My presentation from the ALT Conference 2016 at the University of Warwick

1. Making movies: Democratising the use of
media in learning and teaching
Anne-Marie Scott
Head of Digital Learning Applications and Media

2. IP video traffic will be 82 percent of all Internet traffic by 2020,
100 million hours of video watched daily on Facebook
Almost 5 billion videos watched on YouTube every day
300 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
More than half of YouTube views come from mobile devices.

3. Chris Allen [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

4. User engagement
Staff
Easily control access to
media
Support a range of tools for
content creation and editing
Easy to edit, 'mash-up' and
reuse content
Licensing advice
Students
Search for video and audio
content from the entire
University in one place
Lecture capture!
Easily control access to
media

6. Perhaps the most important issue is the extent to which you
have control over what you do. There is a creative spark in
each of us, and if it finds no outlet, we feel half-dead.
(Richard Layard, Happiness)
Flash of Happiness © Electron cc-by-sa-2.0

9. Since January 2016
Peer review of research proposals in Moodle
Group presentations on new technology in Learn
Our Deputy Secretary went viral
5560 videos uploaded
754 using a Creative Commons license
283 days of video content watched

10. “People often spend time creating things because they want
to feel alive in the world, as participants rather than viewers,
and to be active and recognised within a community of
interesting people”
(David Gauntlett, Making is Connecting)

15. Questions
anne-marie.scott@ed.ac.uk
https://media.is.ed.ac.uk
Why Media Hopper? http://bit.ly/2c3jldZ