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List of institutions linking to lecture capture guides from Nordmann et al. (2020). University of Aberystwyth, UK University of Auckland, New Zealand University of Birmingham University of Cape Town South Africa University of Cambridge City University London, UK University of Derby University of Edinburgh, UK Hull York Medical School UK University of Glasgow (external link pending) Imperial College London, UK Royal Holloway, University of London, UK London School of Economics, UK University of Sheffield

It’s now clear that we’ll be running our small-group teaching remotely for the first semester in addition to the lectures (there will be additional f2f sessions, but core teaching will be online and I’ll talk about that in a later post).

This week I finished working through the assessment information for both my Level 1 course and my MSc Research Methods courses. The latter was fairly quick as that course was already delivered both online and offline and the assessments (R worksheets, pre-registration, quant report write-up) lend themselves easily to online assessment.

The problem with starting your first blog with a pithy quote is that you feel pressured to do it for every one. I thought I was going to have to start this blog by admitting that I hadn’t actually done much pivot work this week - I spent the first half of the week working on assessment stuff that has nothing to do with the change in delivery and is just part of the usual yearly updates and tweaks.

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference - Reinhold Niebuhr Make a nice list, calm your pants where you can, and always have wine in the fridge - Emily Nordmann

This blog is an excerpt of a keynote speech I gave at eduhub days 2020. When I first started talking about lecture capture research, I was so concerned with showing academics that lecture capture wasn’t about to bring an end to academia as we know it that I put all of my focus on that link between attendance and recording use.