L2L (Live to e-Learning): Building a Consortium-Wide Lecture Capture and Delivery Service Using a Digital Asset Management Platform

The L2L (Live to e-Learning) service is described: the service allows a semi-automatic transformation of live lectures into e-learning activities ready for the publication and delivery through an e-learning platform. The service has been designed to address the needs of a consortium of universities, balancing the requirements of each university and the need to contain costs. A single centralised Digital Asset Management (DAM) system based on the open source platform MediaMosa is used to handle all the multimedia content and metadata. A plug-in provides the integration of the DAM system with the open source learning management system Moodle. The overall architecture is open and modular allowing both the deployment of different service models and the seamless re-use of the digital content in different contexts (e.g.: e-learning platforms, web portals, WebTV).