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Lessons in Video live and then archived for later viewing, using Barix products. In addition, students can go to the school’s home page and watch the president’s monthly address as an on-demand video. “It’s a different way to see him communicate,” says Kathleen Oliveri, lead IT consultant. “He records it in a studio or at one of our buildings.” Last year, the university used web-streaming technology in the hiring process. A selection committee conducted videoconferences with eight candidates throughout the country for a vice president position. Later the committee went into a classroom and connected with each candidate for about an hour. Because the position for which they were hiring requires a lot of public speaking, they were able to vet the candidates properly. Only the three top contenders were invited to campus. “We were able to save the school money and determine who was the best fit,” says Oliveri. The “U” in YouTube Since March, YouTube eDu (www.YouTube.coM/eDu) haS offered lectures from more than 100 colleges, including MIT, Yale, and UCLA, for anyone to view. “Twenty-first-century schooling is about walls coming down,” says obadiah Greenberg, strategic partner manager for YouTube. “what better way than through video and YouTube?” any accredited two- or four-year institution can participate, as long as it can coordinate the implementation across campus. YouTube provides statistics such as who is viewing the content, what region they live in, and which portions they are watching. for benjamin hubbard, manager of webcast.berkeley at the University of California, Berkeley, posting on YouTube eDu was a no-brainer. “it’s a great way to extend reach and open access. as a public university, that’s our mission.” he says it’s an easy way to get started in online video and avoid webhosting costs. berkeley is also involved in another video-related effort. called opencast Matterhorn, it’s an international project to create a communal webcasting platform that will record and distribute educational content. The goal is to bring together programmers and educational technology experts from universities around the world to develop open-source software to automate recording and posting academic content. it is scheduled to be operational by summer 2010. Other Innovative Uses for Web Streaming Most colleges and universities already have technology-enhanced classrooms with a computer, projector, sound system, DVD player, and a podium. At the very least, most rooms are projector-enabled. Thanks to this standardized setup and easy-to-use tools, institutions are using web streaming in a multitude of ways. At Clemson University (S.C.), associate professor Pamela Havice uses MediaSite for her education graduate students’ digital portfolios. Students record their theories about student services and higher ed, and their presentations are posted online and burned onto a CD. Nick Laudato, associate director of instructional technology at “This assignment gives them practice in public speaking and lets the University of Pittsburgh, uses video for professional developthem highlight these skills for future employers,” she says. ment, such as teaching instructors how to use Blackboard. His sesA professor at the University of Pittsburgh (Pa.) uses Panopto sions are broadcast in real time and then turned into podcasts. CourseCast to annotate student presentations. He uses the softAlthough lecture capture will never replace good teaching, it can ware’s note-taking feature to type in comments that are synchro- certainly extend its reach. “I think once the technology is widely nized with the recording. That way each student gets personalized available and used for lecture capture, there will be organic growth feedback at the appropriate place in his or her presentation. of how the technology can be used for other purposes,” says Stern’s The nursing students at Midland College Padmanabhan. “Innovative uses of the (Texas) do simulations to practice hospital technology for purposes other than its iniprocedures. They plan to use CourseCast to tial intention start small and then get adrecord these sessions. opted by the mainstream. The technology aberdeen captioning, www.abercap.com At the Harrison School of Pharmacy, part should be made available for anyone and automatic Sync Technologies, of Auburn University (Ala.), fourth-year should have no boundaries on the uses, as www.automaticsync.com students use Starbak technology to record long as it does not put an overhead on the barix, www.barix.com presentations on diseases and drugs that are resources.” caption iT, www.captionit.net made available online for the general pubLCU’s Mahan suggests that the techlic. The pharmacy students also prepare for Docsoft, www.docsoft.com nology staff become partners with the facpractical exams by recording consultations echo360, www.echo360.com ulty in using this equipment. “We make with mock patients. sure that we do things in a high-quality MediaPoinTe, www.mediapointe.com The school also houses a wellness clinic way, not just because something is trendy. Panopto, panopto.com and pharmacy for on-campus employees. As If you provide quality and focus on stuSection 508, www.section508.gov part of its new partnership with the Alabama dent success, it will prevail. We’ve been Sonic foundry, www.sonicfoundry.com Insurance Board to provide medications and blessed that most of what we do helps us health information for state employees, the Starbak, www.starbak.com to continually improve.” school’s fourth- and fifth-year students will TechSmith, www.techsmith.com record sessions on such topics as smoking Ellen Ullman is a freelance editor and writer in Tegrity, www.tegrity.com cessation and weight control. Fairfield, Conn. resources 34 | October 2009 universitybusiness.com http://www.YouTube.com/edu http://www.abercap.com http://www.automaticsync.com http://www.barix.com http://www.captionit.net http://www.docsoft.com http://www.echo360.com http://www.mediapointe.com http://www.panopto.com http://www.section508.gov http://www.sonicfoundry.com http://www.starbak.com http://www.techsmith.com http://www.tegrity.com http://www.universitybusiness.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - October 2009

University Business - October 2009
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Behind the News
Viewpoint
Financial Aid
Lessons in Video
Dining Halls of Distinction
Lost in Space
Independent Outlook
Internet Tech
End Note

University Business - October 2009