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Using video in education

Video is a great tool for education. Currently with our hybrid education ‘model’ video is becoming an ever more important part of your education.

Recorded videos (such as to be found on YouTube or screencasts recorded by yourself) can be used in a flipped classroom scenario. You can also record your own video, such as a short introduction lecture for your course. This can be done in our dedicated recording studios, but you could also create videos from your home. Furthermore you could use an earlier recording of last-years lecture that was made by using Presentations2Go (P2Go), to use in your current course.

There are a number of technical facilities on campus to facilitate online and hybrid education. You can pre-record a lecture in a lecture room, stream a lecture live or teach a hybrid class. Various video facilities are available in both large and small lecture rooms.


Which tools to use in which scenario?

There are four typical scenarios that you could encounter in your course or class, which can all be catered for with the proper use of the current facilities. Every scenario would need slightly different decisions and approaches from your side. It is important to think carefully prior to the lecture about which scenario best fits your situation..

1. You teach a (smaller) course where some of your students are in your physical classroom, while some of your students are not (hybrid classroom).

Use Poly Studio in conjunction with Bb Collaborate. This will provide you with the richest possibilities for active learning that are available in Bb Collaborate. Of course this will only work well if your student group is not too big.

Second best would be to use your own laptop or your university workspace equipped with a webcam and microphone along with Bb Collaborate. Be aware that you then are confined in your actions to move around your physical classroom.

Alternatively you could use P2Go. But this lacks interactive features and there is a delay in your transmission. So this would then be more a one way transmission of your lecture, also called live streaming. This is the best fit for larger lectures.

In any case, consider recording your session. This will enable every student to learn and study at home.

2 All your students are online.

You could use your own laptop or your university workspace equipped with a webcam and microphone along with Bb Collaborate.

If you don't have good facilities on your laptop or university workspace, you could use Poly Studio in conjunction with Bb Collaborate if your class has been scheduled in a room with this technology. This will provide you with the richest possibilities for active learning that are available in Bb Collaborate.

3. You teach a large course with limited interaction, where it is physically not possible that every student can be present and sit in the same lecture hall that you were scheduled in.

Use a lecture room equipped with Presentations2Go (P2Go). Your lecture will be livestreamed to the students homes. If your lecture is scheduled in a room with the P2Go facility, you can make a livestream for your students available in Nestor. Afterwards you can even publish the recording of the lecture in the Nestor Course.

The downside of P2Go is that it lacks interactive features and there is a delay in your transmission. So using this facility, your lecture would be more a one way transmission. You cannot use P2Go along with Bb Collaborate. However, you and your slides are both visible at the same time to your students.

4. Some of your students are in a completely different timezone, and cannot attend your live lecture at all.

The best is to pre-record your lecture. You could use your own laptop or university workspace equipped with a webcam and microphone.

If you want to use the professional camera and microphone of the Poly Studio, you could use a lecture room at the UG to pre-record your lecture. Deliver that recording through Nestor to all your students beforehand. And then deliver a short live lecture, that is similar to what you had recorded, to those students that are physically present.

More information about the best solution for hybrid education using the Poly Studio can be found on the page about the Poly Studio Video Bar.

Information about Presentations2Go (P2Go) will be added to this page soon. If you already have questions about this specific tool, please contact Nestorsupport.

Last modified:07 January 2021 4.55 p.m.