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  • The Best Gear for Small Crews with Big Webcasts

    There’s nothing inherently wrong with the one-camera shoot for a streaming video webcast. But sometimes the high-profile nature of your speakers, or your viewers, is going to demand a bit more production polish and visual variety to keep them engaged.

    While most of us don’t have a full...

  • A Practical Response to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

    If you haven’t heard the hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), you soon will.

    These free classes are only offered online and they’re wide open to anyone who wants to sign up. Some of the biggest brands in academia have announced impressive MOOC plans, and a few superstar...

  • Instruction, Recruitment, Advising, Orientation and LMS Training

    In an era of budget reductions and cost-cutting, cost and efficiency are primary considerations for institutions of higher learning. And yet, the California State University, Fullerton School of Nursing has been able to continue to provide high quality support services to students while reducing...

  • Copyright Basics for Online Presentations

    Ever find an image on the web and wonder if you can use it in a presentation?
    Have you shown a YouTube video in a course that is also being streamed online?
    Are you familiar with the TEACH Act?
    Do you know what “fair use” really means for you, your instructors and presenters or...

  • How to Market Your Online Event

    The majority of marketers plan to increase spending on online, virtual and hybrid events. Yet, most meeting and marketing professionals still employ the “If We Build It, They Will Come” approach to promoting these new meeting formats.

    Think that gets results? If only it did. Simply...

  • Are All Classroom Capture Systems the Same?

    No one has been thinking strategically about knowledge capture in a classroom as long as John DeAngelo. From flipped classes to sage on the stage, more online instruction is created by faculty in his classrooms than anywhere else.

    He’s put almost every lecture capture brand to the test as...

  • How to Facilitate Live Online Training, Techniques for Adult Learning Engagement

    The concept of just-in-time training is not new. Live online training is used to reach people across time and distance. But how do you keep those viewers engaged? How do you make sure they are with you, and will come back for more? And how do you keep your sanity in the process?

    After two...

  • John Pollard

    You’ve heard of hybrid events. You know that they can help you expand the reach of your event by including those who simply cannot attend. What should those remote attendees experience? What is the easiest and most reliable way to make that happen?

    Of course, hybrid event technology does...

  • Is room-based lecture capture better for 21st century learning?

    In 2009, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business opened the doors to a new era of learning designed to enhance the digital culture that defines student life. Every room in the state-of-the-art 270,000 square foot building – from the large auditoriums to the intimate collaborative...

  • Terry Macpherson

    How did a university with minimal budget, one full time staffer and three distributed campuses, including a distance learning programme with 16,000 enrolled students, get to 2500 online presentations with 131,085 views?

    Ask a Massey University professor, instructional designer and...

  • Tahira Endean

    When you hear “hybrid event” you might think the key to success is what happens online – the speakers, streaming video, social media and the like.

    But the world’s best event producers know different. The most successful hybrid events begin months before registration opens, and most of the...

  • The Many Flavors of Hybrid Events

    One of the best ways to understand hybrid events is to see what others are doing. Luckily, Mediasite Events has hundreds from which to draw. Join Shane Tracy, Director of Event Services, and John Pollard, Event Services Program Director, as they walk through some of the most common types of...

  • And We’re Live: What You Need to Know about Live Webcasting and Lecture Capture

    Why go live? Brian Smith asks why not. As the Video Operations Supervisor for University of Florida, he’s been doing live streaming on campus for 11 years, with hundreds of live webcasts under his belt. And he believes going live was integral to the success of lecture capture on campus.

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  • Improving Student Outcomes With Lecture Capture Technology

    Dr. Bob van den Brand simply wants students to pay more attention in class. It’s such a small thing, really. But the impact can be huge.

    Engaged students get better grades and increase the pass rate for his courses. A better pass rate results in a decreased number of students who drop out...

  • Kristen Zurovitch

    Mediasite is going mobile - leading the way with live streaming to iPads, iPhones, iPods and more. From course lectures and online training to executive communications and special events, Mediasite 6 empowers learners everywhere with live and on-demand rich media streamed to their favorite...