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, retrieving the cassette after class, duplicating the recording and eventually placing the recording in a library).
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.
Getting academic leadership, faculty, staff and students on the same page for any IT initiative can be a daunting task, but the University of Maryland, Baltimore Dental School knows exactly what to do to create a successful campus-wide lecture capture initiative.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center operates a robust campus-wide educational environment with Mediasite as its core component. Used by all departments for academic, clinical, outreach and in-service education, Mediasite has changed the educational landscape of the campus.
In the past five years, Massey University has gone from filming lectures and extensive post production, to synchronizing the video with PowerPoint slides, to a fully automated lecture capture infrastructure via Mediasite.
North Carolina State University uses Mediasite for its distance education program. Ease-of-use is one reason faculty are eager to use it to record and enhance their distance education courses. The fact that students feel like they are actually in the classroom is another.
The North Hennepin Community College had three major problems on its campus in 2009. It wanted to improve student satisfaction, performance and retention and completion rates.
So Larry Schaaf, CIO and Dean of Academic and Technology Services, and his staff searched for a faculty-friendly technology-based solution. For him, the answer was simple.
Bob van den Brand, an adjunct associated professor at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management, simply wants students to pay more attention in class. But that's much easier said than done. How do you capture the attention of, as he calls it, the YouTube Generation? With Mediasite, that's how.