Carroll University Records Nursing Simulations

Focused on giving students hands-on, real-life experience ina clinical setting, Carroll University has captured thousands of video lecturesand course work with Mediasite to serve as valuable study and self-reviewtools.

The 38,200-square-foot Doug and Nancy Hastad Hall openedlast year on the university’s Waukesha, Wisconsin, campus and includes fivesimulation rooms with medical manikins. Students work in teams in these rooms,practicing their communication skills while caring for the robotic patients.The rooms have adjoining control and observatory areas for their instructorsand peers, a central lecture space, debriefing pods and a large exam room with20 beds. All activity in this learning space is live streamed simultaneouslyand securely with Mediasite to other students and made available on-demand forself-evaluation and critique with their instructor.

“Having Mediasite videos from simulation labs helps ourstudents to learn and grow tremendously. Not only does it allow peers toobserve the simulation in real time from any location, but afterwards theinstructor can point to a video and give constructive feedback about how toimprove their care,” said Boyang Wang, Media Services manager, CarrollUniversity. “In the simulation rooms during exam time, we easily record andmonitor as many as 75 videos in two hours from a central location.”

The university has used Mediasite for video capture andmanagement since 2014. In addition to capturing the simulation-based learning,instructors can schedule recordings for automated lecture capture in theirclassrooms or start an ad-hoc recording with the simple push of a button. Allfaculty and students have access to the desktop software capture tool MyMediasite, which allows them to record, edit and share video lessons andhomework assignments directly from their personal devices. The Mediasite RLMini portable device captures professional development sessions in the facultytraining center.

All Mediasite videos are automatically and securely publishedinto the university’s Canvas learning management system and are hosted inMediasite Video Cloud.

The university is creating prolific amounts of videolearning content. The addition of the personal capture tool My Mediasite to theuniversity’s suite of Mediasite solutions has led to exponential growth inuser-generated videos.