The University has offered lecture recording on an opt-in basis for around ten years and recently made significant investment to provide a new central lecture recording service, Media Hopper Replay, in September 2017. The new service is running successfully so far with a good many colleagues using it to deliver recordings of their lectures for their students to review.
Beginning the second semester of our new service we have more than 60,000 recordings made to the end of December. It is very popular with students with around 190,000 student views. December was the top month for replaying content – over 70,000 hours.
We are consulting, on behalf of Senate Learning and Teaching Committee, on a proposed new lecture recording policy to support us in consistently delivering the benefits of the service both to students and to staff. . Please submit your responses or questions by 19 February 2018.
The new policy seeks to maximise the number of lectures recorded, and hence the consistency of the student experience, while retaining appropriate scope for a lecturer to opt out of recording a lecture where the interests in not recording outweigh the interests in recording. It is intended that the lecture recording policy will provide the necessary clarity and reassurance to lecturers and students on data use, data security and data protection; intellectual property rights within the recordings; avoidance of copyright infringement; and equality of access to lectures and recordings.
Assuming the new policy comes into force in Summer 2018, it will dovetail with an integration of the lecture recording service and the timetabling system and with an expansion of the service to cover nearly 300 rooms. Indeed, given the ongoing expansion of the service, the availability of comprehensive training, and continued demand from students, I would encourage colleagues in all Schools to consider initiating or expanding their use of the service this semester.
For the text of the proposed policy and full supporting information, please review the consultation website that is now available to all staff and students. (EASE authentication required.) While the consultation encourages colleagues and students to contribute to aggregate responses, it also leaves open the option for them to respond individually.
In addition to responses from Heads of Schools, Colleges and Support Groups, we are also seeking the views of the trade unions, of students via the Students’ Association and of conveners of the Knowledge Strategy Committee, Library Committee, the Directors of Teaching network, the Lecture Recording Programme Board, Academic User Group and Engagement and Evaluation Group.
We’d like to hear from you.
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