UbiCast in Zine

Knowledge on-demand, seamlessly recorded.

Since the start of the 90s, we have en­tered a knowl­edge-based econ­omy. Knowl­edge is thus a valu­able com­mer­cial re­source. At a time when com­mu­ni­ca­tions meth­ods have taken a leap for­ward, it is vi­tal for or­ga­ni­za­tions, whether they are cor­po­rate, ed­u­ca­tional or ad­min­is­tra­tive, to cap­i­tal­ize on this re­source.

1. Digitizing knowledge to give it value

Ev­ery day, ev­ery hour and minute, knowl­edge is be­ing ex­changed : classes, train­ing ses­sions, con­fer­ences, etc. All of these “events”, whether in­ter­nal of ex­ter­nal, de­serve to be saved and re-ex­ploited. How­ever, over thou­sands of years, the hu­man brain has grown to re­ceive knowl­edge from an­other hu­man be­ing, with vis­ual senses cru­cial to con­sider body lan­guage and non-ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Record­ing a lec­ture on video and shar­ing it over net­works en­able us to truly tran­scend time and space by mak­ing that knowl­edge avail­able when and where we need it.

2. Rich Media, an optimized vector

The Rich Me­dia for­mat cre­ated with Ubi­Cast so­lu­tions syn­chro­nizes the video of a speaker and his/her pre­sen­ta­tion ma­te­rial. First of all, this has the ad­van­tage of main­tain­ing a viewer’s at­ten­tion – just try and fol­low an hour-long train­ing ses­sion with au­dio and slides only. Rich Me­dia also of­fers nav­i­ga­tion by chap­ters, key­word search within slides and even search within au­dio, for users to pre­cisely find the con­tent they are look­ing for. Rich Me­dia is in­deed op­ti­mized to give ac­cess to pre­cise el­e­ments within large knowl­edge bases.

3. Transparence for the end user, the key

At Ubi­Cast, we are con­vinced that the use of this type of tool is con­di­tioned by the fact that it is trans­par­ent, that it in­te­grates with the habits of its users. In a nut­shell, trans­parence = au­to­ma­tion. We would never ex­pect a teacher or con­fer­ence speaker to man­age cam­era fram­ing and video chap­ter­iz­ing dur­ing a lec­ture. We have thus given great im­por­tance to all the pro­cesses that we can au­to­mate through tech­nol­ogy, whilst guar­an­tee­ing qual­ity : start­ing and stop­ping record­ings, cam­era fram­ing of the pre­sen­ter, cre­at­ing chap­ters, ex­tract­ing key words, pub­lish­ing, etc.

4. An open and adaptive view of publishing

Once a record­ing is fin­ished, the ques­tion of pub­lish­ing and shar­ing is im­me­di­ate : should the me­dia be made pub­lic on a well-know Web plat­form, or should it be pre­ciously kept on an in­tranet ? Each or­ga­ni­za­tion has its view and con­text. Ubi­Cast has al­ways been very open-minded on the is­sue by mak­ing its Easy­Cast so­lu­tions com­pat­i­ble with as many third party plat­forms as pos­si­ble. In­deed, Ubi­Cast is the only com­pany in its mar­ket to of­fer com­pat­i­bil­ity with com­peti­tor’s host­ing/shar­ing plat­forms. Why ? Be­cause some clients have ex­ist­ing in­fra­struc­tures to which they have grown used to.

Here the Ubi­Cast Easy­Cast rack unit is in­te­greted to iClass So­lu­tion teacher tabel and the con­trol screen is on the right side. The main teach­ing screen is touch­screen by Vi­su­al­Globe.

Capture and share presentations

Ubi­Cast is the cre­ator of Easy­Cast, a range of so­lu­tions for record­ing lec­tures, train­ing ses­sions and sem­i­nars and shar­ing them on the In­ter­net or an in­tranet in Rich Me­dia for­mat.

http://iclass.ubi­cast.tv/videos/perma­link/v124f29457758twt1r4q/