Academic exec

Sarietjie Musgrave

Before Mediasite it was a bit like waiting for Superman. But now we can send Superman to all schools and any classroom within South Africa and wider Africa 24/7 and do it cost effectively.
Just Flip It: From the Front Lines of the Flipped Classroom

It’s easy to picture a traditional classroom – a lecturing professor with rows of students watching, listening and taking notes. But that age-old model is turning a cartwheel in some of the best classrooms in academia. And chances are someone in your department is already flipping their classroom.
San Antonio College Students Sound Off About What Works in Lecture Capture

Students at San Antonio College in Texas are happier and more successful now that they’ve got their hands on lecture capture technology. Four professors tested out Mediasite in their classrooms during a pilot program, and student response was unanimous. Students said:
Unleash Your Organization in the Age of Video

We live in an era where video is being live-streamed, recorded and is rapidly becoming our primary source for learning something new. Leading corporations and education institutions have amazing opportunities to harness the power of video to advance their message, improve collaboration, expand business opportunities and educate the masses.
Gwen Noteborn

To us, Mediasite is a tool to actually engage your students, to have them sort their time in the way they want to. It's tailor made for them. Before Mediasite there were a lot of students missing a lot of material and we couldn't offer them the flexibility we can now.
Expanding E-Learning in the UK: How the University of London Computer Centre Offers Cost-Effective Academic Video Solutions via Mediasite

There’s no question that the appetite for academic video is growing. The hours of content recorded, archived and viewed have exploded in the past year and it’s not expected to slow down anytime soon. Universities are placing a bigger emphasis on academic capture and management in their strategic roadmaps to boost student success and classroom efficiency. But how to find the most cost-effective approach that will allow them to scale their programs quickly?
Mediasiting Your MOOC: How UW La Crosse Transformed Online Learning Modules into a Massive Open Online Course

The seed for a math MOOC at UW La Crosse was planted in 2007 long before the term became mainstream, when Professor Robert Hoar and his colleagues created a large collection of online learning modules and webcasts to help students enhance their math skills. They gathered data, tracked viewing habits and assessed student performance. What they found was that students showed marked improvement in their math skills over time.
Mary Fanelli Ayala

Mediasite technology has greatly improved the pedagogy of online, hybrid, and even face-to-face classes. High-quality, user-friendly lecture capture means that students can tune in live or later to the actual teaching presence of our best professors. Face-to-face students can ‘attend’ when they’re sick without sharing the latest bug with the whole class, and everyone can review lectures and explanations before a test.
From Flipped Classroom to Dual Enrollment: How ENMU Achieved Campus-Wide Capture in 12 Months

While Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) is the third largest school in the state, it covers more ground than any other university. The entire eastern part of the state, to be exact. In the dean’s quest to make education accessible to the region’s traditional, non-traditional and dual-enrollment students (high school students taking college courses), she had to think outside the traditional classroom experience.
University of the Free State, South Africa, Solves an Education Crisis with Mediasite Webcasts

South Africa values education and sees it as the most powerful weapon to change the world. That’s easier said than done, though. South Africa is ranked 132 out of 144 countries by the World Economic Forum. A lack of quality teachers and severe home conditions in rural areas has resulted in some South African provinces having 80% of schools classified as failing.