... the comments made and how accurately they recall the important details from the video lectures is not known. The average number of comments made weekly by each group was also low. Practical implications Designers and teachers using online collaborative activities could benefit by understanding the nature...

...Dr Markus Ketterl; Dr Christopher Brooks; Mr Florian Schimanke; Rüdiger Rolf; Hannah Reuter; Martin Abel; Kai-Christoph Hamborg Purpose – Improving the use of annotations in lecture recordings. Design/methodology/approach – Requirements analysis with scenario based design (SBD) on focus...

..., and at promoting an active participation of students in the lecture. In learning settings with a large and typically passive audience, the goal of Backstage is to foster active participation and facilitate collaboration akin to small‐learning groups. Design/methodology/approach The authors present the concept...

... history of past users. Earlier papers have shown that social navigation is suitable for navigation not only in classic hypermedia but also in time‐based learning media like web lectures by presenting prototype implementations. The purpose of this paper is to report on user experiences with social...

... institutions to better manage and exploit the full richness of educational video. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Recording and distributing lectures stands at the center of Matterhorn's functional requirements. However, discussions within the Opencast Community have led to an extension...

...O. Brdiczka; L. Knipping; N. Ludwig; R. Mertens; Yu‐Tzu Lin; Bai‐Jang Yen; Chia‐Hu Chang; Greg C. Lee; Yu‐Chih Lin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose an indexing and teaching focus mining system for lecture videos recorded in an unconstrained environment. Design/methodology...

...Oliver Brdiczka; Lars Knipping; Nadine Ludwig; Markus Ketterl; Robert Mertens; Oliver Vornberger Purpose At many universities, web lectures have become an integral part of the e‐learning portfolio over the last few years. While many aspects of the technology involved, like automatic recording...

...Oliver Brdiczka; Lars Knipping; Nadine Ludwig; Wolfgang Hürst; Martina Welte Purpose Playing back recorded lectures on handheld devices offers interesting perspectives for learning, but suffers from small screen sizes. The purpose of this paper is to propose several semi‐automatic post‐processing...

...Oliver Brdiczka; Lars Knipping; Nadine Ludwig; Fleming Lampi; Hendrik Lemelson; Stephan Kopf; Wolfgang Effelsberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is describing the seamless integration of the question‐answer interaction into automatic lecture recordings (ALRs). This includes the design...

... how they are performing in class. The implications of this study and recommendations for future research are discussed. Originality/value This paper is valuable to instructors who wish to reemploy active learning or Socratic Method type activities in the large lecture format classes. Gregor...

...Markus Ketterl; Robert Mertens; Oliver Vornberger Purpose The purpose of this paper is to is to describe vector graphics for web lectures, focusing on the experiences with Adobe Flash 9 and SVG. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents experiences made during the development and everyday...