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Last month, an event took place in Minneapolis that could very well change the face of meetings to come. The Event Camp Twin Cities program centered on four words – social, innovation, collaboration, experimentation. And with more than 550 people participating online and over 100 people...
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Ah, the day after. With the conference behind you and kudos pouring in, it is tempting to simply archive the old website and turn your attention to next year. But wait.
Whether you webcasted live to a virtual audience or captured just a few keynotes for attendees to watch on-demand, there’s...
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What should you expect when you start recording classes and putting them online? Duncan McBogg, Educational Technologist at University of Colorado at Boulder, doesn’t want you to be blind-sided.
A year ago, CU-Boulder’s Academic Technology Support group kicked off its first lecture capture pilot...
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Often corporate meeting planners and event production companies hear the phrase “virtual meeting” or “online conference” and run the other way. They think it threatens the face-to-face meeting that’s been their bread and butter for so long.
The irony? Planners and producers who run toward hybrid...
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As a meeting planner, how much do you really need to know about technology to take your current conference online?
Erin Handel, CMP/CMM, thinks you’ll be surprised by the answer. A meeting planner herself, she knows how intimidating the constantly changing event technology landscape can be for...
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Are faculty adoption and high-quality online instruction mutually exclusive? Not at Central Michigan University’s Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions. Faculty, IT and AV staff came together to create a painless approach to lecture capture, resulting in more than 2,200...
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While university budgets globally wither, spending on educational technology is alive and well. From IT teams to instructional technologists, academic staff are disproportionately successful at garnering funds for lecture capture initiatives amidst an overall environment of financial cuts. ...
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With every investment you make in educational technology, you are buying two things: #1 the concept of change and #2 changing with a particular vendor. Having options is empowering but can also be overwhelming, particularly in this budget climate and as technologies evolve at a rapid pace....
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International companies have long embraced technology to help them connect with employees and clients in multiple locations, time zones and countries. But often the results don't live up to the hype - some technology can be resource intensive or difficult to use, the final product may not reflect...
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The nursing crisis in the United States continues to intensify, with a projected shortage of 500,000 nurses by 2025. Compounding the problem? Recent major global disasters, humanitarian aid, pandemics and aging baby boomers, and the fact that nursing colleges across the country are finding it...
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Want to double, even triple the number of attendee leads from your next conference? Webcasting your speakers and putting their presentations online can achieve just that, and RTC Group has the stats to prove it.
This past fall, in response to the ongoing budget and travel constraints of their...
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Many colleges and universities contemplate and execute classroom streaming strategies at a departmental or college-wide level. But the University of Tennessee Engineering Services department was among the first to attack academic streaming at a university system-wide level from the start. The...
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"We will never be able to afford that kind of technology.""Who's going to learn to run this technology?""How do we get started?""People need to get into the same room together for them to really understand this info.""We can just get on the phone and send the PPT around.""Once they get my...
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How is one of the smallest community colleges in the state of Washington with one of the largest service districts - 4,000 students across 4,500 square miles - finding the money, time and political will to launch new programs at a time like this?
Russell Beard of Big Bend Community College...