VMCAnalytic: Developing a Collaborative Video Analysis Tool for Education Faculty and Practicing Educators

Abstract

This paper describes the genesis, design and prototype development of the VMCAnalytic, a repository-based video annotation and analysis tool for education. The VMCAnalytic is a flexible, extensible analytic tool that is unique in its integration into an open source repository architecture to transform a resource discovery environment into an interactive collaborative where practicing teachers and faculty researchers can analyze and annotate videos to support a range of needs from longitudinal research to improving individual teaching performance. This paper presents an overview of the design and functionality of the VMCAnalytic, which is a key component of the NSF-funded Video Mosaic Collaborative (VMC), together with a description of the underlying repository service architecture. The paper also describes the synergistic collaboration between digital library technologists and education researchers to build a research environment that can integrate with the VMCAnalytic tool to create a digital collaboration space. The prototype tool is available in as of January 2010 at the VMC website: www.videomosaic.org.

Students’ Mathematical Reasoning, Communication, and Language Representations: A Video-Narrative Analysis

“…The VMC also stores selected analyses of elements of the database and offers users the opportunity to create video narratives describing and analyzing students' learning processes. These stored video-narratives have been used for research, instruction, and as an assessment tool; and are linked to scholarly publications (Agnew et al, 2010;Maher & Yankelewitz, 2017). Two examples of VMCAnalytics are described in the next section of this report.…”

“…As demonstrated by researchers in the learning sciences, collaborative design with computer tools can foster productive collaborative learning processes (Hmelo-Silver, 2012; Kafai, Ching, & Marshall, 1997;Kolodner et al, 2003). Thus, the VMCAnalytics display a researcher's (or team of researchers') selection segments of video-taped learning events; a definition of them; the annotation of each element of the event; and linkages among them (Agnew, Mills, & Maher, 2010). VMCAnalytics are constructed to serve particular purposes, such as showing the variety of notations, representations (including language and non-language forms), strategies and/or models used by students in mathematical problem solving.…”

Çevrimiçi Dersler için Video Analitik Aracının Tasarlanması ve Geliştirilmesi

“…Kullanıcıların, eklenen videolar ile etkileşimleri Google sunucularında kaydedilmekte, Google Formlar ile entegre çalışan sistemde, farklı türdeki soru tiplerine verilen cevaplar da tutulabilmektedir (Chorianopoulos vd., 2014;Chorianopoulos, Leftheriotis, & Gkonela, 2011). VMCAnalytic, öğretmen ve araştırmacıların, bireysel öğretme becerilerini ve araştırma yeteneklerini geliştirebilme amacıyla tasarlanmış bir işbirliğine dayalı video not alma ve analiz aracıdır (Agnew, Mills, & Maher, 2010). Diğer araçlardan farklı olarak; videoyu oluşturan bölümler arasında, ontoloji tabanlı ilişkinin kurulması ile, video nesneleri arasında anlamsal ilişkilerin otomatik olarak kurulmasına da olanak vermektedir.…”

The eBethArké Syriac digital library: a case study

“…Whereas RUcore initially launched with a capability of preserving and making available still images, scanned documents and manuscripts, the platform evolved to support sound, moving images, and varied scientific research datasets as well. Notable examples of this expansion include the Video Mosaic Collaborative (VMC, accessible at http://videomosaic.org), an interactive collaboration interface designed to enable educators to utilize classroom videos to make discoveries in math education (Agnew, Mills, Maher, 2010).…”