Sessions - Full Agenda - Mediasite Experience

Jean Merenda, Director Office of Educational Technology & Jarrett Shafer, Mediasite Administrator, East Carolina University

ECU has been using Mediasite for over 10 years and hopped on the My Mediasite and Mediasite Desktop Recorder bandwagon on its first release. Initially, MDR was used by a limited group of faculty who were already recording their classes and were familiar with lecture capture. Over the years, as more faculty became interested, Jean and Jarrett developed procedures allowing them to scale use among not only faculty and staff, but also students. Jean shares how the College of Allied Health streamlines and standardizes their capture services through the use of faculty request forms, new faculty training and more.  Jarrett, as the university’s Mediasite Administrator, shares how he distributes procedures to other colleges and departments who do not have dedicated Instructional Technology Consultants to steer them in the right path as well as working with students required to use My Mediasite for class assignments.

Brandon Ventresca, Broadcast Coordinator, Ontario Hospital Association | Dan DeRubeis, President, DeRubeis Development

Ontario Hospital Association uses Mediasite to deliver educational programs to approximately 145 public hospitals that operate over 225 sites across Ontario. Using the Mediasite API and custom development services, OHA customized its Mediasite deployment to streamline their live broadcast monitoring, improve viewership tracking and ultimately enhance the online video experience for its users. In this session Brandon shares OHA’s experience with the Mediasite API including achievements, challenges and  best practices.

Dian Webbink, Manager E-learning and Digital learning Innovation, Medical Centre Leeuwarden | Michael Hebben, Partner & Innovation Specialist, MadLogic

In the spring of 2016 the Medical Centre Leeuwarden set to work using a new Electronic  Health Record (EHR) platform from Epic Systems.The traditional method of training their medical workforce to comply with the new software was through 24 hours of classroom training. Convinced that this kind of training wouldn’t benefit medical staff, Dian and Michael pursued a new, more customized training alternative. Mediasite video combined with a game-based assesment tool (LetsGetWiser) allows staff to access hundreds of short video tutorials that incorporate gamification. The tutorials and games are easy to produce, offer quick micro-learning and  deliver the right information just when it’s needed.

Tom Irons, VP of Field Sales Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Mediasite Analytics provide the data to see not only who is watching and when, but also the tools that give you deeper insight into your Mediasite system. Ferdinand demonstrates:
– How to create, customize and use presentation reports
– The difference between catalog, user, presenter and authoring reports and when to use them
– How to schedule recurring reports to automatically send results to others
– How to monitor Mediasite activity through storage reports, download stats and server stats
– How to manage the health of your Mediasite with various system reports

Terry Wirkus, Distance Education Scheduling Coordinator, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

More more than five years, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse has used My Mediasite, and it has proved to be a major factor in student success. Anyone at the school can use My Mediasite – from capturing lectures in nearly every teaching space on campus to fostering student collaboration and sharing knowledge with traditional and online learners. Terry shares his insights and best practices to help you achieve similar success.

Asa Kelley, Media Technician, Bloomsburg University

Bloomsburg University recently completed enhancements to several facilities including its main TV Studios, two classrooms with integrated Mediasite Recorders and three large lecture halls with dedicated connections for portable Mediasite Recorders. Asa explores the equipment, administrative workflows and TouchLink GUI designs that provide simple user workflows and make the magic happen. (Also plan to visit Asa at his companion Show & Share session  for deeper insights into system diagrams, tutorials and a hands-on demo.

Mike Willis, Director of Media Services, University of Dubuque

In 2016, the University of Dubuque completed construction on a science wing dedicated to UD’s new physician assistant program. Eighteen Mediasite recorders were included in the project, supporting traditional classrooms as well as exam rooms and labs. The challenge: render the recorders invisible to faculty and students, both in terms of installation and operation. Mike shares the rationale behind the goal and how it was accomplished.

Andrew Reinke, Senior Hosting Systems Administrator, Sonic Foundry

As a Mediasite Video Cloud customer, this session provides everything you need to know about getting the most from your hosted video investment and ensuring you’re prepared for your upcoming Mediasite 7.2 upgrade. Andrew provides the insight you need to:
– Understand the Mediasite Video Cloud roadmap and upgrade timelines
– Plan for and monitor capacity of large events
– Monitor and manage your storage consumption (including encoding best practices)
– Request and use vanity domains
– Secure your entire site using HTTPS

Mark Northover, Associate Head of Centre & Jin Hong, Multimedia Producer, Auckland Unviersity of Technology

My Mediasite desktop recording has had enthusiastic use at AUT given a limited deployment of Mediasite Recorders. One of the emerging areas of use if for video submissions of student assessments. For courses ranging from a dozen to 600 students, assessments are submitted as video diaries and individual or group presentations. In this session, Mark and Jin share:
• What is driving the uptake of video submissions
• The student experience
• The staff experience
• How this move into more media-rich student activity and assessment fits within AUT’s digital strategy

Eric Wunderlin, Systems Engineer, Carlson School of Management – University of Minnesota

Using the speech to text service included in Watson Developer Cloud by IBM, Eric was able to create a closed captioning service for Mediasite. Eric shares his experiment with Watson and how he connected it with Mediasite’s audio transcription service.

Derrick Freeman, Program Manager, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

When it comes to delivering online continuing education, creating content is straightforward. However, organizing content within your LMS is a bigger challenge. During this session, you’ll learn great tips, best practices and lessons learned for creating and managing your LMS. Derrick shares how to manage users, speakers, objectives, post-tests, support resources and user certificates and how he uses reports to gather details about users and experiences. After this session you’ll be able to:
• Identify valuable media delivery tips
• Recommend pre-defined global fields for web viewers
• Recommend customizable fields for each educational module, webcast, or activity
• Recognize the importance of flexible e-commerce options
• Understand options for testing, evaluation and managing users and credits
• Describe information that can be included in downloadable reports

Ferdinand Bergen, Network Solutions Engineer, Sonic Foundry

Mediasite includes several tools to help monitor and improve the performance and efficiency of your system. Get to know these tools and services and when to use them:
– The new Mediasite Health Monitor
– Various system administrator reports and logging details
– Mediasite system workers
– Mediasite Configuration Editor
– Mediasite Monitoring Service (MMS)

Evan Guyer, Sr. Video Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corp – Aerospace Systems

You don’t need a staff of more than one or much space to produce a high-quality, professional looking webcast. Using remote PTZ cameras and the appropriate equipment purchases, you can setup within a small footprint and webcast from anywhere. Trust me. I do it all the time, and I’ll share my tips and tricks for success.

Dharmesh Sampat, Executive VP of Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Effective video portals are more than just content repositories. They’re also need to support employees’ and learners’ day-to-day knowledge sharing and collaboration by allowing them to easily share, discuss and find video information. Learn about:

• New Mediasite Showcase enhancements including commenting and playlists
• Integrating Mediasite into Microsoft SharePoint as a Web Part
• Possible new Showcase applications

Jaco van der Worp, Learning & Development Professional, Landsteiner Instituut | Jeroen Krouwels, Director Business Development & Innovation, Noordhoff Publishers

Landsteiner Institute needed a way to provide its hospital staff timely and practical training as they perform their daily tasks. It also needs to effectively share content with partner hospitals. With Noordoff Publishers’ Health Visuals, powered by Mediasite, they provide short on-demand video instructions at the moment of need. The library of instructional videos are easy to access, clear and deliver the right information in the right context. Jaco and Jeroen share how Landsteiner uses Health Visuals to support just-in-time learning along with My Mediasite to create, upload and share their own custom videos. They’ll also discuss lessons learned and future plans for delivering medical education and workplace learning.  

Mark Weiler, Senior Sales Engineer, Sonic Foundry

With Mediasite’s wealth of content capture, upload and import options, it’s important to have a solid content storage and retention strategy. This workshop provides best practices to balance content quality with storage and bandwidth consumption.
– Mediasite 7 encoding and adaptive streaming impacts
– Picking the best encoding settings and creating custom stream groups
– Determining storage usage through Mediasite reports
– Establishing quotas and adjusting retention practices

Group discussion facilitated by Jean Merenda, Director Office of Educational Technology, East Carolina University & Terry Wirkus, Distance Education Scheduling Coordinator, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

Jean and Terry shared their schools’ My Mediasite strategies in previous sessions. But we know there are many more Unleashers harnessing the power of faculty- and student-generated content with My Mediasite. Let’s learn from each other! Jean and Terry lead collaborative discussion where participants share their organization’s My Mediasite use, best practices and challenges. Join us as we exchange the common requests we get and and how we handle them, such as:
– I want to… (the need)
– How do I…? (the best tool or method to satisfy the need)
– Where is it? (how do I access the tool so I can use it)
– I need HELP! (how is support handled?)

Dave Bunten, Application Administrator, University of Colorado – Boulder

Mediasite provides a rich API by which you can customize your use of the system. David shares how he used Mediasite’s API to gather and retain analytics data automatically. During the session, he’ll cover API basics, Mediasite-specific API setup, implementation, challenges faced and any questions you may have.

Matt Breneman, Director of Multimedia Services, Marshall B. Ketchum University | Jeroen Krouwels, Director Business Development and Innovation, Noordhoff Publishers | Todd Hutchings, Distance Learning Consultant

Join leading medical education professionals for a candid discussion of the opportunities, challenges and future plans and trends their organizations face for delivering quality healthcare training.

Tom Irons, VP of Field Sales Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Mediasite provides a variety of streaming options, which means plenty of (potentially confusing) encoding choices. Learn how to choose the right combination to capture quality content while taking your users’ bandwidth and your organization’s storage constraints into account. Learn:
– The fundamentals of encoding
– How to pick the best encoding settings and create custom stream groups based on different capture scenarios
– The impact of adaptive streaming

Elizabeth Collins, Senior VP North America Sales & Dharmesh Sampat, Senior Vice President Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Take a tour of Mediasite Catch, the newest room capture solution to combine the reliability of scheduling automation with the simplicity of podium-installed software. Catch makes it easy and affordable to offer course capture in any instructor’s classroom, even those with limited educational technology.

Dan DeRubeis, President, DeRubeis Development

Mediasite’s APIs provide the flexibility to extend Mediasite beyond its out-of-the box capabilities. Dan shows what’s possible through a variety of custom-developed solutions he has created for Mediasite customers including: secure registration with custom catalogs, LMS-style curriculum with certification/accreditation, live chat and more.

Group discussion facilitated by Rob Lipps, Executive VP Sales, Sonic Foundry

If your organization or institution provides health-related training or CME, don’t miss this facilitated roundtable discussion. Rob will share Mediasite’s future direction in support of medical education, but is also interested in learning what’s important to you. This open dialog is your opportunity to share your organization’s future plans, needs and challenges.

Austen Portz, Director of Hardware Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Your Mediasite deployment is growing. Now’s the time to streamline your Recorder management and upgrade practices. Austen will equip you with the best practices and tools to save you time and streamline your efforts. Learn about:
– Current Mediasite Recorder versions and compatibility with your video platform
– Recorder upgrade best practices
– Using the Recorder restore process
– Managing Recorders through remote access
– And more

Dharmesh Sampat, Executive VP Engineering, Sonic Foundry

Take a tour of the updated My Mediasite, its fresh new look, consistent mobile experience and what’s changed. You’ll also learn about available resources to help with your roll out.