New cloud service transforms distance learning into rich, searchable
video on-demand
EDUCAUSE booth #1902 — Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO),
the trusted global leader for video creation and management
solutions, today announced University of Florida (UF) has added
Mediasite Join to its set of tools for recording, storing and managing
distance learning courses, collaborative meetings and special events
that occur over video conferences.
Mediasite
Join, a cloud-based solution, expands the reach, life and value of
any video conference by recording and transforming it into engaging,
searchable video on-demand. With no additional appliances or equipment,
it’s the easiest way to preserve everything that is said and shown in a
collaborative classroom or meeting. Users simply invite Mediasite Join
as a participant to their video conferences. It then transcodes, indexes
and publishes recorded calls to Mediasite alongside all their other
video assets.
“Our other way of capturing videoconferences merges all video and
content feeds into one stream, and that’s not ideal. Mediasite Join
provides our students a rich media experience with separate and
searchable streams for video and slides,” said Brandon Telg, IT
Specialist, UFIT – Academic Technology. “It’s integrated with our
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform already, making our lives much
easier when everything is on one platform. Sonic Foundry has been
incredibly responsive as we implement this new service on campus,
reaching out to us proactively to let us know when new updates come
along. That’s very uncommon to find a company that is so upfront with
everything.”
UF has already recorded high profile events on campus with Mediasite
Join, and this fall the service will be available campus-wide. For
example, it has large agriculture and health colleges with satellite
offices around the state. Faculty and staff in those offices can’t
always attend meetings and don’t have the necessary video conference
equipment to dial in remotely. Mediasite Join will record those meetings
for people to watch when it’s convenient for them.
UF has used Mediasite since
2004 to capture what’s happening in classrooms and events on campus.
Its Mediasite video creation is growing 85 percent, with views
increasing 330 percent year over year. In 2014, viewership of Mediasite
presentations exceeded 2.6 million, including 400,000 views in a single
month.
“Video is the foundation of today’s distance learning classrooms and
collaborative workspaces, and it’s essential to be able to instantly
find information from classroom discussions and meetings. By integrating
Mediasite Join into its existing Cisco video conference system,
University of Florida will easily record all shared knowledge,” said
Gary Weis, Sonic Foundry CEO. “We’ve been working with University of
Florida for more than a decade, empowering them with the latest in
academic video, and we’re excited it’s integrating the new Mediasite
Join service to its campus video strategy.”
Trusted by 1,400 colleges and universities, the patented Mediasite
webcasting and video content management system quickly and
cost-effectively automates the capture, management, delivery and search
of live and on-demand videos and rich media.
About University of Florida
The state’s oldest and most comprehensive university, UF is among the
nation’s most academically diverse public universities.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is the trusted global leader for video
capture, management and webcasting solutions in education, business and
government. The patented Mediasite
Enterprise Video Platform transforms communications, training,
education and events for more than 3,000 customers in over 60 countries.
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are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.
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