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6/07

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.

George Lorenzo
Editor and Publisher MORE

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." MORE

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. MORE

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." MORE

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." MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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