Education- Knowledge Through Video
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Video is a Tool
It’s a teaching tool and a learning tool. It’s a way to communicate information; to broadcast content and to share it with the world; to monitor your infrastructure, and it's an instrument to collaborate across campuses or school districts.
Unique Educational Approach
Garland Pertners team has experience integrating solutions at academic institutions of every shape and size. Whether it’s a multi-campus university or a single grade school, our team can help you meet today's needs and help define your desires for the future.
TEACH/LEARN
On Demand Video Library
Maybe you would like to digitize your entire media libraries and provide access to them in every classroom, on-demand? So that every teacher now has access to each and every video asset with the click of a mouse.
We can help you achieve that by providing appropriate VOD servers and archiving equipement like:
Learning as Events Unfold
It might be a space shuttle launch, a presidential inauguration, or even the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. When the world changes, educators must be ready to change with it. With our solution in place, live news can be streamed directly to any classroom at any time. This can include both live TV chanels or camera feeds.
Building Your Library
GPL has worked with many institutions to convert their existing media libraries into complete on-demand digital systems.
Attending Class – Virtually
For many students, missing class can present a serious impediment to learning. We can provide a series of designed solutions to record and store lectures, making them available on desktops, laptops, PDA s, or televisions for reviewing at a later date.
INFORM
Delivering Important Announcements
Many of our clients have replaced announcement boards with large displays connected int SignageLive systems. They can display Video, live TV, custom text announcements, images and RSS feeds, such as weather, or sport news.
This enabels to inform their staff, student-body, and even parents of important changes, news and events.
Faculty and Staff Continuing Education
Empower your faculty and staff, by delivering important training, updates, or continuing education programs via video directly to their desktop computers. Whether it’s HR benefits training or curriculum-specific content, teachers and administrators can now get the training they need, when they need it.
Tracking and Reporting
An important part of any information resource is understanding how it is being used. We’ve developed a set of tools to help you understand who’s viewing what, when, making it easier to tailor your content to those who need it.
MONITOR/REACT
Monitor Classrooms, Lecture Halls, or Conference Rooms
As your infrastructure evolves, your ability to utilize existing technology will enable your security staff to integrate video from CCTV cameras into their security system.Emergency Broadcasts
In the case of any emergency, communicating important information to the entire student body, the faculty and the staff, and even parents, should be an integral part of your emergency response plan. Using our solutions to deliver live information to your entire organization can increase your response time and reduce confusion.Monitoring Large Crowds and Events
Your staff can more effectively monitor traffic or crowds during large sports events, graduations, or concerts using video solutions that maximize your security team’s efficiency.
SHARE
Broadcasting Events to Share with the World
School Districts are broadcasting guest speakers, concerts, and district board meetings live to the internet and storing them for on-demand viewing. Colleges and Universities are broadcasting large-scale sporting events, graduation ceremonies, speeches, forums, and symposiums to their alumni, disparate campuses, and parents all over the world.GPL will help you to find solutions of all sizes with the ability to broadcast anything you choose to anyone in the world, quickly and easily.
Sharing Experiences
When Dr. Robert Ballard returned to the Titanic twenty years after he first discovered it, he streamed the live video from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean using VBrick technology. Today, your institution can take students to places they might never be able to go using live, streaming technology.Broadcast Guest Lectures
Any lecture hall or concert venue can become a broadcast point for students, faculty,
and staff. Broadcast and store guest lectures and make them available for future
viewing or share them with affiliated institutions or satellite campuses.
COLLABORATE
Collaborate with Satellite Campuses
Video is one of the most efficient and effective ways to bridge time and space. What’s more, it gives each and every student the opportunity to learn in the same environment, no matter where they are located.Enabling Distance Learning
For institutions in remote locations or for satellite campuses, distance learning has become an essential tool in the quest to provide a well-rounded education. Our partners' network appliance solutions enable students to participate in classes live with high-quality video and audio in real-time.Two-Way Interaction
As any educator knows, student-teacher interaction is an important part of the learning process. We understand this and can help enable live, two-way interaction between distant campuses giving each and every student the same learning experience.
Example solution for Mediacal School
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'Open access' operation rooms
Enable students, trainees and medical staff to virtually be inside the operation room. Low-delay camera transmissions with professional detail image resolution are possible with Teracue products. The video quality is very high, allowing for videos to be projected inside class rooms, lecture theaters and auditoriums.
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Communicate and interact with professors, doctors and surgeons
The ENC-Talkback utility enables students or trainees from lecture halls to talk with the medical staff inside the operation room. Audio conferencing between the 'input' and 'output' side of such an IP video environment is possible, allowing for real-time questions and answers - directly and on-the-spot. Participants are able to experience "true" interactive training sessions. The audio communication travels via the same network path as the video transmission - no need for additional cabling and wiring.
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Chief surgeon real-time assistance:
Streams from operation rooms can also be provided to the office desktop PCs of chief surgeons. When a critical moment during an operation or transplant arises and top-level advise is needed, the operation room can ask for assistance. If chief surgeons cannot reach the operation room in time - they join and assist the operation directly from their desktops.
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Recording for documentation and archiving:
The live streams from the operation room can simultaneously be used for all digital recordings. Operations and training sessions can easily be captured and preserved - safely and securely with the iCue streaming server. Metadata can be added to the recordings in the form of descriptions. Manual, semi-automatic and fully scheduled recordings enable efficient workflows. To ensure secure handling of critical video content, the recordings can be configured to only be accessible by the recording owner (surgeon); later he may published this video to other users or complete user-groups.
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Creating highlight videos and training clips:
Extracting highlights from long recording sessions or transplants is necessary to create new video training clips for students or to demonstrate results to partner clinics, universities or institutes. This can be done directly on the server, where the content has been recorded - without losing the video's permissions, without having critical content stored locally.
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Highlights from long recordings can be extracted with a few mouse clicks:
- The new highlight clip can be accessed from inside the classroom as audio-visual lecture material
- Made available and posted as video on-demand training clips, for viewing on in-house workstations. Students and staff are able to train and review - by re-viewing at their own pace
- The video can be exported and compressed for electronic transfer. The video can be shared by creating a DVD/CD or distribution by Email/FTP
Example solution for University
The following University applications can be supported by VBrick products:
- Challenge
For more than two decades, Oklahoma State University has used video technology to help bridge the distance between their three campuses. In the past, a complex and costly analog satellite system delivered live video from classrooms at each campus so students could participate and collaborate.
In addition, more and more teachers began recording their classes and asking their media services team to encode and upload videos to their class websites, this time consuming process took its toll on the media services team.
While they looked for a solution they also hoped to be able to capitalize on their exiting studio and broadcast infrastructure to enable live broadcasts of graduations, speaking engagements and sporting events to the entire student body, both live and on-demand.
- Solution
OSU’s system encompasses more than a dozen classrooms where classes are broadcast live onto their network. Each class is also recorded so students at remote campuses can access the classes as they happen, or log on to view the classes at a later time.
VBrick’s system integrated directly into the existing OSU network. With a single sign-on directly tied into their LDAP system, students, faculty and staff can use a “single sign-on” to access only the content they are allowed to view.
In addition, VBrick’s EtherneTV system is connected directly to their broadcast facility where everything from distance-learning classes to sporting events are produced. This tight integration allows anything produced in the facility to be broadcast and recorded right through EtherneTV.
- Benefit
By connecting each campus with VBrick’s EtherneTV system, OSU has reduced the burden on their media services team by automating the recording, encoding and distribution process. In addition, the network distribution has all-but-removed their dependency on satellite broadcasts.
EtherneTV’s LDAP integration has made the system a completely integrated part of the OSU technology platform and reduces the IT maintenance and oversight of the system guaranteeing that only content approved for distribution is available.
Long term, OSU’s staff believes that video technology will change the way that higher education is delivered. Now, with the ability to time-shift classes students can decide how they would like their classes delivered broadening the possibilities.
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