Dr Melissa Highton – 2 May 2018

A talk at LCS2018 (search for this tag in the blog).

Speaking from a dual role as Edinburgh University’s Director of IT and Vice-Principal of Online Learning,  Melissa discussed how Edinburgh is moving towards an ‘opt-out’ policy for LC. Opt-out means that by default, all lectures at the institution will automatically be recorded unless a special case is put forward which provides for an exception.

Edinburgh have been rolling out facilities for LC, with 100 teaching rooms fully ready, 200 more coming online this summer and the final 100 coming next year. This roll-out had been planned and announced but was reported in the student newspaper under the headline “All Edinburgh lectures to be captured from 2017.” The mis-understanding caused some complaints from students whose lectures were not yet being captured. This highlights a theme across the talks: students will increasingly come to expect lectures to be captured and may come to feel poorly served by institutions or individual departments which do not provide LC.