{"id":395,"date":"2015-05-11T14:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2015-05-11T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T02:17:04","slug":"264-students-8-courses-792-hi-def-video-streams-no-walls-theta2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/264-students-8-courses-792-hi-def-video-streams-no-walls-theta2015\/","title":{"rendered":"264 students, 8 courses, 792 hi-def video streams, no walls #theta2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>264 students, eight courses, 792 High Definition video streams, no walls<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/theta.edu.au\/program\/presentations-2015\/264-students-eight-courses-792-high-definition-video-streams-no-walls\/\">abstract<\/a>)<br \/>\nJim Cook and Warren French<\/p>\n<p>New Charles Perkins Centre at University of Sydney &#8211; opened in 2014, multi-faculty research and learning hub focused on obesity, diabetes and cardio-vascular disease. Includes IT, engineering, maths as well as medicine, public health and vet science.<\/p>\n<p>The X-lab is a wet (ie hands-on) teaching lab with 264 seats &#8211; about the size of a football field. Wanted to maximise space utilisation. &#8216;X&#8217; represents cross-faculty teaching paradigm. A way of teachers learning from each other. Needed completely innovative approach to enable up to 8 classes to operate in same space without disturbing each other. &#8220;No walls&#8221; reflects this and collaborative process between ICT and teaching academics.<\/p>\n<p>Teaching stations around the edge: based on standard touchscreen AV-control system so teachers would be familiar with the idea. Just added features. Select what lab benches (anywhere in room) will be teaching to, for routing of video\/audio. Select video source for student screen display (PC, laptop, facecam, camera for objects\/notes, or microscope). Integrated highly-directional speaker technology &#8211; so only students at appropriate bench will hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Directional speakers mean &#8220;We used to shout at students now we talk to students&#8221; (quote from lecturer). Minimises impact of classes being taught next to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Has been a supreme success. Lecturers have found &#8220;instructions provided in live or video format were easier to follow and facilitated engagement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worked well: stakeholder engagement and inclusivity; leveraging TechLab; leverage existing AV standards so easy for lecturers; dedicated relationship manager and program manager team<\/li>\n<li>Power of prototype: thought they were just shaking out the bugs, but even better achieved joint ownership between academics and ICT so they became the ones to sell it &#8211; word of mouth<\/li>\n<li>Would do stress testing to avoid first day anxiety<\/li>\n<li>Would put more focus on support funding in business-as-usual. Had to use project funds to pay for support staff, took much haggling to get a sustainable support model.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>264 students, eight courses, 792 High Definition video streams, no walls (abstract) Jim Cook and Warren French New Charles Perkins Centre at University of Sydney &#8211; opened in 2014, multi-faculty research and learning hub focused on obesity, diabetes and cardio-vascular disease. Includes IT, engineering, maths as well as medicine, public health and vet science. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[249,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}