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Articles for Paul Riismandel

What Higher Education Can Learn From Podcasts: How to Go Long

Why do long-form video lectures get dull in a hurry, while long-form podcasts remain engaging? Because podcasts are built on conversations.

Online Students Do Not Learn By Video Alone, Finds Study

Streamed lectures, it turns out, are a poor replacement for classroom learning. To help students absorb what they hear, add interactive activities to the curriculum.

Educational Videographers Need to Make Time for Creativity

While the school year is a hectic one for video teams, it's important to carve out a few hours to meet together and think creatively about upcoming projects.

Found in Translation: How to Stream Video in Multiple Languages

Reach out to an international audience. Here are video translation steps to follow for strong results, as well as expert tips for high quality.

It's Elementary: Schools Should Teach Basic Video Literacy

Just as today's workers need to know how to write a clear and effective report, tomorrow's workers will need to know how to present their message on video.

Colleges Need to Teach the Teachers to Produce Quality Video

Technical snafus can disrupt lectures and frustrate instructors. For strong results, colleges and universities need to think about training ahead of time.

Learning by Design: Go Beyond Performance in Educational Video

Anyone creating educational online videos should discover the principals of instructional design, which emphasize what the student learns.

Attention Universities: It's Time to Kill the Lecture!

Lectures are outdated, ineffective, and just plain dull. Online video is ready to take over, delivering information in a far better way.

How to Create a Video Strategy for Colleges and Universities

Captions, interactivity, and lifespan management should all be part of a comprehensive video strategy.

Higher Education Needs an Online Video Strategy, Too

Colleges and universities need to think about their streaming video needs, just like businesses do. Here are the factors to consider and the questions to ask.

Higher Education Faces a Storm of Change with Video at the Center

Video is transforming how college students learn, but creating a video strategy takes careful planning.

Lecture Capture: A Bold Idea to Make Classroom Learning Flexible

Recording lectures for use out of the classroom seems to help in-classroom performance.

Educators and Students Benefit from Video's Power to Connect

Whether it's in the classroom or not, video can play an important role for teachers, students and coaches, helping them build one-on-one connections.

Online Video E-Portfolios are Coming into Their Own

Schools that provide a seamless, video-rich e-portfolio are giving their students a leg up in advancing to colleges and the job market

Class Act: Learning in HD

Class Act: Learning in HD

Despite the move towards HD for online video, there are still use cases where SD is the best fit

Class Act: It’s Not About the Equipment

Class Act: Where’s the Teaching Camera of Today?

Class Act: Form to Enhance Function

Class Act: On Production Values and Flipping Burgers

There's a tangle of ideas embedded in the concept of production values.

Class Act: Preserving Your Video Legacy

With the last distributor of new VHS movies giving up the format, it is time for educational institutions to think about what video they have stored in this medium.

Advanced Learning: Education Year in Review

The use of video in higher education has moved beyond mere lecture capture.

Futurewatch: Education—Critical Decisions

2009 will be the year educational media goes beyond podcasts and becomes truly mobile.

Adobe's New eLearning Suite

The Adobe eLearning Suite, which includes the brand-new Captivate 4, takes aim at both rich media presentation tools and conferencing/collaboration platforms with offerings that should appeal to both academic users and enterprise training departments.
Tues., Jan. 20, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: What Makes for Compelling Video?

Faculty profile videos are a good way to get people excited about your institution, but only if you have something to show.
Tues., Dec. 2, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: Educating the Next Generation of Online Media Makers

The maturation of online media will demand an increasing level of sophistication in production, design, and distribution. So who's training our future online media innovators?
Mon., Nov. 3, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: Intellectuals' Property Rights

How should we balance protection and openness when it comes to educators' intellectual property?
Tues., Sept. 30, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: Is DIY the Way to Go for Educational Institutions?

With a DIY approach to online video, you're substituting one resource for another—time for money. It's not a bad equation, particularly if your institution is just testing the waters, but it is wise to recognize that trade-off at the start and budget learning time as an investment in your school's online success.
Fri., June 27, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: What's Your Digital Media Strategy?

These days, most learning institutions take the necessity of investing in their websites seriously. But when it comes to digital media, I feel like it’s 1998 all over again.

Futurewatch: Education

To CDN or not to CDN? That is the question for schools in 2008.

Gimme Five: Rich Media Presentation Systems for Education and the Enterprise

By carefully assessing your needs and comparing them against the features of these five rich media presentation systems, you're likely to find one that meets your requirements.
Tues., April 15, by Paul Riismandel

How to Manage Video Content in Higher Education

Managing online video content isn't simple, easy, or cheap. Yet, when the use of dynamic content management systems (CMSs) for websites has trickled down within reach of every blogger, it’s frustrating to realize that the same kind of management for digital media has not necessarily made the same journey, especially in education.

Class Act: We're Educational Media Professionals

What's in a name? Plenty, and it's time that those of us whose job is to coordinate digital media to make their case.

Class Act: The Future of Educational Video?

It's time digital media becomes an adjunct to writing for college students and instructors, and schools, colleges, and universities should provide basic audio and video production skills.
Fri., Nov. 16, by Paul Riismandel

Class Act: ROI in the EDU

Increasingly, educational technologists are asked to weigh the costs in money and labor of technologies with tangible, demonstrable returns.

Changing in a Flash

Just because Flash Video has leapt to the forefront of consumer content delivery doesn't mean it's time to abandon all other formats within the academy.