K-12 and Higher Education

Colleges, universities, and K-12 schools are relying on video as a teaching tool.  Discover Video provides a wide variety of video streaming technology for educational institutions.   They range from distance learning equipment and services to live and on-demand video distribution systems.  We strive to provide easy to use systems that can be utilized by educators and students facilitating the learning process.

Discover Video education solutions:

• Live streaming of video, audio, and multimedia to remote students with Q&A
• Lecture capture and distribution systems
• Live and on-demand delivery of educational content on campuses and in school systems
• Priority Video Alert systems
• Webcasting systems and services
• Transcoding of existing live video streams to mobile – iPhone, iPad, Android, etc.
• Portable video conferencing systems

Why do colleges, universities, and K-12 schools use Discover Video solutions:

• We provide low cost solutions that fit into tight school budgets
• We provide flexible video products and services that can meet school needs
• The Discover Video staff has over 30 years experience providing education solutions
• The president of Discover Video is on the CT Education Technology council
• Discover Video products meet industry standards
• Our products are designed for ease of use

Case Study:  Distributing live and on-demand video for classroom viewing

Challenge:
Beacon City Schools, NY, had most of their video learning materials on DVDs and VHS tapes.   Teachers would obtain the DVDs or VHS tapes from the library and play them on the DVD players or VCRs in their classroom.   In addition, morning announcements were provided on the PA system.  The Beacon schools wanted to eliminate the DVDs and VHS tapes and provide live and on-demand video to classrooms.

Solution:
Discover Video provided a VBrick Video Enterprise Management System (VEMS) with VBrick encoders and decoders.   The video network also included a VBrick Video on Demand server.  Now, all of the video assets reside on the Video on Demand server and can be displayed in classrooms on PCs or projectors.   Teachers can locate and play any education video in seconds.  In addition, the school is using the VBrick encoders for live distribution of video – morning announcements to each classroom.  The live and on-demand video can be multicast, thereby preserving network bandwidth.  The new system reduced costs by eliminating the cost issues of lost or damaged DVDs/VHS tapes, and upkeep of DVD players and VCRs.

Link to Beacon Schools, NY:  http://www.beaconcityk12.org/

Equipment: 

• VBrick Video Enterprise Management System
• VBrick MPEG Video on Demand Server
• VBrick Windows Media and MPEG video encoder and decoder appliances

Recording and distributing classroom lectures to students

Challenge:
Touro College in New York City wanted to record classroom lectures and distribute them on-demand to students.  The system had to record video, audio, and PC screen/VGA.   It had to be easy to use and provide content that is viewable on multiple devices.

Solution:
Discover Video provided a lecture capture system that would allow Touro College to record classroom lectures and make them available to students on-demand.  The system can be controlled by the professor, by remote personnel, or scheduled to record.   Once recorded the video is automatically placed on a Video on Demand server for viewing by students.  The recorded lectures can be easily selected through a web interface and viewed with DVR type controls.

Link to Touro College:   http://www.touro.edu/

Equipment: 

• Discover Video Stream Recorder (records synchronized video, audio, and PC screen)
• VBrick Media Control Server (MCS)
• VBrick Video on Demand Server
• VBrick Encoder Appliances

Download a Application Note on Lecture Capture using DVME here

Case Study: Reaching Homebound Students

Challenge:
Beacon Schools, NY had several students that could not attend school for health reasons.  The  students did not want to fall behind in their classes.  Beacon Schools needed a way to integrate the homebound students into classroom learning.

Solution:
Discover Video provided Beacon Schools inexpensive portable video conferencing systems.  The inPerson units were given to the home bound students and to teachers in the classrooms.  During the class the teacher would activate the videoconference by ringing the remote unit.  As soon as student answered they were able to do remote classroom instruction.   The student could easily see the teacher, white board, and fellow students and participate in the classroom discussion.   The inPerson videoconference system allows these students to keep up with the classmates while recuperating at home.

Link to Beacon City Schools, NY:  http://www.beaconcityk12.org/

Equipment:

• InPerson Portable Video Conferencing units

Creating Professional Video Events

Challenge:
The Rutgers University Business School wanted to reach out to the almuni of their Executive MBA program and offer them a high-quality event featuring the best of their faculty giving presentations valuable to business executives. In this way, they hoped to provide a service to their alumni and encourage them to financially support the school's EMBA program. In order to do this, they needed to collect information from online attendees to be able to reach out to them later.

Solution:
Discover Video's highly experienced live webcast professionals provided Rutgers with a custom webcast solution including a webcast site including registration and data collection and full on-site video production, encoding and distribution for their live event.

Link to Rutgers University Business School:  http://business.rutgers.edu/

Services:

• Live webcast video production and encoding
• Webcast site design and hosting
• Live bandwidth hosting and distribution