Deployment and analysis of lecture recording in engineering education

In this paper we will present a case study and an analysis conducted to evaluate the use of lecture learning as a helpful companion to the classical teaching. This effort is done around the Opencast Matterhorn software, a system that is able to record classroom presentations and publish them on a LMS automatically, without the intervention of a technician dedicated to it. So we delivered a university-wide call asking for teachers to be recorded and then the teachers opted in to have they lectures published in the university's LMS. As a result of this call we installed 36 lecture halls though the different faculties, and we record the lectures of 53 teachers, with a result of 1400 lectures recorded during the 2012–2013 academic year, and the first semester of the 2013–2014 year, with a peak of 150 hours/week. Using this data we have made an analysis aimed to find if there is any positive influence on grading by the use of this technology and we have found an increment up to a 9% in students' marks.