NASA Safety Center Delivers On-Demand Training via Mediasite

Alphaport, Inc., contracted by the NASA Safety Center, delivers courses online via Mediasite vs. face-to-face in a classroom. Turns out webcasting is a no-brainer for them because it created a 4-to-1 ROI in the first year, and that is only expected to go up. Their final ROI is expected to be 8-to-1, saving $5 million of the NASA budget that can go to support other initiatives like future space missions. 

The center’s STEP program delivers technical training online to about 1,000 government employees and 1,000 contractors. The STEP curriculum contains 150 online courses, and that continues to grow. About one-third of STEP courses have used Mediasite technology. 

“Video capturing technology has helped us spend our development dollars more wisely, deliver more courses in a shorter period of time and take advantage of instructional resources that exist in the agency," said John Marinaro, director of technical excellence at the NASA Safety Center.

Currently, 45 online courses represent 527 instructional hours in the STEP Safety and Mission Assurance curriculum. And 650 learners took those courses which resulted in 2,000 online course completions and nearly 12,000 online learning hours.