ANU Digital Lecture Delivery Project

McComas Taylor in the Baume Theatre

The Digital Lecture Delivery (DLD) project will provide a robust mechanism for lectures to be recorded from all sixty lecture venues at ANU. Linking in with the campus course information, the recording operation will be under the control of the lecturer using software on the lecture venue PC.

The lecturer has flexibility in what is recorded from the presentation. The audio and video from their computer presentation, a theatre video camera, the DVD player, the document camera and even participants in a videoconference can be included in the recording. While we're preparing for the future immersive lecture environment, we'll will be starting with what most lecturers need today - a simple, reliable way of recording of slides and audio, with delivery to students via our learning management system.

The recordings will be distributed as "podcasts", suitable for consumption in a wide range of scenarios. The processing of the media will prepare it for delivery on many devices including MP3 players, portable video players, mobile phones and desktop computers. The recordings are presented with ANU livery, copyright notices and course metadata. Lecturers can choose to review their recordings before they're published in the learning management system.

The DLD project contains software development and systems integration tasks to build a long-term mechanism for ANU to manage its lecture venues and preserve the presentations that are conducted in them. It aims to give lecturers control over how their presentations are recorded and distributed, and aims to give audio-visual support staff the tools they need to manage venues and recordings.