This document discusses the integration of video conferencing and streaming technologies in an educational setting at Penn State Hershey. It describes how they use technologies like Polycom, Mediasite, Adobe Connect, and AMX control panels to record, stream, and manage educational content delivery to nearly 2,000 students, faculty and staff across multiple campuses and clinics. Recordings of lectures through Mediasite have received over 20,000 views and integration with video conferencing allows for interactive remote lectures and presentations between sites. The technologies have increased access to educational resources and opportunities for remote collaboration.

1. Integrating Video Conferencing and
Streaming in your Learning Environment
Russ Scaduto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Education Technology
Penn State Hershey

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Mediasite Integration

7. Mediasite in the Curriculum
Total Lectures Not Number Views per Grading
Block Lectures Recorded Recorded of Views Lecture Method
Structural Basis of Medical 94 30 64 531 17.7 H/HP/P/F
Practice (SBMP)
F Cellular and Molecular Basis 92 92 0 4,670 50.8 H/HP/P/F
A of Medical Practice (CMBMP)
L Foundations of Clinical 12 10 2 128 12.8 P/F
L Medicine (FCM)
Social Influences in Health 31 28 3 671 24.0 P/F
(SIH)
S Cellular and Molecular Basis 114 112 2 8,839 79.0 H/HP/P/F
P of Medical Practice (CMBMP)
R Evidence Based Medicine 7 7 0 599 85.6 H/HP/P/F
I (EBM)
N Medical Humanities (HMN) 11 11 0 165 15 P/F
G Biological Basis of Disease 90 90 0 6,848 76.1 H/HP/P/F
(BBD)
Total or Average: 451 380 71 22,451 45.1

8. Mediasite in the Curriculum
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9. Mediasite in the Curriculum
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10. Mediasite in the Curriculum
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11. 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.

12. AMX Integration

13. AMX Integration

14. AMX Integration

15. Operating Room Integration

16. Operating Room Integration
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 1900

17. Operating Room Integration
OR-18 Stream

18. 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.

19. Thank you…
Thank you for attending this presentation.
Questions?
Russ Scaduto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director of Education Technology
Penn State Hershey
rscaduto@hmc.psu.edu