Services
UZEM (Distance Learning Center) offers digital media production services, tool trainings and technical support to our faculty in developing online courses. UZEM also brings togather the faculty and Institutional Development and Quality Coordination Office staff, which offers pedagogical consultancy, learning assessment expertise.
Course design consultancy:
We encourage our instructors to connect with BİLGİ Development and Quality Coordination Office at any time during the course design stages so the consultants can help instructors to think through pedagogy and offer strategic tools that allow students to engage with course content, the instructor and each other to promote a satisfactory online learning experience.
Media Production:
BİLGİ Media Production Studio located at the santralistanbul Campus provides equipment, work space and software help BİLGİ Faculty in the creation of high quality pre-recorded media for teaching and learning.
Studio production and post-production services also fully supported by UZEM media production specialist, who can help to ensure that you produce the most effective media for your courses or projects.
If you feel that recording media at home is not going to meet your needs, or you require extra levels of support, then you may want to consider filming in the studios.
Resources:
A green screen provides a flexible work environment for chroma key filming, as well as multiple black and white background options.
In addition, the studio houses multiple filmmaking equipment such as a projection, a LED TV, monitor, two SONY cameras, a go-pro, a prompter, a DMX controlled lighting grid with 8 lights installed.
Alternative to Recording in the Studio
Before deciding to use the studio you should first consider whether you could record at home. You can create videos at home using Zoom or your phone, tablet and upload these recordings to your one drive for further share with your students. To do this all you will need is a webcam and mic plus a reasonable broadband connection to upload content.
Reservation:
To reserve a studio recording session please send a request to lms.support@bilgi.edu.tr and state basic details of your media production needs. Our studio supervisor will get in touch with you and review your request and provide timelines and further detail.
Our Studio team can also offer solutions with a variety of resources and recommendations for your recording needs.
Zoom Studio
A zoom studio also located at santralistanbul campus for instructors who need assistance while recording or simply need a sylent space to conduct their courses from. Reservations for the studio taken on weekly bassis via lms.support@bilgi.edu.tr address.
Content Authoring Tools:
There is already a basic level of functionality (H5P) built into BİLGİ Learn (Moodle) which is suitable for to generate rich engaging content. More advanced rich media authoring tools (Camtasia studio, ADOBE Captivate, Articulate Storyline etc )often require significant expertise and UZEM also can help instructors to create content with these tools.
Self Service
H5P is an open-source online toolbox of activities that allows faculty to create and share interactive content easyly in their courses. Interactive videos, interactive presentations, quizzes, interactive timelines etc. H5P.org
Tool Trainings
UZEM runs a short course for Lerning Management System BİLGİ Learn for new BİLGİ instructors via HR office.
Every year at beginning of Fall Semester UZEM organizes series of elearning tools training sessions. These trainings continue during the semesters on one on one bassis. To get a one on one training please open a ticket with UZEM office by sending an email to lms.support@bilgi.edu.tr address.
These trainings are announced via this webpage under workshops and trainings tab and also via UZEM mailings.
Zoom Classes (Useing Zoom in a classroom with remote students)
Our Faculty can teach face to face in a classroom and include their students attending remotely by having them join the Zoom session in real time.