As students' lifestyles are changing and there is greater interest in lifelong study due to the proliferation of the Internet, the demand for universities is changing every year. One of these changes is the introduction of iPod in the field of education. In the United States, a great many universities, including Stanford University, Duke University and Brown University, already distribute content for iPods by taking advantage of the extensive intellectual content available. Apple provides solutions for universities on iTunes, iTunes U. With this, we have seen changes to respond to the demands of the social environment. In Japan, some universities began to introduce iPod content in lectures around last year. Aoyama Gakuin University began to distribute lecture content for iPod so that students can catch up with the course work when they are absent from classes. The University of Tokyo distributes some of lectures on Podcast.
This service enables the distribution of lecture details for students and the public as video content for iPod. It provides total packages for support from planning and production of video content for the iPod to construction and operation of media servers.
Purposes of the Service
This service makes it possible to provide flexible study styles without the restrictions of classrooms or lecture times, and distribute educational content centering on videos that have greater power of communication as education/study tools by using iPod, which is a familiar fixture in students' lifestyles. By creating video content based on extensive intellectual content that exists in the university, this service provides many people with the opportunity to experience the university.
Service features
- Point.1: Editing lecture details to tailor them for viewing on iPod
- One of the benefits of video content distribution by iPod is the portability of lecture details, so that students can study freely in any place at any time. In order to take advantage of this benefit, it would be difficult to make students interested in studying by recording lectures held in a classroom on a real time basis as they are and by optimizing them. This service produces video content to make student interested in studying by editing lectures so that they are tailored to the environment in which they study while watching videos on iPod.
- Point.2: Download log control for each student
- When lectures begin to be digitized and distributed, the next thing you care about would be who is watching and what content. This service makes it possible to construct the systems in which individual authentication is performed for distribution of the content for students or members of the public when it is downloaded, to check who has downloaded the material, and what time and what content has been downloaded. It is also possible to oblige students who are absent from lectures to download content and manage the downloads as part of their attendance records.
- Point.3: Total support from content production to construction and operation of distribution servers
- This service provides total support from planning, in terms of to whom content is distributed and what content is distributed, to content production and distribution server construction.
Examples of Use
- Routine distribution of lectures for students, and archiving
- Distribution of private study materials for students (who are absent from classes)
- Video distribution of public lectures of open colleges and lectures for the public
- Development and distribution of original content including language materials
Flow of Service Procedures
- Content planning, production and distribution services
- We provide comprehensive services that range from planning and recording to production of video content for iPod. We also support the distribution and creation of RSS when needed.
- Construction and operation of distribution servers
- We construct and operate servers for content distribution. We also support the development of systems capable of performing individual authentication and accumulation of download logs when needed.
