OpenDelos

Greek Academic Network (GUnet)

(Adult learning School / AL training Center / Non-Profit Organization / Non-profit civil company “Greek Universities Network”)

OpenDelos serves as a management tool for the educational videos developed under the framework of the “Central Repository of Greek Open Courses” initiative. The “Central Repository of Greek Open Courses” aims at supporting Greek Universities in developing and providing open academic courses. The main target of the project is to develop, and make available to the public, a National Open Courses Search Portal, as a means for searching centrally the Open Courses provided by Greek Universities. The OpenDelos platform utilizes the needed tools for supporting the following activities:

 

  • Video lecture production
  • Video and presentation processing
  • Rich-player play back

 

Strengths:

 

1. The major functionalities of the platform are:

  • Video recording of lectures by remote management of installed cameras
  • Management and editing of recorded video material
  • Syncing of videos produced, to presentation slides
  • Publishing of synced video lectures through a rich-player on the web

 

2. The three main scenarios that are supported by the platform for lecture production are:

  • In-class installed camera (IP camera recording)
  • Camera crew with mobile equipment (mobile recording), in order to record in-class activities
  • Sound recording of in-class activities, e.g., lectures etc. (podcasting)

 

3. After the completion of the recording, the material can be edited and processed with online tools:

  • Video editor
  • video sync editor for editing video and combining with educational presentations

 

4. Publishing of material through:

  • Central portal for search of aggregated and indexed lecture metadata
  • Rich player for video production

 

The published material featured on OpenDelos is closely connected to the educational materials hosted on Open e-Class. The student can utilize both platforms, in order to have a better and more completed educational experience. Both platforms provide live feeds of course metadata and information to the national aggregator portal, thus providing a general and complete image for all featured courses of participating institutions.

The goal of the OpenDelos platform is to effectively manage the educational videos produced under the framework of the “Central Repository of Greek Open Courses” initiative.

 

The main goal of the “Central Repository of Greek Open Courses” is to take advantage of, successfully utilized by educational institutions, internet technologies, in order to upgrade the teaching and learning experience and promote the important social role of educational institutions in people’s lives.

Teachers and students of Greek universities and technological institutes

Version 0.9.1 (22-01-2015)

The OpenDelos platform takes action in managing the educational videos produced via the “Central Repository of Greek Open Courses” initiative. Through the respected tools it supports the following activities:

 

  • Video lecture production
  • Video and presentation processing
  • Rich-player play back

Utilization of disruptive Internet technologies leads to high quality, educational material which could upgrade the teaching procedure, highlight the important social role of educational institutes, and promote their teaching output at an international level.

 

Through the project and its practices students have to develop their self-awareness skills; certain lectures are being recorded, so clear sound and respective behavior are of utmost importance for high-quality results to be produced. On the other hand, adaptability to the practices and results of the platform, as well as its successful navigation, whenever needed are in focus, on behalf of the students.