Western New Mexico University Transforms Distance Learning with Mediasite Join
June 12 2017 - 6:00AM
With multiple rural satellite campuses for a distributed student
body -- including a high percentage of non-traditional students --
Western New Mexico University relies heavily on video and web
conferencing for instruction. Using Mediasite Join by Sonic
Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO) the trusted global leader for video
creation and management solutions, the university cost-effectively
connects its instructors and students in real time, capturing
collaborative classrooms and turning them into rich, searchable
video on-demand.
Building on the market-leading Mediasite Video Platform,
Mediasite Join extends the value of unified communications by
seamlessly integrating with leading conference services. The
university has been using Mediasite since 2010 and added Mediasite
Join to its suite of solutions two years ago. Now, Mediasite Join
is available campus-wide. Faculty report better student pass rates
since implementing Mediasite Join and the university reaps the
benefits of being able to integrate its existing Polycom and Zoom
video conferencing systems into the solution.
“We provide instruction to a very rural area, covering a vast
area of New Mexico. Because we need to meet synchronously with
students, regardless of location, our video conferencing program is
very big, and lecture capture is important. That’s where Mediasite
Join came in,” said April Hanson, Video Communications Manager,
WNMU IT. “We are already paying a lot of money for our video
conferencing systems, and I needed a way to leverage what we
already had. Being able to plug in Polycom and Zoom into our
existing Mediasite Video Platform was huge.”
Courses that use video conference are considered face-to-face.
For on-site students physically in classrooms, the university uses
Mediasite for automated lecture capture. Students attend the
traditional classroom, and the on-demand Mediasite recordings are
available as a study tool in the university’s Canvas learning
management system.
Students enrolled in WNMU’s online program work on their own
time, and faculty either record their lectures via Mediasite in
their classrooms or from their desktops. Those lectures are
immediately uploaded to Canvas and available for review
on-demand.
“Ever since professors started using Mediasite for lecture
capture, they’ve reported increased improvement on student grades.
The Mediasite analytics are important to faculty members, because
they are able to see what students are watching and what portions
of the video are most popular. They’re able to tailor their
teaching accordingly,” Hanson said.
“Mediasite Join has been very easy to implement and introduce to
faculty, and there is a great demand for it. They don’t even know
they’re using Mediasite in classrooms with recorders – they just
click a button, and their class is recorded,” she continued. “Using
video during collaborative classes and meetings is extremely
valuable, and students love it. At first, like any new technology,
faculty worried they’d be replaced by the recordings. They quickly
found that course quality improved with Mediasite, and students
asked for the video recordings.”
“A recent Wainhouse Research report, State of Collaborative
Education and eLearning 2017 – in which Sonic Foundry is recognized
as a leader-- cites that the convergence of distance and online
education, brick-and-mortar education and consumerization of
educational technology is resulting in a great demand from both
faculty and students for the use of collaborative classroom
technology,” said Gary Weis, CEO, Sonic Foundry. “Western New
Mexico University is ahead of the curve, recognizing the importance
of capturing and preserving the collaboration that occurs over
video conferencing.”
Trusted by more than 1,500 colleges and universities, the
Mediasite Video Platform quickly and cost-effectively automates the
capture, management, delivery and search of live and on-demand
videos for campus events, lecture capture and flipped learning.
About Western New Mexico UniversityWestern New
Mexico University has served the people of the state of New Mexico
and its surrounding areas as a comprehensive, regional, rural,
public coeducational university since 1893 and serves a student
body diverse in age, culture, language and ethnic
background.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry is the trusted global leader for video capture,
management and streaming solutions. Trusted by educational
institutions, corporations and government entities, Mediasite Video
Platform quickly and cost-effectively automates the capture,
management, delivery and search of live and on-demand streaming
videos and rich media. Mediasite transforms communications,
training, education and events for more than 4,300 customers in
over 65 countries. Leading analyst research firms Aragon,
Forrester, Wainhouse and Frost & Sullivan recognize Sonic
Foundry as a leader in enterprise video, webcasting and lecture
capture.
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respective owners.
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