I (heart) Matterhorn
ADAM HOCHMAN, UC BERKELEY: I think the
engage tools, the tools that really allow
you to interact and embrace the media is in
my mind what matters most, because that's
when the learner starts taking ownership of
the material that's being presented to them
ALLISON BLOODWORTH, UC BERKELEY: Seeing
how learners can use media in different and
new ways, remixing media, annotating media,
doing collaborative editing, perhaps sharing
the media with each other in new and exciting
ways is also really - it's kind of what Matterhorn
is all about, making it better for learners
JUDY STERN, UC BERKELEY: That's when the
use of webcasts and podcasts move beyond a
passive couch potato experience into something
that's a real learning tool where students
are interacting with the media and making
it meaningful to them
MARKUS KETTERL, UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRUECK:
We can do much more with all this data we
have that can be recorded out of the lecture
hall. We have slides, we have slide changes,
we have students that interrupt during the
lecture, asking questions and getting answers.
This is valuable information that needs to
be somewhere in user interfaces so later on,
people can really work with the content and
it's not just a copy out of the lecture hall.
It should be a real experience of what's happening
in the lecture hall. This is one of the major
differences between, let's say, just a video
on YouTube and the engage application.
OLAF SCHULTE, ETH ZURICH: We will have
a system that will navigate you to a point
in time in the video. If we detected a certain
word on the slide, then you can search for
that specific word, and jump into the video
right at the point where this word was on
the slide.
ALLISON: Thinking through what an administrator
might need, the different functionality and
pages, the different ways of organizing that
information - that's fairly natural to me,
so I love working on the administrative application.
OLAF: I really hope for a very comfortable
and reliable scheduling system, because I
think that's what administrators find helpful,
that towards the start of the semester they
don't have all this work of scheduling each
class individually. But rather it should be
integrated with other campus information systems.
So no scheduling or only a little scheduling
is needed at the start of the semester
CHRISTOPHER BROOKS, UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN:
At the University of Saskatchewan we've got
a number of classrooms that aren't your typical
room, they don't have just one VGA or one
camera. We have audience cameras sometimes,
we have motion tracking cameras sometimes,
and sometimes we have multiple VGA screens.
Finding a lecture capture system that works
for this is really difficult, especially with
the commercial systems out there that aren't
as flexible as soemthing like Matterhorn is.
TOBIAS WUNDEN, ETH ZURICH: The one feature
that will blow people away once Matterhorn
is out will be the media analyis. I'm very
sure that Matterhorn will be far ahead of
any competitors that we might be having. The
media analysis is actually the future of lecture
recording. This is what you get out of the
whole thing once you get it automated and
scaled.
JOSH HOLTZMAN, UC BERKELEY: One of the
things I'm really excited about Matterhorn
is how modular the system is. So you can take
pieces of it, integrate with an existing lecture
capture system. You can take the entire thing
and run it as a standalone, top to bottom,
soup to nuts lecture capture system. You can
use it only if you need an encoding engine,
you can use it for that. So that, I think
that's a really powerful piece of the software.