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Two members of staff from the Adam Smith College, Calum Thomson and Keith Noble, visited Warsaw in Poland recently as part of a Leonardo project ‘How To Webcast’.

This project has seen Adam Smith College’s sector leading eLearning Innovation and Development Unit work alongside an international consortium of academics, technical experts and training companies from Poland, Czech Republic and Lithuania. The project culminated last week at the ‘How to Webcast’ conference in Warsaw where the project’s developments, methodology paper and training manual were presented.

Calum Thomson, Project Co-ordinator at Adam Smith College for the eLearning Innovation and Development Unit said: “Webcasting is basically a way of braodcasting filmed footage over the internet. For educational establishments such as colleges this is proving to be a new yet very uesful teaching tool. To do it well it is important that lecturers and trainers have the right skills and know how and that’s where the ‘How To Webcast’ project comes in. As part of the project we have created an easy to follow beginners guide to webcasting. Longer term we hope to take this manual further looking more deeply at the learning theories associated with this style of online delivery.”

While at the conference Calum delivered a presentation on social media use in education alongside keynote presentations delivered via webcast from the United States by webcasting experts Roger Courville and Wayne Turmel.

The webcast project is part of a range of successful initiatives being led by Adam Smith College. Earlier this year the College became one of the first in the UK to join iTunesU, rubbing shoulders with some of the world’s leading universities such as Oxford, Yale and Stanford. Students can now access a wide range of teaching materials including videos and blogging areas which can help back up what they are being taught in class.
The College is the first in the UK to have a channel on You Tube’s recently launched education network EDU.