At the 2007 Carrick Awards ceremony held at Parliament House in Canberra on 27 November, Mike Fardon and Jo Williams of the Lectopia team were presented with a
prestigious Carrick Program Award from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. This award is in recognition of Lectopia's support of
student learning across the Australian university sector, including the University of Western Australia, where the system captures more than 2,400 lectures per month.
See the official press release.
The Lectopia team received the Product Category Award at the 2006 WAITTA Dinner held in Perth on 23 March 2007. The award, recognising excellence in an IT&T product developed by
a Western Australian organisation, was received by Project Director Michael Fardon on behalf of the team. There was strong competition from a diverse field in this category,
with a total of four shortlisted products. It was Lectopia's first appearance at WAITTA, rounding out a strong University of Western Australia presence overall,
with other departments receiving nominations in numerous categories. Find out more about WAITTA.
At the 2006 ascilite conference, held in Sydney between 3-6 December, Project Director Michael Fardon was presented with an ascilite award for Lectopia. The specific citations accompanying the award were:
- appropriateness to the target audience
- appropriateness and effectiveness of design
- fit of the project to its specified goals
- creativity and innovation in its application
- overall quality
The Lectopia team is delighted to have had the system and its achievements recognised in this way. For more information about ascilite, see http://www.ascilite.org.au/.
In 2002 the University of Western Australia was the recipient of an Australian Award for University Teaching (AAUT) for its Innovative and Practical Approach to the Provision of Educational Services to the Local and/or Regional Community. The successful development and implementation of the iLecture System across UWA teaching programmes was instrumental in the University's application (entitled "Addressing Equity: Creating Opportunity") for this award. The award acknowledged the team's commitment to achieving a high-level of flexibility and innovation in its approach to the provision of teaching and learning to the community.
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"For lecturers, the unobtrusive operation of Lectopia makes it a highly appealing learning technology."
Paul Meulenberg, Assistant Director, Academic Development, Swinburne University
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"The positive user response, the cost-effectiveness of the automated Lectopia alternative, and the creation of a digital media central support unit for handling and anticipating infrastructure-related issues
ultimately tipped the scales in favor of expanding the DukeCapture operation."
Duke University—taken from the Educause Learning Initiative article "DukeCapture: Automated Classroom Lecture Recording"
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“iLecture recordings have worked extremely effectively to facilitate flexible delivery of a key element within teaching and learning at UWA. They make lectures more accessible, in a format that is high quality, and responsive to a variety of individual students' learning needs.”
Associate Professor Jane Long, UWA Dean of Undergraduate Studies—taken from "The iLecture System: An Introduction" promotional pamphlet
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“The Institute of Advanced Studies presents more than 100 public lectures and talks annually. Most of them are captured and offered using iLecture. This gives our audiences outside of Perth the opportunity to listen to stimulating talks they hear about but can't attend. The System is smooth and painless, and has the outreach arm of IAS stretch that little bit further.”
Associate Professor Terri-ann White, Director, Institute of Advanced Studies—taken from "The iLecture System: An Introduction" promotional pamphlet
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“With the iLecture System, its just so easy. You go into the lecture venue, you turn on the microphone when you turn on the lights and things like that, and the lecture automatically records. All the work is done for you in getting the lecture up on the website” and “The best feedback that I can ascertain is the use. My experience, certainly over the last two or three years as the iLecture System has become consolidated in my classes, is that about a third of the students are regularly relying on lecture recordings” and “They don't physically have to come to the classroom, there may be students who are working full-time, some have parental obligations, or other commitments might crop up, some just have too far to travel.”
Mr Alex Gardner, Senior Lecturer, Law—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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“It's really useful as a system for reaching an increasingly diverse student population” and “Its been very useful for students from non-English speaking backgrounds, for example; often we speak a little fast for them to be able to take down everything or take in everything within a lecture, so they can use the iLecture System to go over the content of the lecture at their own pace.”
Dr Andrea Gaynor, Lecturer, History—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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“I've had really positive feedback from students about iLectures, in fact there is really what I would call a demand” and “You simply can't not use the iLecture System these days at UWA.”
Dr Beverley McNamara, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Sociology—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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“Due to increasing hours in paid work and other pressures, students' time is becoming more stretched and the iLecture System is a great way to ensure that students can still get the full benefit of their education. The Guild is really supportive of this initiative.”
Ms Susie Byers, UWA Guild President, 2004—taken from "The iLecture System: An Introduction" promotional pamphlet
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“iLectures is great because if I miss a lecture or something I can go back to it, get all the information I need” and “Study for exam time, its great for that because you have all the resources in front of you. If you don't understand something in a lecture, you can go back to it when you get home at your own time, at your own pace.”
Mr Brett Simmonds, Student, 2004—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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“They enable me to make sure that I catch up on all the notes and all of the lectures that I have missed out in case I have to work” and “If I happen to have a timetable clash or a moment when I can't make a lecture, then they are always available for me.”
Ms Jo Gray, Student, 2004—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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“I really enjoy the iLectures. I am actually from the US and my home university doesn't have this so I was really surprised when I came here” and “I've used them so far when I miss class or I've also used it to help me write a paper, I just go back and go through the lecture again. I found it very useful and really easy to access, I'm not very good with computers and I can still figure out how to do it.”
Ms Corinne Case, Study Abroad Student, 2004—taken from the "About Lectopia" video presentation
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