Integrating Lecture Recordings with Social Networks

This paper describes an approach to integrate lecture recordings, based on the virtPresenter framework, within social networks. A lot of social networks have recently begun to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) for external applications, allowing access to users' profile information and their friendship relations. The project "social virtPresenter" combines the resulting social graph with the existing lecture recordings. Thus, "social virtPresenter" provides a basis for a new collaborative multimedia learning process.