Live Webinar: Can Lecture Capture Make You a Better Professor?

MADISON, Wis., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Can lecture capture make you a better professor? Join Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting, lecture capture and knowledge management, for a live webinar with Dr. Anne-Marie Lerner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin – Platteville.

During the spring 2009 semester, Lerner began teaching engineering in a Mediasite-enabled classroom. Three semesters later, she believes lecture capture has made her a better instructor. And today, she's still teaching synchronously to traditional students in the on-site classroom and asynchronously to non-traditional, distance education students who never come on-campus.

One of the most energetic and compelling instructors in this medium, Lerner recently presented her findings at conferences like Campus Technology and the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. Now she's carving out time for an online chat with you to present what she's learned and to answer your most pressing questions about getting faculty comfortable with lecture capture.

During this lively discussion, she'll cover:

• Tips to overcome barriers to faculty adoption and evangelism
• Ways to address the comfort level of faculty in adopting lecture capture for both blended and online courses
• What mainstream media - like late night talk shows and even Sesame Street - can teach instructors about teaching through webcasts
• How to embrace tablet PCs and in-room videocameras for course instruction, including real-time notation of formulas and calculations
• Why it is still easy to use student engagement levels, either in class, during office hours or online, to gauge how they will perform

Presenter:

Anne-Marie Lerner, Ph.D. is at the forefront of using advanced internet technologies in her teaching, including webcasting and video conferencing. She is a third-year faculty member at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville collaborative program located at the University of Wisconsin - Rock County. In her capacity as assistant professor, she has delivered the first streaming courses from a remote campus to two other remote two-year campuses across the state of Wisconsin. Her professional interests include investigating effective teaching pedagogy for remote delivery as well as to nontraditional students, and education assessment. She received her Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008

Moderator:

Sean Brown, Sonic Foundry's Vice President of Education

About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.

Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO, www.sonicfoundry.com) is the global leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, providing enterprise communication solutions for education, business and government. Powered by Mediasite, the patented webcasting platform which automates the capture, management, delivery and search of lectures, online training and briefings, Sonic Foundry empowers people to transform the way they communicate. Through the Mediasite platform and its Event Services group, the company helps customers connect a dynamic, evolving world of shared knowledge and envisions a future where learners and workers around the globe use webcasting to bridge time and distance, accelerate research and improve performance. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of Sonic Foundry, Inc. or their respective owners.

Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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