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.
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 impossible to cover both the demand for classroom space and the demand from industry.
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 challenge of providing webcasting services for five campuses, 250 smart classrooms, board meetings and countless sporting events across the entire state was an initiative that required strong research, planning, and breakthrough educational technology choices like Mediasite to be successful.
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 will show you how.
In buildings old and new, education technology departments are opting to deploy integrated classroom-based technologies for streaming instruction online. Fueled by desire to remove all barriers for faculty - allowing them to teach as usual with no change to their presentation style - IT, AV and facility design professionals vet multiple classroom technology approaches, including camera angles and operation, lighting considerations and IT distribution issues.
Washington State University's main campus is currently experiencing what the New York Times called perhaps the largest college outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus. More than 2,000 students report symptoms of swine flu, which has led the entire Washington State system to take measures to avoid the spread of the disease between and beyond campuses.
In the last 12 months, the number of Mediasite-equipped rooms, hours of operation and webcast viewership have exploded. Large and small universities, corporations and government agencies are capturing, distributing - and having to manage - more online presentation content than ever before, often beyond what they ever imagined.
But as demand for capture increases and IT and AV environments become increasingly complex, what are the options and best practices for deploying appliance-based webcasting platforms? And how do you ensure optimal integration and reliability?
Skeptical about teaching undergraduate courses online? Unconvinced that some instruction, like math, can effectively be taught in an entirely online environment?
Webcasting technology is obviously one important element for recording a multimedia presentation that looks and sounds great. But there are several key ingredients, tools and techniques you must consider that, when mixed properly, will make a big impact in the quality of the webcast you ultimately serve up.
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