Academic dissertation To be presented, by permission of the Medical Faculty of the University of Helsinki for public examination in the lecture hall of Töölö Hospital,

We propose a new approach of video imaging method suitable to support distance learning. Automatic active camera control and video selection system visualizes presentation information of a lecturer and active students. We consider dynamic situation of the lecture to determine the appropriate target object to be shot which gives remote students live lecture information. We have implemented our m...

In the institutions of higher education, hundreds of intellectual activities, i.e. lectures, are performed everyday. It is very important for such institutions to have a system which can archive these activities as their property efficiently and systematically. However, it will not always be the good materials for on-demand distance learning if we record the usual lectures. On the other hand, t...

BACKGROUND Assessing in undergraduate medical education the educational effectiveness of a short computer-based session, integrating a lecturer's video with a standardized structure, for evidence based medicine (EBM) teaching, compared to a lecture-based teaching session of similar structure and duration. METHOD A concealed, randomized controlled trial of computer based session versus lecture...

The University of Kentucky medical curriculum was revised in 1994 to implement a more interactive approach. The Endocrine Physiology section of the new physiology course, Human Function, was modified from its former daily lecture and weekly laboratory format to eight daily 3 1/2-h sessions. Each session is composed of four components: a didactic lecture, a whole class discussion session, a quiz...

INTRODUCTION The use of video capture technology has gained popularity over the last decade as a common teaching tool in higher education for both brick-and-mortar students as well as distance learners (4). Many students find lecture capture a useful study tool (7), and recorded lectures allow traditional and nontraditional students alike to stay caught up with the lecture material in the face ...

Because of the spread of the Internet in recent years, e-learning, which is a form of learning through the Internet, has been used in school education. Many lecture videos delivered at The Open University of Japan show lecturers and lecture slides alternately. In such video style, it is hard to understand where on the slide the lecturer is explaining. In this paper, we examined methods to autom...

This is a pedagogical introduction into the possible uses and effects of extra dimensions in electroweak (TeV scale) physics, and in particular to models of electroweak symmetry breaking via boundary conditions (“higgsless models”). It is self contained: all the aspects of extra dimensional and electroweak physics used here are reviewed, before we apply these concepts to higgsless models. In th...

Making and distributing audio recordings of lectures is cheap and technically straightforward, and these recordings represent an underexploited teaching resource. We explore the reasons why such recordings are not more used; we believe the barriers inhibiting such use should be easily overcome. Students can listen to a lecture they missed, or re-listen to a lecture at revision time, but their i...

These are the notes of two lectures given at the Mini Spring School An introduction to the mathematics of string theory held at Adelaide University in November 2002. It is a leisurely introduction to the mathematics surrounding toric varieties. Lecture I. Aims of Lecture I. (i) To contrast topological, Riemannian, symplectic and complex structures; (ii) to set up various topological objects tha...