Lecture Capture delivered from the Cloud brings benefits to institutions
Posted by Ed Lane on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 @ 05:24 PM
Higher Education Institutions realize considerable value from Cloud-delivered Lecture Capture solutions
Most other industries embraced Cloud-based solutions as a strategy for reducing costs and improving services long ago. Higher education held back, arguing that its paradigm isn’t well suited for that model. Yet institutions are continually faced with the challenge of offering more services - and improving the quality of those services - to students with decreasing budgets. Throughout 2009, this paradigm began to shift, starting with many universities adopting Cloud-based email applications like gmail.
Cloud-based solutions offer colleges and universities, of any size or type, distinctive benefits:
- Reliability: 24/7 support, redundancies, round-the-clock monitoring;
- Increased functionality: faster to deploy, configurable and easy to scale, regular updates;
- Reduced upfront costs: no purchase of hardware/software required, SaaS is subscription based;
- Reduced IT Complexity: hosted and managed by vendor, deployed via Internet;
- Security: state of the art secure data centers.
Cloud-delivered solutions keep pace with rapidly changing technologies and student expectations
In an Cloud-based delivery model, the vendor is responsible upgrading the solution. This significantly reduces the burden of managing the process for institutions and increases access for faculty and students to more innovative capabilities. As a new and emerging solution area, Lecture Capture draws from many of the technologies used in the rapidly changing digital media industry, so vendors in this space are more likely to introduce new and innovative functionality, such as advanced search, as compared to LMS and SIS-based solutions.
Today’s YouTube culture is making online video ubiquitous. That ubiquity coincides with student expectations for online accessibility to lectures and materials.
A “Cloud-based” lecture capture solution is uniquely suited for higher education when you consider that:
- Delivering instruction is no longer confined to the classroom;
- Students are taking a more active role in their own learning;
- Flexibility and scalability are key to supporting instruction; and
- Lecture capture is a rapidly evolving solution area.
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