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Lecture Capture 101: Everything You Wanted to Know about Lecture Capture but Were Afraid to Ask

Don’t fret. We guarantee you aren’t the last person on the planet to know what lecture capture is. Chances are, you’ve already heard of it by another name: elearning, online classes, distance education or even coursecasting.
9 Questions You Must Ask Before You Start Lecture Capture

What should you expect when you start recording classes and putting them online? Duncan McBogg, Educational Technologist at University of Colorado at Boulder, doesn’t want you to be blind-sided. A year ago, CU-Boulder’s Academic Technology Support group kicked off its first lecture capture pilot and as the project manager, Duncan went looking for answers to his questions, but not just about the technology. Pedagogically, administratively, procedurally, spatially – what resources were out there and where could he find guidance to avoid common missteps?
How to Make Lecture Capture Faculty-Friendly

Are faculty adoption and high-quality online instruction mutually exclusive? Not at Central Michigan University’s Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions. Faculty, IT and AV staff came together to create a painless approach to lecture capture, resulting in more than 2,200 presentations streamed and a landmark 100,000 student views. The key: technology-enabled classrooms, specially-designed facilities and self-serve kiosks that deliver premium production values and a stress-free user experience for both faculty and their student viewers.
Evaluating Lecture Capture Solutions: Understanding Your Total Cost of Ownership

With every investment you make in educational technology, you are buying two things: #1 the concept of change and #2 changing with a particular vendor. Having options is empowering but can also be overwhelming, particularly in this budget climate and as technologies evolve at a rapid pace.
Stream Globally, Save Locally: Using Webcasting and Intelligent Audio-Visual Design to Unite International Employees and Clients

International companies have long embraced technology to help them connect with employees and clients in multiple locations, time zones and countries. But often the results don't live up to the hype - some technology can be resource intensive or difficult to use, the final product may not reflect the quality of your brand and the cost to get everyone that same message at the same time can damper adoption.
“Can you repeat the question?”: Optimizing Classroom Audio for Streaming Online Instruction

In buildings old and new, education technology departments are opting to deploy integrated classroom-based technologies for streaming instruction online. Fueled by desire to remove all barriers for faculty - allowing them to teach as usual with no change to their presentation style - IT, AV and facility design professionals vet multiple classroom technology approaches, including camera angles and operation, lighting considerations and IT distribution issues.
From Promise to Practice: Proven Strategies to Accelerate Your Campus-Wide Online Learning Initiative

The Dutch higher education market is one of the world’s most advanced in lecture capture and Technical University of Delft leads the pack, recording 80 class hours that attract 10,000 views -- each and every week. But the widespread success of this ambitious campus program did not come without the usual challenges. Learn how Leon Huijbers and his intrepid Multimedia Department overcame space, funding and workforce shortages that threatened the capture initiative from the start.
Green Streaming: How Rich Media Can Help Your Organization Achieve Its Sustainability Goals

The current economic climate has placed additional severe financial challenges to higher education institutions, government entities, and corporations just as these organizations are undertaking important sustainability efforts. However the application of powerful “green” communications technologies such as Mediasite provide new opportunities to cut costs and your carbon footprint.
Building the Mediasite Enterprise: How the University of Maryland, Baltimore Developed the Infrastructure and Consensus for Campus-Wide Lecture Capture

While getting everyone - academic leadership, faculty, staff and students - on the same page for any IT initiative can be a daunting task, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has cracked the code for a successful campus-wide lecture capture initiative. In just a few years, this large research university, which is the University of Maryland’s public academic health, human services, and law center, is now mediasiting lectures and other educational content in theirprofessional and graduate schools: Law, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, and the first Dental School in the world. Join Dr.
St. Mary's University School of Law

Mediasite provides a platform for St. Mary's School of Law to offer cutting-edge legal education and extended reach in the legal community. St. Mary’s University School of Law built a courtroom in 1966 to provide students with a real-world environment in which to practice their legal skills. More than 30 years later, the space was outdated, needing a more flexible configuration and a high-tech renovation. A faculty design committee formed and partnered with an audiovisual consulting firm, which presented the committee with three rich media options. The school chose Mediasite by Sonic Foundry for its ease-of-use, talented support personnel and limitless applications. The school recorded multiple three-hour mock trials and is expanding its use of Mediasite to include continuing legal education, a series of curriculum vignettes and a guide to each of the courtroom technologies. Students include their technology experience on their resumes and bring presentation samples to interviews, making themselves more marketable to successful law firms. The school also partners with the State of Texas to webcast Supreme Court oral arguments and state judicial meetings. Mediasite allows St. Mary’s School of Law to offer students a cutting-edge legal education and extend its reach outside classroom walls.