What would motivate a small non-profit to buy an enterprise grade webcasting platform? Could they ever expect to see a return on that kind of investment? And why bother with professional-grade, purpose-built hardware, when software is cheaper and easier, right?
Wrong, at least according to the Energy Center of Wisconsin.
They needed to get their energy efficiency message out to a larger audience - without a big budget and without putting their viewers to sleep with a lot of technical data.
Now that over 1000 campuses have deployed the Mediasite lecture capture platform, we asked faculty, staff and students from across the globe to share their reactions and results. Has teaching, learning and outreach been impacted in positive ways by the use of Mediasite in – and outside of – their classrooms?
Duncan McBogg, Educational Technologist at University of Colorado at Boulder, wrote his Master's Thesis on effective practices for lecture capture. After CU-Boulder's Academic Technology Support group completed its first lecture capture initiative he composed this ebook. Duncan lists questions and resources to consider not just about lecture capture technology, but also how course capture will affect your school pedagogically, administratively, procedurally and spatially.
Having trouble deciding between on-premise, managed services or both? Check out this article by Sonic Foundry from AV Technology's Guide to Streaming Media to learn when to keep it in house, when to look for a streaming services provider and when to go mix and match.
In this excerpt from "The Distance Education and e-Learning Landscape: Videoconferencing, Streaming and Capture Systems for Learning," Alan D. Greenberg of Wainhouse Research discusses the market for streaming video, webcasting and lecture capture, and Sonic Foundry's leadership in terms of revenue, market penetration and product maturity.
Sonic Foundry commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises can realize by implementing the Mediaiste webcasting platform.
Sonic Foundry pulled insights from over three dozen corporate and education case studies to list their top ten criteria for choosing an enterprise webcasting platform.
Ever wish you could ask an expert how to make your live streaming video look better? Here's your chance. This is a rare opportunity for one-on-one Q&A with one of the most well-respected streaming video consultants, writers and instructors around. Even if you aren't a techy or on either side of the camera, we guarantee you'll pick up a few tips that will step up the game of your webcasting team and IT/AV colleagues.
The final in our four-part webinar series brings you the culmination of this educational series. In order to prepare you to integrate virtual event technologies to your event marketing plans, there is one final element to understand. The technology can feel daunting and understanding technical requirements goes beyond the event professional's standard skill set. However, this session will give you the basic understanding of technical requirements to get started.
After this session, you will leave with an understanding of:
Think technology could streamline the manpower it takes to put your courses online? Even automate it? You're in good company.
Tom Kemp and his team at Ashland University thought the same thing, particularly in light of the increasing demand by nontraditional students for on-demand learning.
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