EduStream Content on Demand: Creating Media-Rich Learning Environments

ITC, eLearning 2/22/10
Glen Kuck, Executive Director, and Osman Parada, Senior
Technical Support Specialist, San Bernardino Community
College District
http://www.valleycollege.edu/

EduStream.org helps colleges deliver media-rich videos and learning objects to engage students and enrich and enlighten their learning experience. EduStream offers a searchable database of more than 3,000 ADA-compliant educational videos and interactive Flash activities. All of the proprietary content is captioned. The system is compatible with any course learning management system and the content integrates seamlessly into any class – face-to-face, hybrid, or online. Instructors can add their own digital files — MP3, PowerPoint, PDF, and
videos — into the repository to share with students and other faculty within their respective institutions. Faculty and staff can also create an unlimited number of custom playlists to which they can add proprietary, or their own
self-made, content.

Why EduStream? Telecourses were in vogue, but their academic rigor was in question. Online courses were few and their were growing group advocates for online learning.

Issues/Concerns:
- preserving access to content
- academic rigor
- streaming business process and ensuring stability
- Cost to students
- Bridging gaps in success and retention rates
- Ensuring ADA compliance

Proposed Solutions:
- Encode content and make it available VOD
- More interaction via LMS, Social Network, other?
- Single Location resources/services
- No cost to students
- Increased availability of student support services
- Review by AFB
- DSPS, WIB, Sporting Events, Marketing, etc
- Provide DRM to video content

Solution: EduStream
- Flexibility – a tool to address multiple needs
- Cost Effectiveness – ability to serve 110 colleges
- Institutional/Faculty/Student Collaboration
- Encouraging Innovation

Key Features:
- Quality content: 3000 clips of learning objects (partered with Dallas Telelearning)
- ADA compliant – captioning provided
- 24/7 streaming and VOD
- Faculty /Institution content hosting (captioning)
- Ability to upload multiple media file formats and captions
- Flexible delivery (agnostic to CMS)
- Report functionality
- Help Desk

Version 2 Release Features (May 2010):
- Push content to Social Networking Sites
- Bookmarking of videos
- Full text transcript search
- Customizable playlists and video clips
- Customizable interface
- Converting WMV delivery format to FLV or MP4 with integrated player

Partnerships:
- Dallas TeleLearning
- Coastal Learning Systems (coming soon)
- California Comm Colleges Chancellor’s Office

Ability to create playlists using video from the EduStream repository combined with faculty created video.

SBCC is working with Cal State to create a searchable content metadata database.

There is a significant savings to SBCC to leverage the hosting & archiving of media. This includes data redundancy and disater recovery
Links:
http://edustream.org - EduStream
http://kccd.edu – KCCD Live Board Meetings

Terms:
Audio Scribed – adding captions to audio files