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June 07, Vol.
6, Issue
6
LOOKING INSIDE THREE LECTURE-CAPTURING SYSTEMS: APRESO,
MEDIASITE AND TEGRITY OFFER EASY-TO-USE, RICH-MEDIA
SOLUTIONS THAT KEEP THEIR CUSTOMERS HAPPY
In this issue of
Educational Pathways the focus is on three providers of
lecture-capturing systems, Apreso, Mediasite and Tegrity.
Presented in alphabetical order, each is described in brief,
with links to their websites, along with a case-study-like
example of a significant higher education implementation.
Lecture-capturing systems are being utilized in fully online
and blended courses, as well as for enhancing face-to-face
courses. They are also being utilized for training purposes
in a wide variety of campus applications. The three systems
presented in this issue are all robust and capable of
large-scale usage. Of course, as with any adoption of a
sophisticated educational technology, prospective customers
need to look hard and deep into what solution fits best
within their budget and information/academic technology
support environments. In particular, the pricing of these
systems varies and can sometimes be complex, especially when
trying to estimate adoption rates and scalability factors
that will surely come into play. We hope this issue of
Educational Pathways will help get you started in the right
direction if lecture capturing is on your institution’s or
department’s clear horizon.
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APRESO
As noted on its company website, "Anystream’s
Apreso technology is used by leading institutions of higher
education to automate the process of capturing rich media
lectures and making them available for online review. Its
enterprise design centers on the Apreso Content Manager.
This core command center provides centralized scheduling,
media file management, reporting, monitoring and publishing
of rich media lectures to course management systems and
university portals."
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UMASS LOWELL IMPLEMENTS APRESO IN LARGE LECTURE HALL AND
MORE
In 2004, when poor student performance became
an issue in a large lecture format Calculus 1 class at UMASS
Lowell, the Department of Mathematical Science decided to
videotape the class and provide students with an opportunity
to review the lecture and class visuals in an anytime,
anyplace online format.
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MEDIASITE
As noted inside its company literature,
Mediasite by Sonic Foundry, Inc., out of Madison, Wisconsin,
"is a hardware appliance (referred to as a "box" or a
"recorder") and enterprise server software combination
specifically designed to transform leader-lead instruction
into web-based instruction automatically, utilizing existing
legacy instructional media technologies currently installed
in teaching environments."
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PRODUCTION OF MEDIASITE RICH-MEDIA PRESENTATIONS GROWING AT
CSUSM
"We are still in the early phases (of a wider
campus-wide adoption of Mediasite)," says Linda Scott,
interim director of Academic Technology at CSUSM. "It has
certainly been a major transformation for the people who
have started to use it, and it is spreading. They are
sharing the power of it with their colleagues."
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TEGRITY
Building upon 10 years of research and
development of education technology, Tegrity Campus 2.0
incorporates class capture and delivery, sophisticated
database management, and search and retrieval capabilities
into a web-enabled campus-wide solution.
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TEGRITY WEB-BASED SOLUTION DRIVES UCF FEEDS PROGRAM
The
College of Engineering and Computer Science (CESC) at the
University of Central Florida (UCF) enrolls more than 5,800
students and employs more than 240 faculty. In 1982, through
Florida legislation, it created the Florida Engineering
Education Delivery System (FEEDS) to deliver courses,
primarily at the graduate level, to engineers throughout
Florida. FEEDS delivers engineering and other technical
courses and programs at a distance to students enrolled in
courses offered by 12 colleges and schools of engineering
that are members of a state-wide consortium.
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