Hennepin County Medical Center expands remote learning through weekly physician conferences via Mediasite. Prior to implementing Mediasite, Hennepin County Medical Center captured visiting lecturers and discussion sessions on VHS tapes which were then transferred to DVDs. Looking to increase access and make information convenient for doctors and nurses with busy schedules, Hennepin County Medical Center turned to rich media web communications.
PartsNow! mediasites training to attract technicians and generate new business opportunities. PartsNow! is the leading supplier of replacement parts to companies specializing in the repair of computer printers. The company offered in-person training courses for service technicians with the goal of lessening returns of parts sold by the company but feared online or multimedia distribution would result in piracy and profit loss. PartsNow!
Riverside Community College mitigates the national nursing shortage using Mediasite. Riverside Community College faced a challenge in accommodating the more than 500 students who applied to its nursing program each year. A large percentage of the college’s classes focused on nursing, demand was increasing for nurses in the workforce and classroom size limited student enrollment to 60 people.
Sandia Laboratories adopts Mediasite to securely share time-sensitive research both internally to employees and externally to scientists and researchers from around the world. Sandia National Laboratories needed to communicate high-security information to thousands of scientists and support staff members in four locations. Travel between locations was difficult and expensive, and the highly technical level of material required quality graphic capabilities.
Villanova enhances engineering education and research with Mediasite. Villanova University College of Engineering needed technology to stream complex graphical elements over the web. It had both a video teleconferencing system and a web streaming system for distance learning, but neither was capable of displaying graphics. Staff members had to manually convert graphics to video signal, a process that degraded the image.