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Next-gen education initiative

With our higher education Mediasite community now topping 600 colleges and universities, Sonic Foundry is highlighting customer stories that exemplify the convergence of technology and education. Through webinars, news and speaking engagements, Mediasite users around the globe are sharing their best practices for using lecture capture to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve academic performance.

News

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Feb 26, 2010

Live Webinar—Benefits of System-Wide Lecture Capture: How the University of Tennessee Saved Time, Cut Costs and Increased Service

Feb 19, 2010

Mediasite by Sonic Foundry Selected to Webcast eLearning 2010 Conference

For the first time ITC eLearning conference will stream general sessions
Feb 02, 2010

Campus Technology

Big Bend CC Grows Video Presence with Webcasting
Jan 26, 2010

Live Webinar: Getting the Buy-In and Budget to Launch Hybrid Courses Right Now

Jan 21, 2010

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative 2010 Invites Virtual Audience to Live Sessions Streamed With Mediasite

For the first time, all captured sessions will be publicly available to a web audience
Jan 20, 2010

Big Bend Community College Adopts Mediasite for More Cost-Effective Online Learning

Faculty adoption and student reach skyrocket as the school’s Mediasite program, fueled largely by grants, continues to grow in the New Year

Webinar series

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Benefits of System-Wide Lecture Capture: How the University of Tennessee Saved Time, Cut Costs and Increased Service
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Benefits of System-Wide Lecture Capture: How the University of Tennessee Saved Time, Cut Costs and Increased Service

University of Tennessee's Associate CIO, Bob Hillhouse, shares a reproducible roadmap of how the UT System has combined multiple technologies including Mediasite into a single, faculty-friendly application that resulted in a seamless, system-wide streaming service.


Getting the Buy-In and Budget to Launch Hybrid Courses Right Now
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Getting the Buy-In and Budget to Launch Hybrid Courses Right Now

Russell Beard of Big Bend Community College shows you how 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 – found the money, time and political will to launch a webcasting program.


“Can you repeat the question?”: Optimizing Classroom Audio for Streaming Online Instruction
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“Can you repeat the question?”: Optimizing Classroom Audio for Streaming Online Instruction

Randy Tritz of Shen Milsom Wilke takes your audio recording questions and outline best practices, key considerations and the latest standards to ensure the best possible audio for lecture capture.
 


Awards

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  • Villanova University's College of Engineering received a Learning Impact Leadership Award by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. By archiving classes with Mediasite, Villanova raised average GPAs, increased student satisfaction, lowered the overall class dropout rate, and in one particular year, completely eliminated failures from in-class students.

Association partnerships

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Campus Technology is a monthly publication focusing exclusively on the use of technology across all areas of higher education. The Campus Technology annual conference offers a blueprint for adapting to the new demands of teaching and learning, and explores how educators are coping with the ever-increasing demands on their resources, skills and time.

"The capturing of presentations for reference and review is essential to our conference attendees. Sonic Foundry has recorded selected sessions from our annual summer conferences for years; it's a great way to share conference highlights widely, and a wonderful resource for those who want to review session content in depth.

Mary Grush
Conference Director
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the number one source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. Each year, The Chronicle Technology Forum and The Executive Leadership Forum bring together the most influential leaders in American higher education including college presidents, academic leaders, business officers and technology administrators.

"These conferences provide a nuanced view of how technology is changing academe, and how academe must change with technology. Participants have the opportunity to learn from and collaborate with technology visionaries. Capturing those sessions with Mediasite allows us to create an enduring catalog of information from academic leaders, which can be drawn upon time and time again."

Phil Semas
Editor in Chief
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference attracts a unique intersection of IT leaders and professionals in higher education. The conference promotes networking and learning with others who use, manage, or lead information technology in higher education.

"One of the most valuable things about this conference is the ability to exchange ideas, and streaming sessions live with Mediasite will help us make that possible. Whether individuals are on-site or off, they can get information, become engaged, and identify potential collaborators. We appreciate Sonic Foundry's support as both An EDUCAUSE Gold Partner and our webcasting service since 2004, and we're anticipating that these enhancements will provide greater accessibility and a deeper learning experience for those attending the conference and those watching on campus."

Julie K. Little
Interim Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative
The Sloan Consortium helps learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs. The Sloan-C International Symposium brings together individuals interested in the technological aspects of online learning and the Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks provides the latest information to improve asynchronous learning.

"Creating a blended conference, and leveraging technologies like Mediasite, complements the work we do in online education. By embedding the Mediasite Player with Silverlight we created a complete interactive conference platform that is perfect for fostering community and increasing engagement with between our on-site and virtual audiences. We value the partnership with Sonic Foundry and look forward to working with them to continuously improve our conference offerings."

John Bourne
Executive Director
University Business is a monthly publication for higher ed leaders and covers current and emerging trends in all areas of university and college management. It's EduComm conference is specially designed to address the needs of college and university educational technology, financial academic decision-makers and facilities planners, highlighting solutions for using the latest technology in the classroom, across the campus and through distance learning.

"Over the five years Sonic Foundry has been an EduComm sponsor, the company has proven to be an invaluable partner. The ability to view speaker sessions online and on-demand means the knowledge shared here will be enduring. We thank Sonic Foundry for being with us from the beginning."

Tim Goral
Conference Program Chair
Customer feedback
  • "Mediasite can also help you transition into higher education. Early in college you're trying to figure out how to take these classes and be efficient as a student. Taking notes takes a lot of time, and you miss some things. With Mediasite you can just watch, listen and absorb the information as it comes and not have to worry whether you're going to remember this later."
    Marcus Curley
    Recent Graduate and Member of the Central Student Technology Committee
    University of Wyoming

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