A talk at LCS2018 (search for this tag in the blog).<\/p>\n
Speaking from a dual role as Edinburgh University’s Director of IT and<\/em> Vice-Principal of Online Learning, \u00a0Melissa discussed how Edinburgh is moving towards an ‘opt-out’ policy for LC. Opt-out means that by default, all<\/em> lectures at the institution will automatically be recorded unless a special case is put forward which provides for an exception.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0This 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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, \u00a0Melissa discussed how Edinburgh is moving towards an ‘opt-out’ policy for LC. Opt-out means that by default, all lectures at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-lcs2018"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/sums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}