Vidéoscop

Created in 1978, Université Nancy 2 - VIDEOSCOP is the audio-visual and multimedia research and production department of Université Nancy 2. It works with a team of academics and audio-visual / multimedia professionals as well as a high performance equipment. VIDEOSCOP specialises in experimenting , adapting and producing new multimedia supports and broadcasting technologies for the acquisition of knowledge. VIDEOSCOP has developed solid competencies in the field of education and New Technologies.

VIDEOSCOP is playing a major role in three activities sectors :

• Audio-visual and multimedia training programs on a national and European level : we have a catalogue of more than 150 pedagogical titles (languages, human sciences, economics, mathematics… ) dedicated to a continuing education public and a higher education public as well as SMEs, for either on-site or distance learning.
• Learning and teaching devices that make use of new technologies such as satellite, interactive television, videoconference, Internet… VIDEOSCOP elaborates and experiments innovative learning devices within the frame of European programs :
• Television Programs for the broadcasting of university knowledge : VIDEOSCOP collaborates with academics and TV channels. We are in charge of the TV program "Les amphis de france 5".

Throughout the many projects undertaken, VIDEOSCOP has developed a broad range of skills and know-how :

• Engineering of learning and teaching devices that make use multimedia technologies (how to adapt the content of the courses to different media)
  • elaboration of specifications and projects
  • bid for national and European call for tender
  • realisation of innovative devices
  • experimentation of innovative devices

• Conception
  • learning and teaching devices that make use of multimedia technologies
  • training materials

• Production
  • projects management
  • quotations and financing plans
  • copyright management

• Technologies
  • Development of web site
  • Development of CD ROM, DVD ROM
  • Broadcasting (videoconference, hertzian, etc.)
  • Video
  • 3D synthesis pictures
  • Computer Aided Publishing

Experience in co-operation at local, regional, national and trans-national level

AUTOFOD: Collaboration with the AFPA (national organisation for adult vocational training), the CESI (Centre d'Etudes Supérieures Industrielles), Algora (association for the promotion of ICT integration in professional training) and the University of Nantes for the production of a series of 205 audiovisual resources for training trainers in the pedagogical use of ICT as part of a project co-funded by the European Social Fund (ADAPT), the French Education and Employment ministries and the regional councils of Lorraine and Pays de la Loire. http://www.autofod.com/ (Vidéos available on the Profession Formateur channel http://www.canal-u.education.fr)

Canal-U: Vidéoscop is also an active partner in Canal-U, the French universities’ educational Web TV portal (www.canal-u.education.fr) and is responsible for three channels: Eco-Gestion (business and management studies), les Amphis (a selection of programmes from the terrestrial broadcast service) and Profession Formateur, a channel devoted to teacher training.

Campus numériques: Vidéoscop is closely involved in the French national virtual campus programme, designing and producing on-line resources for a number of e-learning consortia: CANEGE (economics and business studies) http://www.canege.org, CIAN (convergence of the multimedia and audiovisual sectors) http://www.uhb.fr/cian, FORSE (educational science) http://www.sciencedu.org, LANGUES-U (languages) http://www.langues-u.org, LUNO (Open University of the Lorraine region) http://www.luno-edu.net

COMPETICE: Design and production of a skills assessment tool for all those involved in the integration of ICT in Higher Education (decision makers, project managers, teachers, administrative and technical support staff, learners). The tool, commissioned by the French Education ministry in support of the Campus Numériques initiative and designed in collaboration with a group of educational-ICT specialists, offers both free access to multimedia resources and interactive paths according to profile, enabling users to create a portrait of the skills they possess in relation to those required by the project in which they are involved. http://www.educnet.education.fr/competice.

COST€R: Partner in the Socrates Minerva COST€R project. The partnership, coordinated by ATiT (BE) and including K.U.Leuven Audiovisual Services (BE) and UOC-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES), produced and designed an intelligent calculation tool for costing the production of educational multimedia http://www.coster.ws

eLene-TT: Coordinator of the e-Learning network for Teacher Training eLearning 2004 project (2004 - 3043 / 001 - 001 ELE-ELEB12) which aims to provide guidelines, tools and resources for Europe-wide teacher training via a Virtual learning Resource centre and specifically designed teacher training actions. Partners: CANEGE (FR), Politecnico di Milano-Centro METID (IT), University of Bremen-ZMML (DE), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (ES), University of Helsinki (FI), Helsinki University of Technology (FI), Umeå University (SE), Utrecht University-IVLOS Insitute (NL), Uniwersytetu Marii Curie Sklodowskiej (PL). http://www.elene-tt.net/

EPCO: Project coordinator for the recently completed Socrates Lingua II project ‘Ecouter pour Comprendre’, a methodology for oral comprehension fully integrating the use of audio and video materials in four languages (French, Polish, Hungarian and Czech) in partnership with Uniwersytetu Marii Curie Sklodowskiej (PL), Ostravska Univerzità (HU), Szegedi Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar (CZ). http://epc.univ-nancy2.fr/

Haut Débit: Regional experiment in the pedagogical use of video streaming over the local broadband network for the Regional Council of Lorraine, testing different video formats and codecs according to available bandwidth and analysing the reactions of students to the integration of video in on-line resources.

HandiWeb: Inter-university collaboration between four HE establishments in Lorraine (Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1, Université Nancy 2, INPL engineering school and Université de Metz) to design and create a common website to improve the information available to disabled students, compatible with WAI standards. http://handiuniv.u-nancy.fr/

Les Amphis de france 5: Vidéoscop is the executive producer of this daily HE programme broadcast on the national terrestrial educational channel france 5. ‘Les Amphis’ mobilises over fifty educational and audiovisual production establishments from France, Belgium and Quebec, providing audiovisual materials in a wide range of subject areas. The TV programme is part of a wider learning architecture supported by a Web server on which can be found exercises, corrections and supplementary material (www.amphis.education.fr). Vidéoscop’s role involves not only coordinating the service on a national level (programme scheduling, contact with viewers,…) but also designing and producing broadcast quality video courses ( recent productions include series on ‘The Earth and the Solar System’, ‘Mathematics’, ‘Quality Management’ and ‘The Philosophy of Science’).

LSF: Website consisting of a video database of specialist sign language terms for academic subjects to help hearing–impaired students access higher education. Winner of the Unesco/CNRS Argos Denis Diderot prize in 2002 http://www.lsf.education.fr

SCENARIsup: Vidéoscop is a partner in the national experimentation of SCENARIsup, the adaptation for HE of a Learning Content Management System developed by the Université de Technologie de Compiegne.

SEVAQ (self-evaluation for quality) is a Leonardo Da Vinci programme, supported by the European Community, with partners from Norway, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, France and Belgium, coordinated by the Belgian ODL network. http://www.sevaq.com

VideoAktiv: Partner in Socrates Minerva project (9114169-CP-1-2004-UK-MINERVA-M) with the objective of developing a collaborative staff development workshop programme to raise local and trans-national awareness of the potential of visual literacies such as digital video and audio in HE. Coordinated by Glasgow Caledonian University(UK). Partners: ATiT (Audiovisual Technologies, Informatics and Telecommunications, BE), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL), Université Nancy 2-Vidéoscop (FR), University of the Basque Country (ES), University of Groningen (NL). http://www.videoaktiv.org/

VITRA : VIRTUAL TRAINING in glass-making. This project aim to craftsmen, enterprises and artistes to develop the competitive field of glass-making in Europe via an e-learning platform with pedagogical, audiovisual resources and teacher training. The project involve 5 European partners from Czech Republic, Italy, Sweden and France. http://www.idverre.net/vitra/

Other European projects in which Vidéoscop has been involved as partner or coordinator include:

• BIC (Blueprint for Interactive Classrooms): Telematics Applications http://bic.avnet.kuleuven.be/
• Eurostep: project making use of the OLYMPUS satellite, in partnership with the French Space Agency
• DELTA: Multimedia Teleschool project, live interactive television broadcasts for distance learning
• Endoscopia: Coordinator for TEMPUS project

XYLOLINGUA: Coordinator for INFO 2000 projects

• ‘7Acteurs pour la Qualité’, ‘Nouvelle Maintenance PME’, ‘Mutaction’: three complete training programmes for SMEs (European Social Fund programmes ADAPT and OBJECTIF 4)

" Les Amphis de france 5 "

This project is a typical example of the know-how and skills VIDEOSCOP can mobilise on a project.

• Producer of 'Les Amphis de france 5', a TV program that mobilises 55 educational and audio-visual production establishments from France, Belgium and Canada : VIDEOSCOP is broadcasting one daily hour of higher education courses on the TV channel france 5 (450 hours of broadcast in 2005).
• Engineering of the general learning and teaching architecture : 'Les Amphis de france 5' is a device that associates TV broadcast to a web server. Exercises, the corrections of the exercises, written courses, as well as video are available on the web site. The content of the web site and part of the TV broadcast can be available on a CD-ROM or a DVD ROM as well.
• Conception and production of training materials, adaptation of course content to different media : VIDEOSCOP designed the content of the web site, as well as the scenario of the video courses. VIDEOSCOP produced part of the video courses, and realised the whole web site.

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