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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Jun 17, 2009

Online Course at the Wharton School Reaches More Than 50,000 Students and Alumni via Mediasite

Online course on Economic and Financial Crisis delivered to desktops around the world
Jun 16, 2009

Pro AV

University AV: Doubling Down in the Downturn
Jun 16, 2009

Pro AV

PRO AV Blueprint for University AV: How three universities turned over whole buildings to instructional technology in order to boost their image, attract students, and improve education.
Jun 16, 2009

Sonic Foundry Introduces Mediasite 5.1 for Advanced Lecture Capture

Latest enhancements include lecture capture’s first fully Silverlight-based Players, automated closed captioning and streamlined course scheduling
May 18, 2009

Michelle Obama’s Only University Commencement Address Streamed Live via Mediasite

Sonic Foundry’s webcasting services link University of California Merced’s milestone event to the world
Apr 23, 2009

Mediasite Helps Laid Off Workers Earn Degrees and Retrain for the Changing Job Market

Adult students in University of Wisconsin Platteville extension program use webcasting to balance class and work

Webinar series

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Growth Amidst the Drought: Using Webcasting to Increase Enrollment in Challenging Economic Times

Octavio Heredia, Associate Director-Extended Education, shares how webcasting has helped Arizona State University grow its distance education, continuing education and professional development programs.


Recession-Proof Lecture Capture: Turn Your Classroom into Cash with Mediasite

Sean O'Donnell, Director of Distance Education at Villanova University's College of Engineering, shares the strategies he used to launch an online lecture program that generates over $1 million in gross tuition, without a single tuition or fee increase


From Promise to Practice: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Your Campus-Wide Online Learning Initiative

Leon Huijbers, Manager of the Campus Congress Centre and Multimedia Department at Technical University of Delft, discusses his successful strategies for rolling out a campus-wide online learning initiative.
 


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.

"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