University of Cincinnati

 

The University of Cincinnati, in collaboration with local high schools, has developed the program ‘Engineering Your Future’ that enables high school students to learn about careers in engineering and technology and encourages more students to pursue these fields in colleges and universities.

By using a project-based approach to learning in conjunction with the rich media presentations on Mediasite for teaching content, the partner schools have succeeded in developing a program that provides significant opportunities for students.

"Mediasite was a great platform to enable us to do this. Use of the Mediasite unit on campus has grown here, too, particularly as we look at providing lectures as homework. Think about it this way. If you're an instructor wouldn't you rather spend classroom time doing things that are engaging -- discussions, projects -- and not just providing routine content that can be done through something like Mediasite? So using the Mediasite unit to provide that content is a great benefit that we hope to extend in the future," said Eugene Rutz, academic director at the College of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.