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Accordent Media Management System(TM) is Central Portal for Lecture Archives Captured with the Accordent Capture Station(TM)

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Accordent Technologies today announced that the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston (UTHSC) has deployed a multi-site webcasting platform that enables students, faculty and staff in its Medical, Dental and Nursing schools to search, and replay, lecture content to improve comprehension and expand learning opportunities.

The system - which uses nine Accordent Capture Station (ACS) units at the UT School of Medicine, the UT School of Dentistry and the UT School of Nursing - automatically captures video and audio from lectures, and publishes them as multimedia presentations that include synchronized slides and other graphics presented during the lecture.

UTHSC also uses the ACS units to create live streaming webcasts. These streaming events enable UTHSC to offer an online link that enables doctors and students at international and other remote facilities (including clinics and teaching hospitals) to click on to view high-profile events, such as the annual Preventive Cardiology Forum.

All nine capture devices are controlled centrally by an Accordent Media Management System (AMMS), which enables administrators to remotely activate the units by a pre-set lecture schedule or as needed. Once captured, students, faculty and staff can access the lectures through the AMMS portal, which secures the content by validating the viewer's login against appropriate viewing privileges. Students can search for relevant information using key words located in the lecture title, description, slides, slide notes and closed caption data. Another region of the portal allows selected content to be made available to the public.

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