Case Studies
Richard Coleman from Exeter College talks through how Helix Media Library has been used to create their ever popular "Replay" system which houses the Colleges learning resources as well as TV recordings and is used extensively in teaching and learning at one of the UK's largest FE Colleges.
Paul Rolfe (Highbury College) and Tony Marder (AudioVisual Southwest) run through how Helix Media Library was used with the 157 Group of Colleges for a Shared Services Project. 11 Colleges were involved in integrating Helix Media Library with Camtasia Relay as well as the Onelan Omniserver TV Recording System
The Helix Media Library has provided an easy way for staff to get content to their intended audience. A Media Library of thousands of clips submitted by hundreds of users is testament to the success of the Helix Media Library
"The Helix Media Library has proven a valuable tool allowing us to provide standardized information and training in the means of instructional video guides, available at the user’s disposal, at their convenience and preferred format"
Marilena Aspioti, Senior Learning Technologist, University of Manchester
“We're a vocational college, so we do a lot of courses that involve sort of hands-on work. So the options of actually taking students and using basically the Camtasia Relay to use an app from iOS and Android devices allows students to capture content, staff to capture content directly when they're in, for example, a hair salon or in a kitchen where they're actually making something and the content can be directly uploaded. I think there's a lot of benefit for user-captured content. I think that's going to be really useful."
Dominic Gore, Senior E-Learning Officer, University College, Birmingham
“It means that we can concentrate more on producing the content without having to spend more time on the encoding because that's all automated now. It looks a lot better. It's got a lovely interface. It's got great search feature. So for us it's been a fantastic edition. We've now got a nice pool of academics within all the faculties across the university who are really keen now to sort of get engaged. To go out there, start recording their own content, their own lectures. And because you've got the nice widget-driven uploading opportunity now it makes it much easier for them. The next step for us at Kingston would be to look at the Building Block -- the Blackboard Building Block. Blackboard being what was in the VLE that we currently use. And then ongoing from that we will be certainly looking at the Camtasia Relay option; lecture capture. That's going to be huge."
Andy Belsham, Team Leader Web & Multimedia, Kingston University, London
“Helix Media Library has injected the simplification into media streaming that was so badly needed by our end users. Now an academic can upload their media file (almost regardless of format and codec) and be e-mailed with the video embed code so they can insert directly into the VLE, and other more traditional web pages"
Peter King, Head of College IT, Harlow College
Nuala Davis goes through the history of a streaming service at the University and why Newcastle University chose Helix Media Library. Detail on how the software is used today and a vision of future use
