Integrating Video Conferencing and Streaming in your Learning Environment

Russ Scaduto, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDirector of Education TechnologyPenn State Hershey

Background: Our Setting in Hershey

• 500-bed hospital, 20+ off-site clinics, 1,800 nurses, ~850 faculty and physicians, 495 medical students, 505 medical residents, 350 graduate students, ~9,000 employees.

• Tremendous educational needs• We have been starting to use more advanced

approaches to store, manage and deliver educational content using a host of different technologies.

Several technologies are used together, some separately. The decision is based on the intended use of the educational material. “H.323” Conferencing, aka, Polycom. A tool for live point-to-point (or

multipoint) video conferencing. PSU ANGEL (A New Global Environment for Learning), the PSU CMS. Mediasite, a product of Sonic Foundry. A tool for lecture/presentation

capture and archiving. Also great for streaming webcasts. Adobe Acrobat Connect. A tool for desktop sharing, conferencing and distance

education. V-Brick encoding and Portal Server (HMC MediaNet). A tool for Windows

Media and MPEG-2 video recording, archiving and streaming. AMX touch control panels. Used for system automation, component

integration and simplification.

Technologies

Education Technology

I believe technology increases the value of data, so that it becomes information. Data is not useful unless it can be organized and shared. Then it

becomes information. The better it is organized, the more values it has. Technology

allows educational content to be “repackaged” to provide students with a variety of means to experience and learn content.

Technology also allows content to be viewed from remote locations and shared between distant sites.

Technology also allows content to be enduring. Streaming technologies provide content security.

Recording and Archiving Lectures

• Mediasite (Sonic Foundry, Inc.) used to record and archive all “large-room” lectures to 1st year medical students (154 students). 2nd year students added in January, 2008.

• Teaching faculty could elect to not participate. The “default” was to record their lecture.

• Lecture recording (start, stop, publish) was automated through a central schedule.

• Access to recordings was restricted (via Active Directory) to:

– Class of 2011, Class of 2012

– Participating Faculty Members

– Selected Administrators (3)

– Selected A/V Staff (3)

• Podcast of lectures also available (MP3 file, audio only) through RSS.

Mediasite Integration

Mediasite in the CurriculumBlock

Total Lectures

LecturesRecorded

Not Recorded

Number of Views

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Grading Method

FALL

Structural Basis of Medical Practice (SBMP)

94 30 64 531 17.7 H/HP/P/F

Cellular and Molecular Basis of Medical Practice (CMBMP)

92 92 0 4,670 50.8 H/HP/P/F

Foundations of Clinical Medicine (FCM)

12 10 2 128 12.8 P/F

Social Influences in Health (SIH)

31 28 3 671 24.0 P/F

SPRING

Cellular and Molecular Basis of Medical Practice (CMBMP)

114 112 2 8,839 79.0 H/HP/P/F

Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)

7 7 0 599 85.6 H/HP/P/F

Medical Humanities (HMN) 11 11 0 165 15 P/F

Biological Basis of Disease (BBD)

90 90 0 6,848 76.1 H/HP/P/F

Total or Average: 451 380 71 22,451 45.1

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Integration of Lecture Capture with Video Conferencing

• In several conference rooms, we have integrated Mediasite with Polycom conferencing systems, to essentially provide the “best of both worlds”.

• Interactive “live” Lectures can be presented between remote locations (Polycom) and the presentation captured (Sonic Foundry, Inc.) for later on-demand viewing. This is used for Hershey-PSU UP classes and for Department-Clinic conferences.

• The various options in a lecture room are selectable via an AMX control panel.

AMX Integration

AMX Integration

AMX Integration

Operating Room Integration

Operating Room Integration

Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1900

Operating Room Integration

OR-18 Stream

What’s Next for Us?

• Enhanced opportunities for OR conferencing with Residents and Surgery staff.

• On-line patient education, in the hospital room and on the web.

• Better systems to track staff education and credentialing, e.g., Learning Management System.

• Better infrastructure to develop education content in-house. Moving beyond PowerPoint to interactive learning objects.

• Developing a Simulation Laboratory as part of a Learning Center.

Thank you…

Thank you for attending this presentation.

Questions?

Russ Scaduto, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorDirector of Education TechnologyPenn State Hersheyrscaduto@hmc.psu.edu