International 2011 e-Learning Grant using openEyA: Automated Lecture Capture System

2011 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

ICTP’s Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) congratulates the winners of its 2011 Grant programme “International e-Learning Grant using openEyA“. The Grant aims to support the automated production of on-line scientific content (via “webinars”) and e-learning and distance education (via “web lectures”).

This grant is meant to contribute to capacity building and development by implementing academic webcasting using openEyA. The grantees have agreed to publish recorded lectures on the web and distribute them freely in digital form for educational purposes.

The five Winners, selected by the SDU Team, will receive all USB essentials for implementing a set of the openEyA automated recording system (worth about 200 Euros in hardware each), including USB High-Definition Webcams and omni-directional microphones.

The five grantees selected for 2011 are:

• Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Fisica Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, http://www.unal.edu.co
• Institute of Cybernetics, Mathematics & Physics (ICIMAF), Habana, Cuba, http://www.icmf.inf.cu/
• The Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Informatics, Mongolia, http://www.mas.ac.mn/en/
• School of Physics and Technology, V.N.Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, http://www-htuni.univer.kharkov.ua
• Vietnam Auger Training Laboratory (VATLY), Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology(INST), Vietnam, http://www.inst.gov.vn/Vatly/Vatly.htm

Congratulations to the openEyA Winners and our sincere thanks goes also to all Grant submissions received! We shall start to deliver all USB essentials by Courier to the above Winners Institutions at the earliest.

The SDU Team

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EyA (“Enhance your Audience”) is an innovative automated audio/video/slides recording system, developed by SDU to archive and share scientific lectures and talks carried out using digital presentations (PPT, PDF, animations, etc) as well as traditional chalkboards or whiteboards found in classrooms. The EyA system has these main features:

• no human intervention during recording and post-processing;
• scalable architecture;
• no special requirements for the speaker or lecturer;
• Slides/images taken from screen captures or any Linux USB webcam (HD);
• low-cost implementation and fully automated;
• low-bandwidth friendly features (recordings saved as Zips).

For more details about openEyA see www.openeya.org
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