The mission of the Design and Media Unit of ACC is to promote the use of multimedia tools for interactive and innovative teaching and learning at AUB. The Design and Media team offers consultation and support to faculty members seeking to create instructional material for their courses. The unit introduces cutting edge technologies to the AUB community, thus maintaining AUB's leading role in the effective use of multimedia tools in teaching, learning, and research in Lebanon and in the Middle East.
ACC helps faculty members to create digital content for their courses. This includes recording, editing, and converting audio and video material into digital format. ACC also helps faculty members to create learning objects, such as animations, simulations and self-running lectures.
Design and Media Services
All work done by the Design and Media Unit will abide by copyright regulations, and all multimedia support must be requested at least 48 hours in advance.
Learning Objects
Creating Learning Objects, such as simulations and animations for teaching
Creating high quality magnified pictures or short videos using a digital microscope
Recording Lectures
Recording audio and video of lectures, presentations, and other educational activities for online or classroom usage
Recording screen activity for lectures, tutorials, etc...
Material Conversion
Editing and converting audio and video material from analog into digital format for online or classroom usage
Scanning images and texts from magazines, books, or newspapers into pictures or editable documents using OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Multimedia Applications
Training in a wide range of multimedia applications through individual sessions as well as providing complete tutorials for all applications
Web Design
Training in creating personal/departmental websites through workshops or custom sessions
Webconferencing
Supplying the technology and support needed for live meetings or presentations over the Internet
