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We were excited today to see that NUI Galway features in the April edition of Tech & Learning UK (pages 27 and 28). Based on the talk I gave at the Kaltura Education Summit last year, the article describes our deployment and use of the Kaltura building block in our Blackboard VLE, and how staff and students are making good use of video for learning. Thanks to Lisa Bennett of Kaltura Marketing for putting the article together. Tweet

This article first appeared in the December issue of the Media and Learning Newsletter , published by the Media and Learning Association. Sign up for regular issues online. The Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the National University of Ireland, Galway is a staff-facing central unit which has the broad aim to enhance the quality of teaching and learning at the University. The centre is responsible for various types of activities, grounded in the promotion of good pedagogy, including the support of learning technologies and media production. In the last 5 years, we have seen an increase in the use of video in online, blended and on-campus courses, including the flipped classroom approach. With a small complement of staff (just 4 members in the learning technologies team) to support an institution with about 17,000 students and 2,500 staff across 5 Colleges, we have to be selective in how we allocate our resources. We have a small recording studio, for video and ...

Last term we spoke with Mary Barrett, at NUI Galway, about her involvement in a project that created short screencasts within Blackboard for students. Along with her colleagues, she was looking for something to explain the technical nature of the subject, in additional to lectures and tutorials, for students. They arrived at a solution of working through problems on screen, narrating the process, and explaining steps involved. The resulting recordings allowed students to access these clarifying steps again, and again. Each screencast became a very valuable and engaging resource for learning. Behind the scenes is a technology called Kaltura Desktop Recorder , which enables you to quickly and easily recording your screen or lecture and upload online to share privately in Blackboard, or with a wider audience on MediaSpace or other public video channels. Watch Mary's video interview here . You can see some further examples of their results on http://www.nuigalway.ie/cairnes/leavingcer...

The Kaltura Connect Education Virtual Summit took place last week. All the sessions are now available to view on demand, so it you have a little bit of time, head on over to the VOD site to watch. My own talk User Engagement and Learning Outcomes: How NUI Galway is Changing the way Students Learn Inside and Outside the Classroom is available, though I have brought myself to watch it yet. Hopefully the technical guys worked their magic and I don't look as completely nervous as I actually felt at the time. The powerpoint slides from the talk are available on Slideshare and embedded here: User Engagement and Learning Outcomes: How NUI Galway is Changing the way Students Learn Inside and Outside the Classroom from Sharon Flynn Tweet

The Kaltura Connect Education Virtual Summit will take place on 28th May this year ( you can pre-register here ) and I was absolutely delighted to be invited to give a talk, based on our experiences at NUI Galway. The talk was recorded last month in New York City, against the backdrop of Central Park. The recording "studio". Photograph taken by Anna Dutton. All sounds a bit crazy? Well, yes, it was. Especially since this has happened before . But I did get to New York last month, where I recorded my talk in front of two video cameras, to two cameramen, a sound engineer and a couple of other people. I also attended the Kaltura Education Customer Advisory Board, and caught up with new developments in video technology for education. When the invitation came in, I spent a bit of time thinking about what I could talk about. NUI Galway has been a Kaltura customer for almost 4 years, so I thought I'd take a closer look at the analytics available to us. I focused on the calendar ...

View of Empire State Building The last two weeks have been a bit surreal for me, and on Tuesday I spent a very pleasant day in Dakota Studio on 5th Avenue in New York City, recording a presentation for the Kaltura Education Video Summit . The summit will be a virtual event, taking place on 6th December, and you can register now for free. My presentation is on Supporting the use of video for teaching and learning (in the Blackboard LMS) and I am one of a long list of speakers , but the only one from outside the US, as far as I am aware. So, how did this strange situation come about? Being in New York, pre-recording a presentation for a virtual conference to take place next month? Well, just two weeks ago I got an email from Meytal Burstein, marketing manager with Kaltura , letting me know that my abstract had been accepted for the virtual Summit, and that I was invited to give a 30-35 minute presentation. I was very pleased, of course, and expected to deliver the presentation from my d...

Following on from last week's webinar, I'm very pleased to see the publication of a Blackboard/Kaltura case study on how we are using Kaltura at NUI Galway . I'd particularly like to acknowledge Oliver Ryan (Physics) and Susan Folan (Acadamh) for their contributions to the case study. Read the full case study to find out how Oliver and Susan have been using Kaltura to support their students' learning. We have also been featured recently on the Blackboard blog , in a nice write up by Katie Drossos. Tweet

I am very pleased to participate in this afternoon's webinar , hosted by Blackboard, on how we are using the Kaltura building block for video at NUI Galway. Here are the slides that I'm going to be presenting with: To find out more about Kaltura at NUI Galway, take a look at our Blackboard blog . Our guide for instructor users describing the Kaltura building block can be found on our Blackboard support site . Tweet

I'm currently engaged in testing out Kaltura , a platform for video, as part of a 3 year extended pilot at NUI Galway. It has a rather nice integration with Blackboard, which we're hoping to launch within the next few weeks. If any members of staff are using or creating their own video and are interested in being part of an initial pilot study in the next few months, please get in contact with me. For the moment, I'm testing the embed feature. So, here's a short video recorded during our guerilla video workshop with the participants in the PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. video platform video management video solutions video player