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While ChatGPT has caused upheaval from K-12, Universities, and Professional schools: OpenAI’s large-language-model driven Whisper speech-to-text engine is a remarkable piece of software with tremendous potential to benefit the University. Come see how we’re putting it to work at CITL!
The Instructional Media Resources department at the Center For Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) is a high-throughput media production center for education-related and campus event materials. In order to manage the ingest, editing, transcoding and discovery of these materials, CITL is developing a suite of tools we call the Curricular Asset Warehouse (CAW). CAW […]
Two critically important interoperability standards for Ed Tech are LTI and Caliper. LTI is a standard that since 2012 has allowed 3rd party applications to integrate with Learning Management Systems to share identity information and grade book access. Caliper is a learning activity reporting standard that allows the aggregation of activities across applications used in […]
Try your hand at the second generation of Lightboard technology at Illinois. Lightboards are edge-lit sheets of glass used as a visual aid for instructional video production. The teacher writes on it,chalkboard-style, with flourescent markers to vibrantly write and draw in midair. Either with mirrors or simple software, the video flips the video horizontally so […]
The challenges of video archiving inescapably entered the realm of IT problems once cameras stopped recording to tape or film and instead began writing to filesystems. These challenges are non-trivial: the storage needs for video data are significant and the data does not self-index: descriptive metadata needs to be generated by the camera operators and […]
Modern web browsers are powerful pieces of software: websockets, webRTC, new HTML5 capabilities are largely going under-exploited. Combined with a client-side web application framework, there’s potential for delivering highly interactive web experiences supported by minimalist backends. Let’s demonstrate some new browser capabilities while exploring the advantages of moving work from server to client.
Let’s imagine the world of the near future where video accessibility is taken for granted and where the metadata required to accommodate users with sensory impairments is exploited to benefit non-target populations; then work backwards to where we are today, building that future.