A Review of Lecture Capture Technology and Its Usage in Higher Education

The COVID-19 pandemic recently introduced significant changes to formal education, and it is difficult to estimate the long-lasting effects it might have on the educational systems worldwide. Without compromise, educational institutions had to switch from live classes, where teachers and students had physical contact, to online classes practically overnight. In this situation, lecture capture or the recordings of live lectures have gained much attention. Even though they have already been in use for many years in university teaching, massive open online courses, flipped classrooms, hybrid, and online classroom environments, it is now that their qualities became very appealing. This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the lecture capture landscape, including different formats of lecture capture, free and commercial players that can create or play lecture captures, the reported results related to using lecture capture, and some additional thoughts on how their usage may affect higher education. In this paper, the broad landscape of lecture capture related technologies, applications, usage outcomes, and trends have been summarized, to provide a review over this domain of rising importance.