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Researchers realize the importance of video data in capturing the learning process in classroom or other settings. But managing the large quantities of data needed to reach generalizable conclusions has proven difficult.  Some studies of curriculum impact, for example, may produce hundreds of hours of video during a single year. The process of accessing, transcribing, and analyzing these data on videotape often makes such studies too labor intensive.

WCER's Digital Insight project is setting the stage for the next generation of advanced research systems.

Headed by Chris Thorn, the Digital Insight project has brought together compressed digital video, large-scale online storage, and software tools to help education researchers manage nearly overwhelming quantities of video data. 

An integrated software tool called Transana allows for the transcription, analysis, and management of video data. Available for no charge in both single-user and collaborative multi-user versions, Transana brings together video and audio data, an actively-linked transcript, and a data management environment in a single application. For more information, see http://www.transana.org.