Webcast to Online Course Conversion Module
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online courses require significant time and energy to create and often lack interactivity, whereas web casts can only provide interactivity if live, limiting their ability to engage remote users effectively.
Innovation Solution
A computing device with a presenter user interface and conversion module that can convert web casts into online courses and vice versa, allowing for the creation, editing, and sequencing of audiovisual units, including quizzes and polls, to enhance interactivity and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If web casts are converted to online courses, then interactivity and engagement are improved, but time and energy required for creation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically copies and processes audiovisual content from web casts to create online course units. The conversion module extracts audiovisual segments, associates them with quiz/poll/question data, and structures them into course format without requiring manual recreation of content, thus maintaining interactivity while reducing creation time
Solution Approach 2:
The conversion module performs self-service by automatically determining events in the audiovisual stream, segmenting content into appropriate units, and structuring them into online course format. This automation reduces the time and energy required for manual course creation while preserving interactive elements
2Ease of operation
If online courses are created manually, then interactivity is improved, but accessibility and availability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies existing web cast content and transforms it into online course format, making interactive courses available from content that would otherwise only be accessible as live web casts. This increases the availability of interactive learning materials without requiring manual course creation for each topic
Solution Approach 2:
The conversion module changes the structural parameters of the content from web cast format to online course format, enabling on-demand access and improved availability. The system modifies how the content is organized and delivered, transforming it into a format that can be accessed asynchronously while maintaining interactive capabilities
3Ease of operation
If web casts are made interactive, then they must be live, but flexibility and on-demand access deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies the interactive elements (quizzes, polls, questions) from live web casts and embeds them into recorded online course units. This allows the same interactive experience to be available in on-demand recorded format, providing both interactivity and flexibility without requiring live delivery
Solution Approach 2:
The conversion module segments the web cast content into discrete audiovisual units, each associated with specific interactive elements. This segmentation allows the content to be delivered on-demand in a flexible manner while preserving the interactive capabilities that were originally only available during live broadcasts
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving by a computing device, a stream of audiovisual content, the audiovisual content including at least one quiz, poll, and/or question, are described herein. In various embodiments, the computing device may also determine one or more events in the audiovisual content and determine a set of audiovisual units from the audiovisual content, the set of audiovisual units corresponding at least in part to the determined one or more events. Further, in some embodiments, the computing device may remove from the determined set of audiovisual units one or more audiovisual units that correspond to at least a portion of the at least one quiz, poll, and/or question. In alternate embodiments, the process may be reversed.