Vat Kam Hou 屈鑑濠
Senior Instructor, Department of Computer & Information Science (DCIS)

From Educators to Educators

Academic Video and Lecture Capture Webinars of 2012

Mediasite by Sonic Foundry


A Practical Response to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

If you haven’t heard the hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), you soon will.

These free classes are only offered online and they’re wide open to anyone who wants to sign up. Some of the biggest brands in academia have announced impressive MOOC plans, and a few superstar instructors have jumped in with both feet. Skeptics call MOOCs outliers, but most people agree that whatever happens, MOOCs will make an impact on the way we teach both students and adult learners in the future.

So what does this trend mean for you, your faculty and your campus?

Join our live webinar, hosted by Casey Green of The Campus Computing Project, to participate in a lively discussion on how to take advantage of the MOOC buzz to get your own courses online, right now.

Our panel will discuss:

  • Where do MOOCs fit in the larger online learning ecosystem?
  • What impact will MOOCs, flipped and hybrid classes have on traditional, synchronous face to face education?
  • Can the MOOC model help unlock the online teaching potential for every instructor on your campus right now?
  • How does online instruction and video knowledge fit into the personal learning environment of your existing students? And how will it be captured, distributed and delivered in a post-MOOC world?
  • Presented By:

    Pamela A. Havice

    Pamela A. Havice, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at Clemson University. She has been an integral part of developing a distributed learning environment for the delivery of the Student Affairs/Counselor Education program. Pam’s primary areas of research include distance and distributed learning applications, multicultural issues, and faculty and student development. In her 30 years in higher education, she has published numerous articles, book chapters, professional presentations and an edited book on distance and distributed learning.

  • Presented By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

  • Moderated By:

    Kenneth C. Green

    Kenneth C. Green is the founding director of The Campus Computing Project, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American colleges and universities. The project is widely cited by both campus officials and corporate executives as the definitive source for information about information technology issues affecting American higher education. Green is the author/co-author or editor of a dozen books and published research reports and more than 100 articles and commentaries that have appeared in academic journals and professional publications. Green also serves as the senior research consultant to INSIDE HIGHER ED and developed INSIDE HIGHER ED's surveys of college presidents, financial officers, and admissions officers. In October 2002 Green received the first EDUCAUSE Award for Leadership in Public Policy and Practice. The EDUCAUSE award cites his work in creating The Campus Computing Project and recognizes his "prominence in the arena of national and international technology agendas, and the linking of higher education to those agendas."

     
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The Future of Video in Education: A Vision of Your Campus in 2013 and Beyond

Do you believe the knowledge shared in a classroom is important? Your students do. Meteoric student demand has prompted universities large and small to evaluate how best to harness the power of video in support of their academic missions. Your words, your knowledge - they are the essence of what makes a university. But what’s the best way to capture that knowledge before it evaporates into thin air? Campuses that are wired for video are the digital sources of the future and will be the catalysts for making knowledge transfer prolific. This new student-driven phenomenon is pushing academic video to the forefront of institutions' technology planning initiatives. Learn how leading institutions have already harnessed this power and the unique features of the technology solution they use to make it happen.

Join the decade-long leader in rich video capture as they describe their vision for the future of instructional media on your campus – from virtualized cross-campus content capture to searchable video automatically indexed and tagged – with a Mediasite heartbeat at the center.

  • Presented By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

  • Moderated By:

    John Pollard

    John Pollard, Mediasite Events Program Director, helps organizations understand and execute successful hybrid events. He's planned conferences in both the US and Germany, and been an employee and consultant of some of the largest companies on the planet - like American Airlines, SAP, JPMorgan Chase, and Honeywell (he's worked for some of the smallest companies on the planet too!). Pollard served as the technical product manager for the Mediasite webcasting technology, and now he brings his depth of Mediasite product knowledge to Mediasite Events, where he helps customers and partners alike understand how to leverage webcasting to create more effective hybrid event experiences.

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And We’re Live: What You Need to Know about Live Webcasting and Lecture Capture

Why go live? Brian Smith asks why not. As the Video Operations Supervisor for University of Florida, he’s been doing live streaming on campus for 11 years, with hundreds of live webcasts under his belt. And he believes going live was integral to the success of lecture capture on campus.

He’s overseen high-visibility, live webcasts for everything from homecoming parades to trustee and senate meetings, from commencement to alumni events to presidential search sessions. Even live webcasts with three Supreme Court justices and two governors.

And while the swine flu epidemic kicked off the lecture capture craze over fears that nearly 50,000 students would miss school for over a week, the university continues to go live with more material each day.

Research groups like the Clinical and Translational Science Institute are webcasting so researchers around the state can participate in live briefings, and the College of Medicine is doing online courses, psychiatry grand rounds and family medicine lectures. All live.

Join Brian Smith as he shares what you need to know about live webcasting and synchronous lecture capture:

  • What do you look for in a reliable webcasting system when live is a requirement and failure is not an option?
  • Are there differences between live webcasting from a smart classroom vs. hundreds of campus event venues vs. off campus sites? And what are the best practices for making sure all go live without a hitch?
  • Why is live webcasting a self-fulfilling prophecy, driving more demand to go live? And does social media play a role?
  • Is instructor involvement, and resulting faculty feedback, different for live vs. on-demand webcasting?
  • Who manages the infrastructure, training and support for live webcasting on campus, and what can be automated?
  • How can reporting of both live and on-demand views justify the cost of not just webcasting, but entire courses or events?
  • Presented By:

    Brian Smith

    Brian Smith is the Video Operations Supervisor for Academic Technology and Information Technology at the University of Florida. Brian has been working at UF since 2000, first as a student and then full-time upon graduating with a B.S. in Business Administration in 2002. Brian started live streaming with Real Producer before switching to Windows Media Player and finally Mediasite in 2004.

  • Moderated By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

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Is Room-Based Lecture Capture Better for 21st Century Learning?

In 2009, the University of Michigan Ross School of Business opened the doors to a new era of learning designed to enhance the digital culture that defines student life. Every room in the state-of-the-art 270,000 square foot building – from the large auditoriums to the intimate collaborative spaces – was equipped to support the most seamless use of integrated technologies while becoming a model of student learning efficiencies.

Now integral in every function of the school, room-based lecture capture technology is used not only for recording traditional classroom instruction, but also webcasting interviews with The New York Times, faculty panels and even recruitment with prospective students.

Join Sean Brown, vice president of education at Sonic Foundry, and his guest Edward Adams, chief technology officer at University of Michigan Ross School of Business, for an inside look at the decision-making process that helped the school get more faculty, classes and programs online faster with room-based video streaming.

The presenters will take your questions live, and discuss:

  • How to determine if a room-based webcasting solution for streaming video production and distribution is right for you?
  • Why now is the time to embrace digital media, recording everything from lecture capture and team projects to special events and panel discussions?
  • Ways to best support your school’s internal processes by integrating lecture capture with existing technology infrastructure?
  • Why room-based lecture capture proves easier to use for faculty and other academic staff, and scales faster as a result?
  • What should a streamlined quickstart interface look like, what features should it include for faculty choice and control, and what impact does it have on AV support, staffing and training?

Who will benefit:
Chief information and technology officers, academic deans and department heads, IT directors, facility managers, instructional technologists. Anyone may attend.

  • Presented By:

    Edward Adams

    Ed Adams, Chief Technology Officer, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, is an information systems professional with expertise in emerging technologies, application development, networking technologies, database, computer graphics, business intelligence and support services. Prior to joining the Ross School, Ed was a systems programmer with Unisys Corporation involved in early advances in personal computing and document imaging, an Executive Director with Schlumberger responsible for the software development and international marketing of all CAD software solutions, and was a principle in a successful startup company that developed Just-In-Time production scheduling enterprise software. Ed holds degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Business Information Systems.

  • Presented By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

  • Moderated By:

    JD Solomon

    JD Solomon, Web Seminar Editor, University Business Magazine.

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Are All Classroom Capture Systems the Same?

No one has been thinking strategically about knowledge capture in a classroom as long as John DeAngelo. From flipped classes to sage on the stage, more online instruction is created by faculty in his classrooms than anywhere else.

He’s put almost every lecture capture brand to the test as one of the first college-level CIOs in higher education, personally supervising the acquisition, installation and replacement of some of the largest capture projects in the country.

So if you’ve been thinking that all lecture capture is created equal, he’ll tell you, “Think again.”

After outfitting hundreds of classrooms, and almost a decade-long deep dive into what works, he has created replicable, future-proof academic spaces that maximize the experience of faculty, students and staff.

During this live webinar, you’ll find out why he chose to implement Mediasite at not one, but two different universities on both coasts, and how that decision radically impacted faculty feedback and student outcomes. He will take your questions live, and discuss:

  • Are there meaningful differences in the current lecture capture platforms on the market?
  • What are the most important qualities you should look for when choosing a lecture capture platform? And does that list change as you move from pilot to mass deployment?
  • Does the selection of a particular technology approach to lecture capture have any real impact on faculty and academic support staff?
  • Why is creating an online archive of the knowledge shared in the classroom essential to the success of higher education institutions?
  • Presented By:

    John DeAngelo

    John DeAngelo is director of educational technology services at the University of California San Francisco and former associate dean for information technology in Temple’s Fox School of Business. A pioneer in the integration of technology in education, DeAngelo was named one of Computerworld's 2001 Top 100 IT leaders. As one of the first college-level CIO’s in higher education, he provided technology focused academic leadership at Temple University for 37 years and UCSF for the past year. As co-chair of the Fox School Alter Hall Planning Committee, he helped design and implement all instructional elements of the $80 million, 217,000 square-foot building, which included eight million dollars for AV, computing and telecommunications infrastructure. Currently he is developing a ten-year strategic plan for classroom technology at UCSF and planning the technology infrastructure for a totally wireless anatomy lab and a $150 million annex to UCSF’s new hospital. UCSF is one of the world's leading centers of health sciences research, patient care, and education.

  • Moderated By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

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Video Streaming in Education and Beyond: Instruction, Recruitment, Advising, Orientation and LMS Training

In an era of budget reductions and cost-cutting, cost and efficiency are primary considerations for institutions of higher learning. And yet, the California State University, Fullerton School of Nursing has been able to continue to provide high quality support services to students while reducing the time required for these functions.

The School of Nursing uses video streaming and lecture capture not only for course instruction and distance education, but also for a slew of other campus functions: to develop and capture recruitment sessions for new student cohorts, to advise currently enrolled students, for student and faculty orientation, faculty interviews, guest speakers, and to record brief, targeted modules to orient distance and campus students to the technology used in the program…and the list goes on.

Join Marsha Orr as she reveals the secret to their multi-faceted success. She’ll take your questions live and discuss:

  • Why video-based instruction and video distribution is key to not only successful course instruction, but also multiple other training needs on campus
  • How the department is leveraging lecture capture for LMS training boot camp as they transition to Moodle®
  • Tips for saving time in recruitment, advising and orientation through webcasting
  • Ways to better standardize information provided to students, which in turn enhance students’ perceptions of the quality of support they receive
  • Presented By:

    Marsha Orr

    Marsha Orr joined California State University, Fullerton’s Department of Nursing in 2003 as the Distance Education Faculty Liaison. In this role she works with faculty, staff, students, and web masters in the Distance Education program to assist with technology issues, orient faculty, coordinate staff activities and support faculty in their use of technology. Marsha also teaches in the RN to BSN Distance Nursing program, typically with students in their beginning and final semesters. Prior to joining CSUF, Marsha was the owner of a healthcare consulting firm in Mesa, AZ and her clinical nursing background is in infusion, vascular access, home health and specialized nutrition support. Marsha is a graduate of Indiana State University and Syracuse University. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and is a faculty advisor of the Upsilon Beta Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau, Nursing Honor Society at CSUF. Marsha serves on the Technology Committee of the College of Health.

  • Moderated By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

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Embracing the Opportunities of BYOD in Higher Education Classroom AV Design

Just when you’ve got your AV plan nailed down for smart classrooms and facilities, there’s a new trend taking hold to supplement the learning that goes on in there – a dramatic shift toward BYOD and consumerization. While students and faculty have been using personal devices on campus since the first calculator, they’ve never been as functional, collaborative, personal or ubiquitous as they are now. And students have never been more tech-savvy.

Just when you’ve got your AV plan nailed down for smart classrooms and facilities, there’s a new trend taking hold to supplement the learning that goes on in there – a dramatic shift toward BYOD and consumerization. While students and faculty have been using personal devices on campus since the first calculator, they’ve never been as functional, collaborative, personal or ubiquitous as they are now. And students have never been more tech-savvy. All of this adds up to evolving expectations for flexibility and for mobile devices, which in turn presents new challenges and opportunities for AV and IT leaders in higher education who are rethinking their strategies in order to meet the collaborative needs of anytime, anywhere access that consumer-based, technology-enhanced learning provides. But how do you ensure your BYOD plan works seamlessly with the enterprise classroom technology already in place? What’s the best way to sift through all the products out there to find the right fit for your campus? And what about security?

Join us for a live webinar as Bill Nattress, a certified technology specialist in design and installation, addresses each of these topics as well as:

  • Discusses how institutions can bridge consumerization expectations (I can do this at home, why not here?) with enterprise-class technologies already on the market
  • Gives a real-time demonstration of how personal devices can play nice with enterprise-class technologies
  • Outlines what campuses should be doing to address upgrading their network capacity and performance, including increasing bandwidth, adding access points, boosting their network management capabilities and addressing security concerns
  • Presented By:

    Bill Nattress

    Bill Nattress, CTS-D, CTS-I with Shen Milsom and Wilke, has over 25 total years of project management experience in the design, engineering, installation and integration of audio, video, conferencing and control systems. As an associate principal and project manager at SM&W, he is responsible for developing and maintaining client relationships, maintaining project deliverable schedules, quality control of deliverable documents and drawings and ensuring that the project’s established budget is maintained. His project experience on numerous large scale projects has afforded unique perspectives on how technologies augment various educational curricula whether offered within the traditional perspective or with the latest methods of blended, collaborative, or active learning models. His approach to master planning of these technologies references the needs while also addressing serviceability, standardization, scalability, and evolution.

    Mr. Nattress has been recognized by the industry for a number of his facility designs along with assisting many manufacturers in designing and improving system integration products and applications. He served as the Chair of the Professional Education and Training Committee for InfoComm International and has served as a member of the Committee since 1999. His extensive "hands on" project experience and interest in his profession have fostered practical and creative approaches for audiovisual systems. Mr. Nattress developed the technology concept that lead to construction of Chicago’s Millennium Park Video Fountains using LED video wall technology in a true waterfall environment. This project was awarded first place honors by Archi-Tech Magazine in 2005 for its design excellence.

  • Moderated By:

    Sean Brown

    Sean Brown, Vice President, Sonic Foundry. Sean's core focus is simplifying digital media to improve use and outcomes. Before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002, Sean has 23 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education. Today, Sean also hosts Sonic Foundry's popular, monthly best practices webinar series for higher education.

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