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When Maya Tutughamiarso, a graduate student in organic chemistry at Goethe-University Frankfurt in Germany first thought about how to teach a chemistry class at an Indonesian high school, she hoped she could use videoconferencing. There was only one problem—internet connectivity in...
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University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education faced a multi-level challenge – how to provide culturally responsible professional development with relevant content to schools across New Zealand via two programs: Digital Pathways and Te Whanau Maioh. One more challenge, Te Whanau Maioh is a...
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During a study of over 40 million five-minute videos, Visible Measures found that within the first 10 seconds, 20% of the audience left. By 30 seconds 33% were gone and at the one minute mark a full 44% had moved on.
That means you better grab your audience quickly. But at Anchorage...
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What sounds better to you?
45 training courses via classroom instruction for nearly $3 million
OR
45 online training courses for $672,800
That’s the dramatic difference in cost for Alphaport, Inc., contracted by the NASA Safety Center, to deliver courses online via Mediasite...
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San Antonio College is the largest single campus community college in Texas with over 25,000 students.
With the downturn of the economy and a hiring freeze, the college faced a dilemma of how to serve its booming enrollment. Students would call and receive busy signals or complain about...
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Our population is aging at a faster rate than ever before. There is and will continue to be a growing need for professional caregivers who are skilled at providing care for people at the end of life.
Since 2007 Hospice Education Network (HEN) has provided online education and training to...
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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...
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Due to the high cost of healthcare in the Netherlands, many patients are getting less quality time with their doctors. Enter Care Portal Rijnmond, which is quickly becoming the place to find the health and welfare information in the Rijnmond region. The portal is a secure website where...
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There’s an increased demand for the use of technology in education in Singapore, especially for web-based communication. So, the SingHealth Academy began exploring different mixes of teaching and learning tools for medical educators and administrators and decided to use webcasting...
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While preparing to teach a high school chemistry class, Maya Tutughamiarso, a graduate student at Goethe University, ran into an unusual problem – she was having difficulty connecting with her students. Not in the typical “teenager vs. adult” kind of way. It was more in the “we’re on separate...
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Our population is aging at a faster rate than ever before. There is and will continue to be a growing need for professional caregivers who are skilled at providing care for people at the end of life.
Since 2007 Hospice Education Network (HEN) has provided online education and training to...
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Queensland University of Technology has come a long way.
Dennis Clark, applications programmer for the Australian university, can clearly remember the days of painstakingly recording the audio from lectures on cassettes (which meant equipping a lecture hall with a cassette recorder,...
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The Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is making the country a little more financial savvy with its monthly Family Financial Security Webinar Series.
With a grant from the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology Beckner Endowment, the center hosts free...
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Five years ago, after years of teaching to a group of students the old-fashioned way, Cooke Real Estate School in Florida faced a major challenge – the local real estate market had dried up.
Using videoconferencing to teach to 120 locations across Florida helped, but they quickly...
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Mediasite has become an essential educational technology for Memphis City Schools (MCS), the nation’s 21st largest school district.
So far Mediasite has proven its value in the special events department. Last year when President Obama delivered the commencement address at Booker T....