NASA Safety Center

The NASA Safety Center has 22 web based courses, and from those, it's received about 33,000 hours of use and 1,900 graduates. 

Now, picture that happening in a traditional classroom without the Mediasite technology. The NASA Safety Center’s Risk Management course has traditionally been taught three times a year in a classroom with 30 students. That would cost $1 million to conduct enough sessions to put 1,000 civil servants through the eight hour class. It would take a minimum of 33 sessions and 11 years to train all 1,000 learners. In this format, there would only be a handful of graduates and about 1,000 hours of training at the most.

"But only if we were able to make the investment that it would have taken to get the instructor around to all the students and get the students to the instructor," said John Marinaro, director of technical excellence. 

Enter Mediasite. With Mediasite's webcasting technology, the safety center can provide the same training in technically one day, but realistically everyone can get through the virtual training in one month. 

“What we’ve done over the past year, year-and-a-half is to use Mediasite to capture live courses that were being held at the various locations which we often experienced challenges with travel and training dollars,” Marinaro said. 

Mediasite allows NASA to provide training on-demand to its learners when their time permits, not when travel and training dollars permit.