Faculty Spotlight – Hasan Coskun

Dr. Hasan Coskun, Mathematics Using Adobe Connect to Record Lectures My main objective in distance education classes as far as content delivery is considered has been to closely simulate traditional lecture style while I integrate computer mathematics software into classroom instruction. I make use of mathematics and statistics software such as Mathematica, MATLAB, Geometer’s Sketchpad …

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Faculty Spotlight – Sherri Colby

Dr. Sherri Colby, Curriculum & Instruction Instructor Authored Films and Active Learning For my web enhanced courses, I create films on course material using my own digital photography.  My films integrate the famous “Ken Burns approach” for documentary film making. In his historical documentaries, Ken Burns created interest through zooming, panning, and scanning still images …

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Alternative capture agent hardware

When researching audio and video equipment for a capture agent, it didn’t take long for someone to ask “Isn’t there a better way than that?” A lot of auxiliary equipment is needed just to get typical audio and video devices to work with a computer. For example a video capture card is needed to interface …

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Faculty Spotlight – Rusty Waller

Dr. Rusty Waller, Educational Leadership Using YouTube in Online Courses To facilitate student mastery of the content, the course is divided into 10 modules ranging from introductory material to the chi-squared distribution. In the last month, short lectures (4-10 minutes) for each of the first five modules have been uploaded to YouTube for broader dissemination …

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The “budget” Matterhorn server: Zoidberg

Opencast Matterhorn uses a server or cluster of servers for media transcoding, storage, and distribution. For the internal pilot of Matterhorn we’ve decided to go with a single server instead of multiple servers in a cluster. The advantage of using a cluster is scalability to accommodate more media and viewers in the future. The advantage of a single server …

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