Lectures 9 and 10 Lecturer : Michel

Lectures 7, 8 and 9: October 11, 13 and 18, 1999 Lecturer: Mona Singh Scribes: Ching Law and Casim A. Sarkar

An analysis of the use of virtual delivery of undergraduate lectures

Educators and technologists have been wrestling with the most appropriate way in which to use information technology in teaching and in learning, for some years. We have seen online course notes, both linear, hypertext and hypermedia format, lecturer/student communication via electronic bulletin boards or via email, multimedia courseware with student-directed learning and many others. All of th...

Cut & Paste: Merging the Video with the Whiteboard Stream for Remote Lectures

In the system we use for recording and transmitting lectures over the Internet, the board content is transmitted as vector graphics, producing thus a high quality image, while the video of the lecturer is sent as a separate stream. It is easy for the viewer to read the board but the lecturer appears in a separate window. To eliminate this problem, we segment the lecturer from the video stream a...

Analysis and extraction of behaviors by students in lectures

In this paper, we discuss the influence the following behaviors on the behavior by a specific student in lectures; (i) the behavior by the lecturer, (ii) the behaviors by other students, and (iii) the behavior by oneself. First, we detect features for behaviors by lecturer and students by using image processing methods. Next, the relations among the above features are approximated by neural net...

The Effect of Facial Expressions on Students in Virtual Educational Environments

The scope of this research was to study the relation between the facial expressions of three lecturers in a real academic lecture theatre and the reactions of the students to those expressions. The first experiment aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a virtual lecturer’s expressions on the students’ learning outcome in a virtual pedagogical environment. The second experiment studied the e...