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There are numerous benefits as to why lectures should be recorded, but there are also

disadvantages; it is time consuming to produce material that is publishable online, with

time and effort being spent on recording, editing and uploading the content to a plat-

form or service. As there is no standard or service for recording and streaming content

at Metropolia it falls to the individual lecturer to decide how to proceed. For more infor-

mation on how to record a lecture, a “how-to” guide can be found in the Appendix

Consequently, a reason as to why a standard for recording, publishing and sharing

content should be created, is that Metropolia already has several different platforms

such as Tuubi, Moodle, Wiki that are non-compatible with each other and every teacher

can do as they please. If there was a standard for the entire university, it would be

much easier for anyone interested in recording their lectures to get started as all the

required information and any assistance required would be readily available to them.

Also all of the material could then be shared, published and accessed freely as all the

material is located in one location rather than spread across several different platforms.

This will improve the overall experience, let alone increasing accessibility to the materi-

al.

4 Available solutions

For the purpose of the research, three streaming and recording solutions that are

available in Finland were chosen, all of which shall be discussed in depth shortly. The

reasoning behind testing three different solutions was to compare other alternative op-

tions to the system already in use in Metropolia, i.e. the Adobe ConnectPro, thus the

comparison of the Crestron CaptureLive HD, Haivision Viper and Adobe ConnectPro.

Although there are several other alternative solutions such as Deco Media’s QSB 3.0,

the Crestron and Haivision systems were chosen due to their promising functions to

fulfil the requirements of Metropolia and the general needs in the introduction.