Using Mediasite to Enhance Student Performance: Findings from Penn State Hershey Medical Center

MADISON, Wis. - June 20, 2008 - Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, will host a webinar featuring Dr. Russ Scaduto from Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Med-students: enthusiastic, ambitious, successful and adaptable, they're also expected to have an unprecedented amount of information at their fingertips. Dr. Russ Scaduto, Director of Education Technology for the Penn State College of Medicine and the Milton Hershey Medical Center, says lecture capture via Mediasite, with its anytime, anywhere access to information, helps the students become masters of time-management and enhance their performance. Join Dr. Scaduto for this webinar as he demonstrates how, in the span of one academic year, a leading academic health center built an educational-technology infrastructure around Mediasite that significantly impacted student learning.

The presentation will include:

• Student performance data, showing correlations between use of Mediasite-recorded lectures and student performance
• A description of how Mediasite recordings are used daily by medical students 
• Best practices adopted at Penn State Hershey for using Mediasite to transform lectures into enduring educational assets, including podcasts and rich media webcasts

Featured presenter:
Dr. Russ Scaduto, Director of Education Technology, is the strategic planner for using technology in education for Penn State Hershey. He oversees the video conferencing and webcasting facilities and, along with his technical team, maintains the A/V and computer systems used in conference and training rooms throughout the Hershey campus. Dr. Scaduto holds a Masters degree in Physiology and a Doctorate in Biochemistry and has published numerous research articles. As an Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, he also teaches in the medical school curriculum.

Moderator: Sean Brown, VP of Education, Sonic Foundry

When: Live webinar Tuesday, June 24 at 11 a.m. Central. Also available on demand.
Where: To register for this complimentary online webinar, visit: www.sonicfoundry.com/register.