Lecture Capture: Student Perceptions, Expectations, and Behaviors

The decrease in cost and increase in automation of audio visual systems for the classroom has led to widespread deployment of lecture capture within higher education. While a number of studies have examined the effectiveness of such systems within an institution, no study has characterized student background across institutions. In this paper we describe three different lecture capture systems deployed in three different higher education institutions worldwide. We note particular interesting investigations we have made into how students use these systems, and outline how our current work in the opencast community project will be used to provide more rigorous cross-institution analysis options of lecture capture systems.