The Ball State University School of Nursing has found an innovative way to use Mediasite recording technology and is saving the university more than $1 million.
"From a technology standpoint, it's kind of an all-in-one recording studio," Brandon Campbell, technology services specialist for the School of Nursing, said.
Kay Hodson-Carlton, coordinator of education resources for the school of nursing, said Mediasite records nursing students in clinical simulation labs so they can review and critique lab performance during debriefings.
University Teleplex told staff that each of the six recording studios the School of Nursing wanted to build would cost about $200,00 and would total $1.2 million, Hodson-Carlton said. Mediasite costs $40,000 per studio and totals $240,000, she said.
Campbell said Mediasite also has a live Internet feed so the students can watch the video from the labs at another location.
"The real nice feature is when you're recording with a regular device, you can just do a regular recording," Campbell said. "That's no fun. [With Mediasite] you can stream your video to the Web."
The equipment also records vital signs such as heart rates and oxygen levels for SimMan and SimBaby, high-fidelity patient simulators, he said. During lab sessions, the simulator creates a scenario for medical conditions such as diabetes, and the students respond to the patient like they would in an actual hospital setting.
The Mediasite equipment is a basic Sony video camera with an Internet connection that feeds the video to the Web, Campbell said.
"It's nothing too fancy," he said. "Just a Sony IDB."
Sophomore Elise Moore said video recordings are viewed in class, then made available to the students to access at home.
"For my assessment class, it's fabulous," she said. "We have competency [assessments] every week, and if you can't remember anything before it, you can re-watch your instructor demonstrate it."
Hodson-Carlton said faculty and staff were searching for standard recording equipment to use to record students in the labs.
Campbell said the School of Nursing has two Mediasite labs and plans to build four more. The first studio opened last August and the second opened before Winter Break, he said.
Hodson-Carlton said the School of Nursing adopted Mediasite after seeing a demonstration at the Office of Teaching and Learning Advancement.
The OTLA was using the technology for distance education, but the Teleplex was able to install recording studios to meet the School of Nursing's needs in their labs, she said.
About 10 nursing classes use Mediasite, she said.
Moore said she uses the equipment in both of the nursing classes she is taking.
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