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captured content and seen the benefits of capturing and publishing recorded lecture

material.

3.1 Interest of Metropolia

There is a lot of interest at Metropolia from staff and the university in general towards

producing and publishing lectures in video format. Sakari Lukkarinen, a mathematics

teacher in Metropolia, is an example of staff members that are interested in recording

their lectures and publishing the content online. Mr Lukkarinen inquired the Media En-

gineering department about inquiring as to whether the university had a standard for

recording and publishing lectures online, and if so is there was a platform or definition

as to how and where the content should be published and shared. Jonna Eriksson from

the Media Engineering department, informed Mr Lukkarinen that there was no such

standard in the whole university and that the general consensus was that each teacher

could do as they pleased, in regards to recording and publishing their own content.

After his discussion with Ms Eriksson, Mr Lukkarinen proceeded to buy a camera, and

started recording all of his lectures with the intent of simply uploading and publishing

his lectures on Youtube. He then proceeded to share the link to the published material

by posting the link on the Tuubi-portal as a course announcement. Mr Lukkarinen has

gained positive feedback from his students for publishing his lectures on Youtube.

There have been several similar inquiries made by different parties in the Metropolia

University, and not just in the Leppävaara campus, where the Media Engineering de-

partment is located and where the majority of solution testing occurred.

3.2 Why and how to record the lectures

There are several reasons as to why there should be a standard for recording lectures

at Metropolia and why teachers should be encouraged to do so is simple; Lecture ma-

terial that is recorded and published online is more readily and widely available to stu-

dents. For example, students that could not attend a lecture due to being ill, working or

otherwise engaged. With online lectures they can still be able to keep up with the

events and contents of the lectures. Also those students that feel that the lecturer

rushed while explaining certain concepts during the lecture can revisit the content and

revise on what was discussed.