EDUCAUSE QUARTERLY • Number 2 2007 40 Converting an audiotape lecture-capture system to a digital one required close attention to staff, instructor, and student needs By Benoît Burdet, Cédric Bontron, and Pierre-Yves Burgi O nline education encompasses a variety of technologies, one of which is lecture capture—a long-standing practice at the Univer- sity of Geneva. The faculty of arts has recorded most of its lectures on audio- tapes since the 1970s, well before the World Wide Web existed. Moderniza- tion of the recording technologies, how- ever, which until recently consisted of magnetic tapes, was necessary for online courses to efficiently share lectures with off-campus students. This technological upgrade inevita- bly had implications for the audiovisual (A/V) operating staff of librarians and technicians who have traditionally been caretakers of the lecture-capture process. To ease the acceptance of a new, auto- matic lecture-recording system, a close collaboration between the operating staff and IT engineers was established during the project’s conception. We considered this particularly necessary because not all processes can be easily What Can Be Lecture Capture: Automa