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Groundbreaking study reveals majority of students prefer Mediasite to podcasting, opting to watch on-demand lectures immediately after class

MADISON, Wis., July 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sonic Foundry, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO), the recognized market leader for rich media webcasting and knowledge management, today announced findings from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine that medical students have adopted lecture capture with Mediasite as an essential part of their educational program.

A Mediasite campus since January 2004, Penn State Hershey Medical Center and College of Medicine deployed a pilot program at the onset of the 2007-2008 academic year to record lectures to first year medical students. Previously, the hospital and college had adopted Mediasite for grand rounds, continuing medical education, internal review board meetings and other campus education programs (http://media1.hmc.psu.edu/mediasite/catalog). Under the pilot, all large-room lectures would be mediasited and then posted online minutes after the classes ended. Due to the success of the pilot, the school made Mediasite a permanent program and expanded it to record lectures to all second year students in January. During this academic year, lectures to the first year students were viewed a total of 22,451 times, averaging out to about 59.1 views per lecture by a class of 154 students. Student Mediasite use increased throughout the academic year, with 97 percent of students using Mediasite to review lectures by the semester's end.

Almost half of the students surveyed (41 percent) cited reviewing complicated material as the number one moti
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