Streaming Solutions for Education

Reaching Into and Beyond the Classroom
VBrick solutions provide institutions of all sizes with the ability to broadcast and record educational content such as live classes to students at remote campuses, and even to students on the Internet. IP video lecture capture is a great way to reach students who might otherwise have problems attending classes, such as special needs and continuing education students.

Student Led Broadcasts
Students and teachers alike can use VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions to create their own content and share it with the entire community. Student-created news channels give students hands-on experience with a powerful communications medium. Delivering this content over the network, to computers and displays, engages the student body with local news, commentary, and current affairs.

Delivering Announcements
Many schools use VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions to replace morning announcements (traditionally delivered through public address systems or assemblies) with live video announcements to inform the staff, student-body, and even parents of important changes and events.

Community Outreach
School districts are using VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions to broadcast guest speakers, concerts and district board meetings live on the Internet and store them for on-demand viewing. Colleges and universities are broadcasting large-scale sporting events, graduation ceremonies, speeches, forums, and symposiums to their alumni, disparate campuses, and parents all over the world.

Emergency Broadcasts
Communicating important information to students, faculty, staff and parents should be an integral part of any emergency response plan. VBrick's Education Video Streaming platform is helping schools do just that. With VBrick, you can deliver live emergency information to everyone in your institution, as well as to the community at large, improving your response time and reducing confusion.

Enabling Distance Learning
For institutions in remote locations or for satellite campuses, distance learning has become an essential tool in the quest to provide a well-rounded education. VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions enable students to participate in classes -- live and in real-time -- with high-quality video and audio.

IP Video gives each and every student the opportunity to learn in the same environment, no matter where they are located. Colleges, universities, and school districts can share resources, leveraging their best teachers wherever they are needed.

VBrick has designed specific solutions to record and store lectures, making them available on desktops, laptops, PDAs or televisions for on-demand viewing. Providing students the ability to review recorded content as needed helps students retain the information and learn at their own pace.

Real-time Assessment
VBrick's solutions let you show students what they did right and help them correct their mistakes by giving them access to their own video assessments. For example, several medical schools are integrating VBrick-generated video into on-demand curriculums, and streaming medical procedures for remote doctors and students.

Faculty and Staff Continuing Education
Empower your faculty and staff with training on the latest instructional approaches and continuing education programs via video directly to desktop computers. Whether the subject is HR benefits training or curriculum-specific content, teachers and administrators can now get the training they need, when they need it with VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions.

Creating Asset Libraries
Many schools have video assets that are hard to access or become outdated, such as VHS tapes, DVDs and film. You can future-proof these video assets by digitizing and recording them. Digital files don’t degrade, and by making them available on-demand, you allow everyone to access and use them at the same time.

Cable in the Classroom
An IP video based television distribution system allows you to get television programming not just to every classroom, but to every computer and display in your school. VBrick’s IP video solutions work seamlessly with local cable, satellite, and digital television providers.

Rich Media-Based Curriculums
Access TV-based content to integrate into your curriculums. Capture video playlists and concatenate them to create dynamic learning experiences. Integrate video-based materials from cable TV, purchased digital assets and existing DVD/ VCR libraries.

E-Learning as Events Unfold
It might be a space shuttle launch, a presidential inauguration, or even the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. When the world changes, educators must be able to share it. With VBrick's Education Video Learning solutions in place, live news can be streamed directly to any classroom on a PC or display device like a television or video projector. Students can be a part of history.

Do-it-Yourself Broadcasting
A VBrick solution is a great way for students and faculty to create and capture their own content and distribute it throughout your institution and also into the community. With VBrick, user-created programming can be easily broadcast alongside traditional television programming and delivered over the Internet.

Sharing school district and campus news and information has never been easier. IP Video enabled digital signage allows you to deliver important announcements to displays around campus and also to students and faculty desktops via school websites and portals.

VBrick’s solutions easily integrate with most digital signage brands, allowing you to provide live and on-demand IP video to your viewers.  Deliver educational, entertainment, and information video programming directly to digital signage displays. You can also use a VBrick solution to deliver your digital signage message as a video channel allowing you to extend that reach of your digital signage solution beyond the displays.

School Outreach
Video over the Internet is a great way to create awareness among alumni and community, and keep them engaged. You can use video to broadcast graduations, fine arts activities, sports, and other special events.

Monitor Classrooms, Lecture Halls or Common Areas
Enable your security staff to integrate video from VBrick-enabled cameras into your security system. The VBrick solution can also supplement your existing analog security system and extend its capabilities into a digital format for viewing and capture.

Monitoring Large Crowds and Events
Your security staff can more effectively monitor traffic or crowds during large sports events, graduations, or concerts using VBrick's Education Video Streaming solutions.

Empower Your E-Learning Education System
VBrick is having a positive impact on E-Learning, allowing students at remote locations and campuses to access classes, catch something they missed, bookmark important information, and download corresponding class materials.

Many schools have implemented videoconferencing to facilitate distance education programs. VBrick can help you extend those videoconferencing systems by providing real-time streaming, archiving, and on-demand playback. Protect your investment by extending the capabilities of the system you already have with E-Learning capabilities and solutions.