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Wednesday 1^st of March – Joint Apereo & Opencast day
	Room A	Room B	Room C
9:30-10:30	1a: Opening
11:00-13:00	1b: Apereo & Opencast success stories
14:00-15:30	1c: Opencast deployments in large and small institutions. Opencast as an innovation platform
16:00-17:30	1d: Workshop -Basic Opencast Administration Tutorial	U13:Visualizations	1f: Workshop – Getting Started with Opencast Development
19:00	Social Event
Thursday 2nd of March
	Room A	Room B	Room C
9:00-10:30	2a: Video Distribution	U6: REST + U7:Tests are always good! …are they really?
11:00-12:45	2b: User interaction	U11:Capture Agent API API and Future Capture agent session
13:30-15:00	Social event
15:30-17:00	2c: Connecting external systems	U9:Galicaster 2.0 Community Edition “under the hood”
17:15-18:00	U10: Asset Manager – High level concepts and design considerations	Unconference Slot 5b
19:30	Social Event
Friday 3rd of March
	Room A	Room B	Room C
9:00-10:40	3a: Capture agents & Vendor Show	U10: Asset Manager – High level concepts and design considerations
11:15-12:45	3b: Adopter highlights	More on Capture Agents
14:00-15:30	3c: Present and future topics	U1:Porting Participation Managent to Opencast 2.x U4:Improving the Accessibility of Opencast
15:30-16:30	Open talk on the future of Opencast with the Opencast Board. Wrap-up
16:45-17:30	National Meetings

Unconference track

Unconference track will Schedule the talks by decision of the assistants, so we will have a fresh and dynamic track focused on planning and
development (but not only), and can be updated during the conference.

Each day an Unconference planning session will happen, to decide on the scheduling of the next sessions.

We also need your help for scheduling. Vote for your preferences here (https://goo.gl/forms/yzeR7cNQdTXJznkf1)

The unconference topics currently available are:

Talk	Title	Presenter
U1	Porting Participation Managent to Opencast 2.x Abstract Disabled student access to lecture recordings has been deemed a «reasonable adjustment» at the University of Manchester. This meant that recordings of any lectures attended by a student should be made available to them in a timely manner regardless of whether the lecturer had chosen to opt out or hold the recording for editing and review. This talk will discuss the technical changes made to Opencast and our Video Portal, and the impact on the lecture recording service and students.	Tobias Schiebeck, James Perrin and Stuart Phillipson
U2	LTI discussion Abstract I don’t know if someone else has already suggested this, but it would be great to discuss with other institutions how we use LTI and how it can be improved. Some suggested topics for discussion include: Handling of roles Running workflows as LTI User Using the Admin interface as LTI User Supporting some other LTI messages such as Configuration and ContentItem	Paul Pettit
U3	AWS changes for 2.x Abstract In this session I will be exploring how to use the upcoming Amazon Web Services distribution and archiving components. We will discuss the new features, as well as the backend changes which were made to facilitate these tools This session is targeted at developers.	Gregory Logan
U4	Improving the Accessibility of Opencast Abstract The accessibility (a11y) of Opencast for people with disabilities is very mixed. The player provides at least keyboard control and ARIA profiles for speech synthesis, and it even offers the zoom functionality of the video that might be beneficial for visually handicapped people. The admin UI currently offers no a11y techniques. The aim of this session would be to identify how important it is for the community to improve the a11y of the admin UI. Further on I want to increase the awareness that for future developments a11y should be more in the focus of developers. And last but not least we would need structures within our QA that ensure that a11y is not broken within a new release. In a typical QA test regular do not focus on these “hidden” a11y features.	Rüdiger Rolf
U5	Opencast Complaint Group Abstract The goal of this session is to raise awareness of community issues which you feel are underrepresented. If you have a problem, big or small, technical or not, we want to hear it. This session will be entirely community powered – we are here to listen. This session is targeted at everyone.	Gregory Logan
U6	REST Abstract This lightning talk shall (re-)introduce the basic ideas behind RESTful services, how they should behave and which HTTP methods to use for which effect to prevent incorrect and confusing usage in Opencast	Lars Kiesow
U7	Tests are always good! …are they really? Abstract Nowadays it is widely accepted that tests are a good thing. Tools like Travis CI or Pipelines make continuous integration part of a developers default workflow and this improves software quality. Hence, it is obvious that more tests are always better, right? No! You can do a lot of things wrong when writing tests. Some errors are harmless but others might render the complete testing useless and may even harm the project. This talk is about my experience with automatic tests in several open source projects. Several times, I found bad tests and, maybe even worse, people defending them.	Lars Kiesow
U8	Improving your pull requests (Git magic) Abstract In this lightning talk, I want to show how to create and update pull requests without adding thousands of cross merges, “Fixed Typo” commits and reverts by using git rebase	Lars Kiesow
U9	Galicaster 2.0 Community Edition “under the hood” Abstract In this presentation we will explain the process of porting Galicaster from GStreamer 0.10 to GStreamer 1.x, our most required feature so far, and the subsequent changes this required to the product, like pushing us to also move towards GTK 3 and Ubuntu 16.04. Even though this may look like the biggest change, the new Galicaster version has also suffered from a major refactoring, moving the recorder logic to its own service. Now making a recording is as easy as: from galicaster.core import context recorder = context.get_recorder() recorder.start() # … recorder.stop() To sum up, we will present all the changes that the new major version of Galicaster will bring to the community and how it will make developing further changes a better and more exciting experience.	Alfonso Rodriguez and Vicente Goyanes
U10	Asset Manager – High level concepts and design considerations Abstract On behalf of ETH Zurich, engineers at Extron (formerly Entwine) have developed the latest incarnation of the original archive service. Because of its asset oriented nature and due to the fact that it is not a fully fledged archive, the service has been renamed to «Asset Manager». In this presentation, we look at the proposed architecture as well as the design decisions that led to the service implementation.	Tobias Wunden, Extron Electronics
U11	Capture Agent API API and Future Capture agent session Abstract In this session interested parties can come together to discuss the capture agent API and its changes going forward. This discussion based session will be highly technical, but non-technical users are welcome! This session is targeted at developers	Gregory Logan, Lars Kiesow
U12	Opencast Market Abstract This session is devoted to moving the concept of the Opencast Market forward. This market will be a centralized place where Opencast adopters can find developers to build what they need, and optionally make that available to the community. This session is targeted at adopters and developers	Gregory Logan
U13	Visualization and Learning Analytics in Opencast Abstract Waiting for abstract…	Community session

Wednesday 1^st of March – Joint Apereo & Opencast day
	ROOM A				ROOM B
Time	Talk	Title	Authors	Length(min)	Title
8:45	Registration desk open
9:30-10:30	Session 1a: Opening
	1a1	Welcome	Vicent Botti & Olaf Schulte Universitat Politécnica de Valencia & ETH Zürich	30
	1a2	Welcome from Apereo	Ian Dolphin Apereo	15
	1a3	Opencast in Numbers Abstract Opencast has established itself as one of the larger lecture recording systems out in the field. Development went on for years and the community has grown over time. This talk strives to measure this development by presenting several interesting statistics about the development of Opencast along with its community.	Lars Kiesow Elan e.v. Osnabrück	30
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-13:00	Session 1b: Apereo & Opencast success stories
	1b1	Apereo joint Session- New generation LMS	Chuck Severance University of Michigan	30
	1b2	Opencast in UCT + Get the closeup! Presenter tracking using Lecturesight and Track4K Abstract The University of Cape Town is deploying two approaches for lecturer tracking in videos.The Lecturesight (www.lecturesight.org) open source PTZ tracking system has been deployed in 21 venues. Lecturesight uses real-time video analysis to identify the presenter location and send movement commands to a PTZ camera.And in 2016, a group of students developed the Track4K system (http://track4k.co.za/) which can be used to post-process a 4K video to provide a tracked close-up version of a presenter. Track4K is being developed as an open source project with Opencast integration.The presentation will introduce the projects, show examples of the solutions in action, and describe their strengths and weaknesses.	Stephen Marquard University of Cape Town	30
	1b3	Latest Opencast Releases Abstract In this talk, we would like to present the latest stable version of Opencast (2.3) as well as the current release (2.4) which is scheduled to be released in July. What has changed? What are new features? Is there anything in particular, you need to know when updating?	Lars Kiesow, Greg Logan and Tobias Schiebeck	30
	1b4	Unconference Planning Session	Opencast Board	30
13:00-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:45	Session 1c: Opencast deployments in large and small institutions. Opencast as an innovation platform
	1c1	Opencast and the Paella Player at Graz University of Technology Abstract At Graz University of Technology we have been using Opencast (and Matterhorn) for the last three years. In this lightning talk, we would like to concisely share with the Opencast Community the experiences we had so far, focusing mainly on the upgrade process from Matterhorn 1.4.x to Opencast 2.2.x. Furthermore, the design and the usability of our new video portal (which has Opencast and the Paella Player in its core) will be presented.	Ypatios Grigoriadis Graz University of Technology	15
	1c2	Integrating Opencast at the University of Helsinki Abstract The usage of Opencast at the University of Helsinki has iteratively grown from a small Opencast Matterhorn pilot to a video backend system powering the university’s video service, which includes live broadcasts, public and moodle-limited video publishing to usable for all university members, lecture capture halls, unitube self service video studios, etc. In the presentation we will present our current setup with mostly self-made integrations to other systems like Drupal, Moodle, Extron SMP, Wowza, JWPlayer, etc.	Sami Andberg University of Helsinki	15
	1c3	Opencast in the Cloud at Harvard DCE Abstract Harvard DCE uses Opencast to deliver both lecture capture, and online-only courses to students around the world. Our Opencast clusters serve hundreds of courses, and thousands of students, each semester, and run entirely in Amazon’s Cloud (AWS) — only our capture agents are on campus. Our focus is on exceptional video quality and extraordinarily reliable capture and distribution. This talk will describe how our current system works, our plans for the future.	Jody Fanto and Rute Santos Harvard University	15
	1c4	Live Streaming to Facebook Abstract Within the winter-semester 2016/17 the University of Osnabrück streamed a lecture live to facebook. For the recording we used a 4K IP-camera and PyCA. Wowza was used as a proxy to facebook. Within this short presentation we present some lessons learned in this experiment.	Rüdiger Rolf and Christian Greweling Elan e.v. Osnabrück	15
	1c5	Having fun with Opencast and 360º video Abstract In the last year some devices able to record and stream 360 degrees video had been launched. We have been experimenting with a Ricoh Theta S camera together with Opencast and we have been using Opencast and Paella Player to stream and record 360º videos. We will show how to do it from a user perspectve with a functional demo (hopefully)	Ignacio Coll, Miguel Escrivà, Pablo Soler and Carlos Turro Universitat Politècnica de València	15
	1c6	Implementing Opencast for the second time Abstract Having deployed a successful Opencast installation at University of Sussex, this summer I moved to Keele University to take a small pilot deployment and scale up to a new production system. I would like to talk about how Opencast fit into a completely different infrastructure, and is flexible enough to be integrated in a totally different way to the first time I deployed it. At Keele we are using LTI and timetabling integration rather than manual recordings and custom integration at my previous institution. I will also briefly talk about issues I encountered with automated schedules and timetable integration and present some lessons learned.	Paul Pettit Keele University	15
15:45-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Workshops (Parallel sessions)				Unconference Session 1
	1d	Basic Opencast Administration Tutorial Abstract This session is a condensed version of an admin workshop in Cologne in February 2017 . It will provide a general introduction to Opencast for new Adopters and a «Guided Tour» through the Opencast Admin UI explaining Events, Series, Themes, Comments, Dashboard, Search Box, Filters, Video Editing and more.	Rüdiger Rolf Elan e.v. Osnabrück	90
	1e	Getting Started with Opencast Development (Room C) Abstract This session is designed to get new developers off the ground with a working development environment and a brief introduction into the codebase. This is the session you need if you want to learn how to build Opencast code, but don’t know how. This session is targeted at adopters, operation staff, and new developers	Gregory Logan University of Cape Town	90
19:00	Social Event

Thursday 2nd of March
	ROOM A				ROOM B
Time	Talk	Title	Authors	Length(min)	Title
9:00-10:30	Session 2a: Video distribution
	2a0	Welcome & Unconference Planning Session	Board	10
	2a1	Improvements to the Video-Editor Abstract UCT and the ELAN e.V. worked together on some improvements of the video-editor in Opencast 2.4. UCT evaluated the Opencast 2.x video-editor and did a gap-analysis with the Opencast 1.6 editor. Based on this evaluation they identified several open issues. Together with the ELAN e.V. several of these issues will be addressed in 2.4.	Rüdiger Rolf and Corne Oosthuizen Elan e.v. Osnabrück & University of Cape Town	30	Unconference Session 2
	2a2	Video Upload Tool Abstract A Video Upload Tool built by the Podcast team at the University of Manchester enables users to upload videos which are processed by Opencast workflows then harvested by a Video Portal. The tool available to all staff of the University provides a simple standalone Upload Tool hence decoupling video upload from Opencast Admin UI. It has user access restriction and administrator view built in.	Franck Tanoh and Stuart Phillipson	15
	2a3	Wowza Adaptive Streaming Module Abstract The University of Osnabrück developed a replacement to the Streaming Service that was specially conceived to work with the Wowza Media Server and its adaptive streaming capabilities (HLS, MPEG-DASH, etc). The University of Cologne has recently reviewed and improved this module for the version 2.3. This talk aims to present the module in its current state and make a short explanation about its installation and usage in a production scenario.	Ruben Perez Vazquez and Ruth Lang University of Köln	15
	2a4	Paella Player 5.1 Abstract This presentation will show the features and future plans of Paella 5.1. This will include internals as using ECMAScript 6, with Traceur compiler and jQuery deferred changed to ECMAScript promises., but also new features, like adding secondary audio streams, new aspect ratios and new and experimental plugins, like chroma key, video360 and Apple Air Play.	Carlos Turro, Fernando Serrano and Miguel Escrivà Universitat Politècnica de València	20
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:45	Session 2b: User interaction				Unconference Session 3
	2b1	Video for Reflective Practice in the Classroom Abstract This paper introduces two pilot projects in which university trainee teachers were filmed in class using multiple cameras and microphones, some pointing at the presenter others at the audience. The aim is to encourage students to evaluate and reflect upon their own presenting/teaching skills and also those of their peers. Swivl robots with iPads were used for the filming and the videos were streamed on the Kaltura platform, accessed via Blackboard. Some students edited their videos online to direct peer comments to a particular element of their teaching practice. Others watched their presentations back to critique their own performance before receiving feedback from their peers. The use of video is designed to overcome the transient life of the face-to-face in-class experience. The focus of the session will be on the technologies used, the challenges faced and the educational affordances for both the students and their teachers.	Ross Parker and Candace Nolan-Grant	30
	2b2	Social Feature: Student Comment Video Annotations Abstract In this talk, I will present how Harvard DCE adapted three UPV Paella Player plugins into a client side video annotation tool that helps students become more engaged with recorded material and with each other. This social feature gives students a means to communicate by way of the recorded video. Students can present questions and answer questions that were asked during class through the tool. Their textual comments are synchronized to the video and displayed in the context of video. This talk will describe the tool’s technical implementation and its current use.	Karen Dolan Harvard University	15
	2b3	Advances in Live Student Annotations Abstract In the last Opencast Summit we presented our ideas for a live annotation tool for Opencast. We have advanced some steps and we will show these together with a live demo.Comments will be very wellcomed	Marcos Martí, Leonardo Salom and Carlos Turro Universitat Politècnica de València	15
	2b4	Interactive Video Abstract In collaboration with University of Stuttgart, we developed modules that enable Theodul Player to add interactive questions to videos. Design of questions is done with a QTI (Question and Test Interoperability) editor, like the one from Ilias learning management system (LMS). The user experience, while answering questions, can be stored inside a learning record store (LRS). I will demonstrate how to create and add a question and talk about the parts involved.	Michael Stypa	30
	2b5	Social event planning Abstract Some remarks about the organization of the mascletà Social Event	Carlos Turró Universitat Politècnica de València	15
12:45:13:15	Grab-and-go lunch
13:15-15:30	Social Event
15:30-17:00	Session 2c: Connecting external systems				Unconference Session 4
	2c1	PuMuKIT as OC Media manager and Video Portal. New features Abstract PuMuKIT is an Open-source, MAM (Media Asset Management) solution. Developed by the University of Vigo and other institutions since 2004, it provides an open solution to any organization for building an appealing media portal for OC and much more. This presentation will show several real project that were completed in the last year deploying OC and PuMuKIT together and the new features introduced in PuMuKIT thanks to the contribution of those new adopters. New features like an improved MOODLE integration with a special focus on user experience, a new Statistics module with interactive graphics or the new Assets Auto-management feature set, so now users can manage their own videos doing non destructive trimming, chapter-marking or playlists	Vicente Goyanes Teltek	15
	2c2	Automated Captions/Transcripts using the IBM Watson Speech-to-Text service Abstract In this talk, I will present how Harvard DCE integrated the IBM Watson Speech-to-Text service to automatically produce captions/transcripts for all our recordings.	Rute Santos Harvard University	15
	2c3	Automatic multilingual transcription and subtitling with Universitat Politècnica de València’s poliTrans Abstract Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has developed its own multilingual automatic transcription and subtitling service, poliTrans, with which the university is maintaining subtitles for all of the videos in its institutional video repository, poliMedia (in several languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, French). In this talk we will show the work UPV has been doing to apply this technology to the university’s Opencast video repository, Videoapunts. Subtitling Videoapunts has presented its own challenges, among them dealing with recordings with adverse conditions. The UPV’s Machine Learning and Language Processing research group (MLLP) and the university’s Media Services have been collaborating in tackling this challenge, both from the speech recognition software side, and from the physical audio recording setup side.Our approach is based on generating high-quality automatic subtitles that are as accurate as possible, and then when necessary post-edit them using our own advanced post-editing interface. When the videos are published, lecturers and students can also easily submit corrections if they detect any mistakes in the subtitles. UPV is applying to this work their experience from the previous EU projects transLectures (2012-2014) and EMMA (2014-2016). Since transLectures, Opencast has been taken into account as one of the ideal platforms in which to integrate the MLLP’s automatic transcription and translation technology, with the advantage of the UPV being an active Opencast participant. UPV is also offering now its online automatic subtitling service poliTrans to other universities and organizations, which can integrate it via an advanced API.	Miguel Ángel Del-Agua Tebar et al. Universitat Politècnica de València	15
	2c4	First experiences working with the new ILIAS plugin and the External API Abstract PuMuKIT is an Open-source, MAM (Media Asset Management) solution. Developed by the University of Vigo and other institutions since 2004, it provides an open solution to any organization for building an appealing media portal for OC and much more. This presentation will show several real project that were completed in the last year deploying OC and PuMuKIT together and the new features introduced in PuMuKIT thanks to the contribution of those new adopters. New features like an improved MOODLE integration with a special focus on user experience, a new Statistics module with interactive graphics or the new Assets Auto-management feature set, so now users can manage their own videos doing non destructive trimming, chapter-marking or playlists	Ruth Lang University of Köln	15
	2c5	Using LDAP with Opencast 2.3.x: what works and what does not (yet!) Abstract Due to the rather confusing authentication mechanism in Opencast, the LDAP integration has a lot of limitations, when it is not completely broken. This talk will discuss the attempts made at the University of Cologne to fix this situation and the future steps to improve the integration with external user providers.	Ruben Perez Vazquez and Ruth Lang University of Köln	15
	2c5	Users, groups, roles, ACLs and providers: integrating Opencast with external systems Abstract In some integration scenarios, it is helpful for Opencast to know something about users in an external system, for example an LMS, or an LDAP directory.This presentation will outline how Opencast User, Group and Role Providers can work with external systems to build an effective integration. Recent changes to Opencast in these areas will also be presented.	Stephen Marquard University of Cape Town	15
17:00-17:15	Coffee break
17:15-18:00	Unconference Session 5a				Unconference Session 5b
19:30	Social Event

Friday 3rd of March
	ROOM A				ROOM B
Time	Talk	Title	Authors	Length(min)	Title
9:00-10:40	3a: Capture agents & Vendor Show
	3b0	Welcome & Unconference Planning Session	Board	10
	3a1	PyCA Abstract This lightning talk shall present the current state of pyCA, a small and fast free, open source Opencast capture agent. What are its main ideas? What has changed in the last two years? What are important aspects and features? How can you use it?	Lars Kiesow Elan e.v. Osnabrück	15	U10: Asset Manager – High level concepts and design considerations
	3a2	Galicaster 2.x Community Edition, Feedback and Roadmap Abstract One of the goals for Galicaster 2 was to ease the development of new features. For this we did things like separate the recording logic into a service and add the ability to load external plugins. After releasing the first version, we believe we are ready to start working on more exciting features: • Hardware-accelerated video recording • ONVIF camera controlling support. But we also want to keep improving the developer experience with changes like: • More/better docs. • Porting to Python 3. • Refactoring the worker-operation system. This is why we would like to present our roadmap to the community and listen to your feedback on which features you find more appealing.	Alfonso Rodriguez and Vicente Goyanes Teltek	15
	3a3	Vendor show- NCAST. Hank Magnuski		20
	3a4	Vendor show- Teltek (Galicaster 2.0 PRO Edition and Fleet Manager) Abstract While on 2015 the main goal of the Galicaster team was mainly to build a PRO version of Galicaster, on 2016 our main goal was a complete technological upgrade and refactoring of both the Community and PRO version with the migration to GStreamer 1.x, GTK3 and Ubuntu 16,04. In this talk we will present how this big step forward benefits Galicaster-PRO, its features, the new interoperable plugin architecture between the Community and PRO versions and the integration with Galicaster Fleet Manager, the fleet management tool for Galicaster.	Vicente Goyanes Teltek	20
	3a5	Vendor show – 323link capture agent	323link	20
10:40-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-12:45	Session 3b: Adopter Highlights				More on Capture Agents
	3b1	An overview of Lecture Capture at the University of Manchester Abstract The University of Manchester records in excess of 42,000 hours of lectures per year, with over 320 classroom equipped for lecture capture. This talk will cover how our Opencast system was implemented and how it changed over a four year period to cope with growing demand.	Stuart Phillipson University of Manchester	15
	3b2	Lecture Recordings for Disabled Students in an Opt Out System Abstract Disabled student access to lecture recordings has been deemed a «reasonable adjustment» at the University of Manchester. This meant that recordings of any lectures attended by a student should be made available to them in a timely manner regardless of whether the lecturer had chosen to opt out or hold the recording for editing and review. This talk will discuss the technical changes made to Opencast and our Video Portal, and the impact on the lecture recording service and students.	James Perrin and Stuart Phillipson University of Manchester	15
	3b3	The case of implementing a lecture capture system with Opencast and Galicaster, in seven institutions as part of the ARMAZEG EU funded project Abstract The ARMAZEG project, coordinated by the University of Leuven and financed by the European Commission within the TEMPUS IV program, aims to modernize and reform the approach to the education in two Sub-Caucasian countries, Armenia and Georgia. The main goal of the project is to further implement e-learning with a focus on developing lifelong learning methodologies. It has 4 main objectives: • An assessment of the current situation and development of a vision and implementation strategy • The establishment of centres for lifelong learning with trained staff in administrative/organizational, pedagogical and technological aspects of e-learning/blended learning • The organization of capacity building and training workshops to professionalize teaching staff in the field of e-learning • The development of a quality assurance plan and the set-up of pilot projects During this presentation we will focus on the educational, technological and managerial requirements for the development of seven e-learning centres within the higher education ARMAZEG partner institutions in Armenia and Georgia. Mainly, the implementation of a lecture capture system and why we have chosen an Opencast based solution and a supplier which could deliver a «turnkey» system. In addition to these requirements, we go deeper into the complex implementation process, from requirements to installation, training and support. Finally, we look at the learning process for ourselves. What went well, what could have been better and why.	Jan Ryckaert KU Leuven	30
	3b4	Progress with Playback Abstract This presentation covers two strands, the first will focus on the evaluation of the PlayBack pilot in 2015/16. The second on the development of PlayBack as one tool in a growing suite of capture technologies available at Keele. A range of methods were used to collect evaluation data, these will be explored and the lessons learned discussed alongside trends from the qualitative data captured. The evaluation highlighted the student perception of benefit from using PlayBack and showed how students use the service. When looking across the published literature on lecture capture conflicting evidence is offered about the benefit of captured lectures to learning. Leadbeater et al (2013) discuss the high use of captured lectures by non-native speakers of english and students who have dyslexia. Describing the benefits to these students in the context of being able to revisit material, but also highlighting that in some cases high use can lead to surface approaches to learning. This demonstrates the need for students to be supported to use the generated resources appropriately, work completed by Cornock provides examples of this support . If lecture capture is considered a tool that creates supplementary resources for these resources to be educationally beneficial students need support in learning how to use them appropriately.	Phil Devine, Matt Street and Paul Pettit Keele University	20
12:45:14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 3c: Present and future topics				U1:Porting Participation Managent to Opencast 2.x U4:Improving the Accessibility of Opencast
	3c1	Migration to Opencast 2.3 Abstract Migration to a new Opencast Version becomes more important the older the running instance gets. To get the benefit of the new Features, there is often the demand to migrate the Data from the running older Opencast Instances to a new one. In this talk I would like to show 3 different approaches to get to Opencast 2.3. And have a discussion about the best way to migrate to an new Version of Opencast.	Christian Greweling Elan e.v. Osnabrück	30
	3c2	Video usage analysis in R Abstract The usertracking endpoint of Opencast collects data on the usage of videos published to the media module. This provides us with the opportunity to explore the usage of all our recordings, which can be filter to analyse the usage per series or even by episode. This can reveal patterns which might be of interest to lecturers, for example if the students used the recordings to prepare for lectures or if they only used the recordings to prepare for the exam. This talk will cover how we at the University of Münster implemented usage analysis in R and how the data can be communicated to the lecturers.	Daniel Ebbert University of Münster	15
	3c3	File Archive Service: moving archived recordings to Amazon S3 Abstract In this talk, I will present how Harvard DCE was able to reduce the amount of storage in the file system by moving archived files to Amazon S3, keeping only the most recent recordings’s assets in the local file system, but allowing seamless access to all.	Rute Santos Harvard University	15
	3c4	QA state of the project Abstract	Gregory Logan	15
	3c5	Security Abstract This talk tries to raise the awareness for this issue. What do we have? How can we manage problems? How can we improve the handling of security issues in the community?	Lars Kiesow Elan e.v. Osnabrück	15
15:30-16:30	Open talk on the future of Opencast. Wrap-up
16:45-17:30	Session 3d: National Meetings
	3d1	Spanish speaking community meeting	Carlos Turro and Vicente Goyanes	45
	3d2	German Speaking community meeting	Rüdiger Rolf	45

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