Video In Higher Education A look into SUNY’s Online Video Platform Strategy Ryan presents: Welcome to today’s Wowza Webinar: Video in Higher Education: A Look into SUNY's Online Video Platform Strategy. Colleges and universities are using video to accelerate learning, increase prospective student engagement, improve knowledge sharing, and reduce the cost of doing business. In this session, we will examine how the State University of New York (SUNY) Information Technology Exchange Center uses Ensemble Video and Wowza Media Systems to provide cost-effective video streaming infrastructure as a service to the SUNY network. Additionally, you will learn how Buffalo State College has deployed Ensemble Video and Wowza to deliver a scalable and easy to use platform to manage their ever-increasing flow of digital media content.

Agenda Introductions SUNY Buffalo State College Ensemble Video Wowza Media Systems Video Workflow LCMS Demo Organizational Structure Delivery and Scalability Summary Q&A Ryan presents

Presenters Melaine C. Kenyon Director for Instructional Technology Michael Notarius CIO, SUNY ITEC Scott Nadzan Vice President of Marketing and Sales Ryan Jespersen Training Manager Ryan presents: Melaine Kenyon serves as director of instructional technology for Buffalo State College, the largest comprehensive college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in history and a master of library science degree from the University at Buffalo. As IT director, Kenyon provides overall leadership in operations and coordinates the activities of all units in the Instructional Resources Department: classroom technology support, instructional design, the college's learning management system, video production, photography, graphic design, and television engineering services. She provides strategic leadership for the development and integration of instructional technology into classrooms and other learning spaces, and she is directly involved in the planning and design of classroom media technologies for academic environments under renovation. She also serves as the primary contact for instructional technology media purchases and consultation. Mike Notarius is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in SUNY for a University-wide program called the Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC) consisting of approximately 52 highly technical colleagues housed at Buffalo State College. He has been involved with this organization for more than 20 years of his 34+ years in Information Technology (IT). Mike is an extremely driven individual  and does what ever is necessary to ensure success of the students, SUNY and ITEC. Of course he does this for his family as well, his amazing wife years, his 24 year old son and 25 year old daughter. Joining us from Ensemble Video is Scott Nadzan, Vice President of Marketing & Sales. Today Scott is in charge of marketing and sales strategies that will generate positive awareness and revenue for Ensemble Video. Before focusing on marketing and sales, Scott was involved in inventing the initial version of Ensemble Video. This includes the creation of the Ensemble Video brand concept, the Ensemble Video logo and core product functionality. Prior to joining Ensemble Video, Scott was the Director of Technology Services at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and was also responsible for managing Syracuse University's rich media infrastructure. Scott has been a frequent panelist at Streaming Media East/West, and in addition to his audio/video expertise, Scott has significant expertise in Web design, Internet Marketing, e-commerce, social media and new media. Scott also enjoys teaching, he has spent time teaching in K-12, higher-education and corporate institutions. My name is Ryan Jespersen and I am the Training Manager here at Wowza.

Buffalo State College Founded in 1871 125-acre campus in the heart of Buffalo: 10,500 undergraduates 1,300 graduate students 171 undergraduate programs with 11 honors options 11 post baccalaureate teacher programs 61 graduate programs

SUNY ITEC Special purpose organization Supports multi-campus, computer- related, group activities Targeted at improving the quality, quantity and cost- effectiveness of campus-based and University-wide computer services. The Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC), located on the Buffalo State campus, is a special-purpose, self funded organization established by participating SUNY institutions to support multi-campus, computer-related group activities targeted at improving the quality, quantity and cost-effectiveness of campus-based and University-wide information technology services. ITEC supports 49 member campuses of the 64 campuses and University-wide programs that make up the State University of New York (SUNY), however provides services to all 64 campuses in one way or another.

Ensemble Video Ensemble Video is a secure, easy to use, easy to deploy online video platform. Ensemble Video enables hundreds of organizations across the globe to enhance teaching, learning and communication. Ensemble Video offers self-hosted, cloud-hosted, and multi-tenant deployments, and works in concert with a wide range of complementary video and web technologies to streamline video management and publishing.

Ensemble in the SUNY System Map of NY State With SUNYs Blue Dots: ITEC Hosted Black: Self-Hosted

Wowza Media Systems Simplifying the complexities of video and audio streaming In business since 2005 Customers in 150+ countries Wowza Streaming Engine: award-winning software Ryan presents 2011, 2012, 2013

Wowza Streaming Engine™ Robust, customizable, and scalable server software that powers reliable streaming of high-quality audio and video to any device anywhere. Scale across OSs and architectures. From start-up websites to mission critical applications. Ryan presents

VIDEO WORKFLOW

Buffalo State Need to Have Features Video Assignment Dropbox Annotations Closed Captions Video Management for Faculty Video Streaming to Mobile Transitioning from old Media Solution Melaine

SUNY ITEC 33 campuses LMS hosting and administration 11 campuses using Ensemble Video Platform Cost Effective Solution Significant savings with centralized deployment Advantage of administrative console Open SUNY Integrate Ensemble into course delivery Consistent Adoption and Support

Video Workflow Scott

How Ensemble Video Works Scott

Streaming Workflow Ryan presents

Learning Content Management Systems Scott with Melaine & Mike

Organizational Structure

Organizational Structure Scott & Melaine

Flexible Organizational Structure Scott & Mike

On-Premise Delivery

Cloud Delivery Model

Hybrid Delivery Model

Multi-Tenant / Consortium Model

Summary

Results SUNY ITEC Buffalo State Campuses are HAPPY with cost-effective video platform Reduced duplicate services, efforts and investments Close to 500,000 Total Views in less than 18 months 11 New SUNY's in less than 18 months Empowered faculty to manage their own content Integrated with campus LMS for streamlined service Students can watch videos on many devices Eliminated time-consuming complicated manual workflows Ensemble’s captioning integration helps BSC meet accessibility goals.

Summary Ensemble Video and Wowza® software is deployed globally across thousands of universities and K-12 organizations. Stream lectures, scientific discoveries, sports, events and more. Our platform lets students, faculty, alumni, and supporters engage with your content wherever they are. The software is tailor-made to deliver cost effective on-line learning programs to audiences anywhere on any device.

Next Steps To setup a free trial and demo visit EnsembleVideo.com Reach out to Scott via email at scott@ensemblevideo.com Or by phone at 315-753-0094

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