RPP #108: Mediasite: Interview with Sean Brown

• Interview: Sean Brown, Vice President of Education at Sonic Foundry. Sean has over 17 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education.
• We discuss their Mediasite product including:

• lecture capture in the classroom
• their new product that supports personal recording at the desktop
• faculty and student acceptance
• new uses including flipping the classroom
• support for mobile devices including iPad
• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon"

Duration: 29:08

RPP #107: Ensemble Video: Interview with Scott Nadzan

• Interview: Scott Nadzan, Director of Marketing & Sales for Ensemble Video. Ensemble Video is like an institutional YouTube with the flexibility and controls required in higher education. 
• We answer the questions:

• What is video content management?
• How is it used?
• What formats are supported?
• Why isn’t Youtube good enough?
• Does it work with my LMS?
• Can you use it for iTunes U videos and GoToMeeting recordings?
• Podsafe Music Selection
• "A Passage of Life" by Kitaro

Duration: 25:46

RPP #106: ApprenNet: Interview with Karl Okamoto & Emily Foote on LawMeet MOOC

• Interview with Karl Okamoto and Emily Foote, co-founders of ApprenNet LLC.
  
  Online LawMeets® leverage the ApprenNet platform to bring a community of lawyers together in order to foster knowledge sharing without the high costs that traditional apprenticeships entail. Online LawMeets offer the ability to scale significant predictors of skills acquisition, including: observation, social capital and mentorship.
• They answer the questions:
• What is a traditional law ‘Meet’
• What is a MOOC?
• How do you use a MOOC to simulate an apprenticeship?
• How does LawMeets work?
• Can anyone use ApprenNet?
  
• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• Air on G String by J.S. Bach performed by UK’s Brunswick Duo

Duration: 22:39

RPP #105: Blackboard Analytics for Learn

• Interview with Mark Max, Vice President of Blackboard Analytics (formerly iStrategy)
• Blackboard Analytics for Learn combines the data from Blackboard Learn with student and course attributes from the student information system to create reports and dashboards. We discuss how this product is used by students, faculty and leadership, for example:
• Students: How do I measure up to my peers?
• Faculty: How can I easily find students who are at-risk?
• Leadership: Who are the most innovative instructors?
  
• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• "Stress" (song and flash animation) by highly caffeinated Jim Infantino of the band, Jim's Big Ego.

Duration: 23:25