CERN IT "rapid e-learning" project

Mandate

This project aims at promoting features, tools and, mostly IT, services via very short videos - ideally not exceeding 5 minutes. These short informative and educational sequences can be recorded by the CERN audiovisual services and/or screen capture tools at the desk. Our aim is to provide tools and advice for content owners and/or users of the information to do this. This is the kind of "rapid e-learning", also used in industry to familiarise people with procedures.

CERN safety, management and language courses in the training catalogue also contain e-learning components. These are outside the scope of this project.

Tools' index

• Contact email for questions: e-learning.support at cern.ch
• SNOW KB articlet https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/article.do?n=KB0005264
• About future documentation with Markdown:
  • The website http://cern.ch/it-e-learning contains new the User Guide written in markdown with MkDocs.
  • Documentation repository: https://gitlab.cern.ch/dimou/it-e-learning
  • Instructions https://twiki.cern.ch/Edutech/HelpPagesWithMarkdown
• Project descriptions:
  1. Initial Project description here. It contains some Use Cases and Content owners. Resulting thesis in CDS and defence material here.
  2. Phase II - October 2016 here. It includes Use Cases recorded in this period.
  3. Phase III - January 2017 onwards here. It includes Academic Training lectures' youtube inclusion.
• e-learning-interest e-group here. Members can be viewed.
• vidyo portal here. It can be used for any meeting or rehearsal.
• Indico category dedicated to e-learning here.
• CDS category dedicated to e-learning here
• Hashtag in social here.
• CERN service account for storing scripts and documentation: elearn
• CERN e-learning logo here.
• Video library Edutech.
• Users' Feedback.

Utilities

• Teleprompter: Absolutely indispensable for a smooth speech flow. Use the notes' part of each slide (if you have slides) or a plain text file to read while being recorded. teleprompter: A free-of-charge teleprompter on the web, by company https://telepromptermirror.com/software/. It requires plaintext (no pdf). NB! When opening the telepromptermirror web page, erase the sample text from your browser and paste in the content of your script. Keep a finger on the arrow ">" so that you can stop/start when needed!
• Terminal recording tool asciinema: A simple to use from a terminal tool that records/replays what you type, suggested by Pedro Ferreira.
• Screen capture tools:
  • ffmpeg - A free, open source and cross platform command line tool to make tutorials from your desk. Documentation and tutorial in the video library. Also (depending on your OS):
  • shotcut for all, QuickTime for Mac, QuickTime tutorial
  • kazam for ubuntu and ActivePresenter for Windows users (already installed for CERN users) ActivePresenter tutorial
  • For Mac and Windows there is also the web-based https://screencast-o-matic.com/screen_recorder
• A tool to play your slides as a video. It makes .mp4
• Audio recording tool: audacity for any OS
• Voice-to-Text transcription solutions by Alex Manzoni (currently evaluating):
  • Speech recognition built-in MAC
  • Speech recognition built-in Windows
  • Nuance DRAGON Professional solutions
  • The youtube transcription in the Q&A session in EPFL on 2017/06/08.
• Standards: The MARC21 standard for introducing fields in Metadata, e.g. your video Duration field 306.
• Video editing tools: After initial recording of a video, the video has to be edited. Good commercial products for editing videos are:
  • "Final Cut Pro" for Mac (about 300$ one-time-charge - 2017 price)
  • "Adobe Premiere Pro" for Windows(about 20$ per month - 2017 price)

For free alternatives for simple video editing there is "iMovie" for Mac, and "Windows Movie Maker" for Windows.

Points for speakers' preparation and recording set-up:

See PointsForSpeakers

Template to describe a Use Case

Title:
Duration:
Public: (CERN users, public?)
Material: (For example: slides, documentation files attached, screen capture, terminal recording,...)
Preferred recording method: (CERN audiovisual services or screen capture at the service manager's desktop)
Description: (ideally the exact text of the whole tutorial for the telepromper or, at least, the chapters/sections' titles)
CERN video content owner:
Other information: 

Use cases

See UseCases

Presentations

• 2017-12-11: E-learning and Documentation presentation to the ATLAS Software & Computing Documentation Workshop Slides,same slides, different web server, Agenda (restricted)
• 2017-02-02: Academic Training lecture Video as a medium for Learning & Teaching https://indico.cern.ch/event/595795/
• 2016-10-07: Presentation at the IT Technical Forum https://indico.cern.ch/e/CERN-ITTF-2016-10-07 - Video available from the e-learning CDS collection.
• 2016-10-03: One slide for the IT Technical Users' Meeting http://indico.cern.ch/e/ITUM-19
• 2016-08-15: Presentation at the IT Management Meeting - slides on https://indico.cern.ch/event/555168/ (viewable by IT members only) and also here (attached to this twiki).
• 2016-08-03: Meeting of the e-learning-interest-group - slides on https://indico.cern.ch/event/558706/
• 2016-02-29 : ATLAS Software & Computing Workshop. Here are the slides for those who can't view the Indico event (see slot at 16h30).
• 2015-10-02: IT Lightning Talk (1st in the list on MOOCs) https://indico.cern.ch/e/ITLT-7

MariaDimou - 2016-01-26