- Carol Skyring
- Visual communication: from Zoopraxiscope to YouTube
- Obadiah Greenberg
- Broadcast your university: YouTube and the global classroom
- Jon Baggaley, Claus Knudsen
- The video-conferencing haves and have-nots: an online conversation between Professor Jon Baggaley and Dr. Claus Knudsen
Masterclasses
Pedagogy and assessment
- PA1: Geraldine Jones, Gabriele Edwards
- Student digital media productions, take 2: assessment choice
- PA2: Carla Cornelissen, Ruth Romijn
- The use of video in an interactive learning environment
- PA3: Jeroen Bottema, Tom Visscher
- Video reflection in digital portfolios
- PA4: Hans Bronkhorst
- Training distance learning tools at a distance
- PA5: Yvonne Crotty
- The importance of assessment for learning when creatively using digital technology and web 2.0 technologies in a research based masters programme
- PA6: Eduardo Perez
- The pedagogical role of asynchronous communication in face-to-face and distance education: a comparative study
- PA7: Palle Qvist
- Video exams and the external examiners: results from a questionnaire
- PA8: Alena Hradilova, Libor Stepanek
- The use of videoconference recordings database in academic writing classes
- PA9: Maria Hadjipavlou, Chris Comber
- Video conferencing in initial teacher training: does it make any difference in the construction of student teachers’ pedagogical knowledge?
- PA10: Clive Holtham
- Achieving the potential of web-conferencing: lessons from media synchronicity theory
- PA11: Koos Winnips, Gert-Jan Verheij
- Didactic models for the use of videolectures
- PA12: Roy Williams, Regina Karousou, Simone Gumtau,
- Beyond text: interactive and collaborative reflective practice
- PA13: Mark Hoeksma, Ries Sieswerda
- Learning from practice to improve practice in various African cultures
- PA14: Tricia Thorpe, Jane Williams
- How should we create video resources to enhance teaching and learning
- PA15: Bruce Nightingale
- Much Ado About iPods: digital literacy and teaching Shakespeare
Tools and content oriented applications
Projects and cases: implementation and sustainability
People and technology: societal aspects
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TC2: Schedule
SURFmedia & SURFmedia Core: platform, architecture and features
- Frans Ward, Ivo Reints: SURFnet, Netherlands
Watch this presentation: link to Echo360 capture
SURFnet is the Dutch National Research and Education Network (NREN) provider and offers one of the world’s fastest and most advanced networks to higher education and research institutions in the Netherlands.
It is SURFnet’s mission to facilitate groundbreaking education and research through innovative network services, which comprise five focus areas: Network infrastructure, Security, Authentication & authorization, Group communication and Multimedia distribution.
SURFnet’s third generation of Multimedia distribution services include both an end user platform; SURFmedia and a video back end platform, based on a Service Oriented Architecture: SURFmedia Core.
SURFmedia is a full-featured video platform for students, teachers and educational institutions to use in everyday educational environments and offers the following features:
- Federated Authentication, SURFnet guest identity provider
- 1 GB free storage
- Advanced Authorization (domain and user based)
- Tagging, reviewing, rating of content
- Screenshots & preview videos
- Windows Media, MP4 (H.264) & Flash streaming
- Streaming & download (+RSS = Podcast)
- Integration on-demand & live services
SURFmedia Core is a Middleware Media Distribution Platform, which allows institutions to connect to with their own applications.
SURFmedia Core facilitates access to, and usage of (shared) storage capacity, metadata databases, transcoding- and streaming servers and offers functionality for searching, playing, uploading, transcoding, as well as a fine granularity media access control system towards its users.
In this presentation we will present an overview of the architecture, features and experiences with this new video platform. |
