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.

In the news

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Sep 29, 2008
Northwestern Health Sciences University featured on ChiroEco.com for enhancing learning options with Mediasite

Sep 23, 2008
Inside Higher Ed highlights University of Wisconsin study showing empirical evidence for impact of lecture capture

Jul 24, 2008
Campus Technology covered Sonic Foundry customer University of Wyoming's student-driven and student-funded decision to implement Mediasite for lecture capture

Recent announcements

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Sep 23, 2008
University of Wisconsin study finds strong undergraduate preference for classes with lecture capture

Jul 11, 2008
A study at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center reveals lecture capture with Mediasite enhances student performance

Mar 18, 2008
Campus campaign speeches webcasted via Mediasite galvanize student interest in presidential primaries

Webinar series

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Study by UW E-Business Institute Reveals Strong Undergraduate Preference for Lecture Capture

Dr. Raj Veeramani and Sandra Bradley of the UW E-Business Institute present why undergraduate students have a strong preference for lecture capture in their courses.
 

Mediasite Deployment – Scaling to Meet Enterprise Webcasting Needs

Sonic Foundry’s Bill Cherne shares best practices for a successful enterprise webcasting initiative, Mediasite deployment configuration options and how to achieve a scalable, high availability webcasting platform.
 

Building the Mediasite Enterprise: How the University of Maryland, Baltimore Developed the Infrastructure and Consensus for Campus-wide Lecture Capture

Thinking of deploying Mediasite campus-wide? Dr. Peter Murray, VP and CIO of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, shares how he developed the infrastructure and consensus for building out the Mediasite enterprise.

Best in Class: St. Georges University Students Share Their Strategies for Webcasting Success

A panel of students and faculty from St. George’s University discuss how the next generation of students is taking webcasting beyond the classroom and using it as a competitive advantage both on and off campus.
 

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

Dr. Russ Scaduto of Penn State Hershey Medical Center 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.
 

Thinking Outside the Box: Using Mediasite to Engage Faculty and Extend University Outreach

From pilot demonstrations to multi-million dollar fund raising, from classroom captures to international collaborations, Jim Jorstad, Director of Educational Technologies, will show you how innovative webcasting applications helped to redraw the traditional big picture communication efforts at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse.
 

Rich Media Instruction - The Top Six Reasons Faculty Choose to Teach Online

York University's Diane Zorn explores how online, rich-media teaching can be easy and effective. Common excuses for not using online, rich-media teaching are debunked and questions about the effective use of rich media are addressed. The presentation empowers participants to create viable online learning environments that facilitate learning, community, and self-sufficiency for students and instructors with minimal time and energy and maximum results.
 

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.

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.

"Webcasting speaker sessions with Mediasite enables us to communicate from wherever we are. Symposium participants can gain the same knowledge shared at the conference whether they are in the same room or across the country."

Janet C. Moore
Chief Learning Officer

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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