I presented a quick example of embedding multiple choice questions into a video using the Edpuzzle online system at the recent meeting at Cardiff. I didn't make a presentation, but just did a basic "show and tell."
The main comments I got were about integration with online course management systems such as moodle What I was told was that there is a common system to integrate different educational technologies together called SCORM. When I had a quick look at the web page for SCORM, I see it was invented in the USA, because of the many different educational technologies. The technology education market is huge and worth many billions of dollars. This explains why the government got involved in the creation of standards to get educational software to talk together. It also stops "vendor lock in."
SCORM is something the technology people at the University would have to install, so that may take sometime. Interestingly enough the MapleTA system I use doesn't use SCORM to talk to Moodle.
One person (a national teaching fellow), at the meeting, told me that she used a similar (non free system) to check that students had watched the videos, when she was teaching using the flipped classroom. This system integrated with Moodle via SCORM. I now see that a SCORM plugin is already installed in Moodle at Plymouth University.
Why is this important for students? It makes it easier for the students to log into the system, because with SCORM, they could in principle use the single sign in to login.
