Lecture Capture Part 3: Looking for scalable entry-level options

A further look at the tech behind some of the big Lecture Capture apps, and their entry-level options and scalability.

For the last few weeks, I’ve been learning a bit about lecture capture systems. This week I take a closer look at a few specific products. I am particularly interested in those vendors whose products and licensing lend themselves to easy entry-level access to this technology, in a form that can easily scale up.

My approach to today’s post was to search a number of the big Lecture Capture vendor’s websites for info on two things: 1) the technology used to enable the apps (does it require a central server? is it available in a hosted architecture? can you scale it up easily?) and; 2) the scalability of the licensing/pricing model.

I want to identify a solution that I would be confident bringing into my institution to use in real applications, on a small scale that lets us learn, and that can scale up easily if we decide we’d like to do so. I spent a few hours poking around these web sites, and some seem to indicate that they offer what I am looking for, while others may offer it but it wasn’t evident from the materials I saw.

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Per their web site, Tegrity (2.0) is totally web based and claims to be fully scalable. The annual subscription price to the Tegrity service is based on either full time enrollment (FTE), number of classrooms, or a combination thereof. “Your subscription may cover the entire campus or individual departments. In either scenario, every student and every professor may use Tegrity at no additional cost ... [Please click here to read the complete post at EmergingEdTech.com, where I blog regularly about the use of Internet tools in education, and other instructional technologies. Thanks!]