Colleges and universities of all shapes and sizes
are being challenged as never before to enhance the quality of their courses,
increase the number of students enrolled in paid-for degree programs, and
decrease the overall cost of delivering these courses to an ever-diverse
student body. Fortunately for these higher education institutions, the
entire ProAV industry stands poised today to provide exactly the kind of
integrated, cost-effective systems solutions that will help them achieve all
three of these objectives in an easily managed way, according to Stampede Presentation
Products, Inc. President & COO Kevin Kelly.
“Put simply, the future reach and affordability
of higher education rests in each institution's ability to develop and
implement an effective online distance learning program — but to do this
institutions must start by broadening their view of their "market"
beyond the four walls of a classroom or the walls of their traditional
campuses,” Kelly asserted today.
According
to Kelly, the use of lecture-capture and online streaming has emerged as an
incredible way to offer in-class access to students learning from a remote
location. Similar to other popular ProAV trends utilized on campuses, such as
digital signage, the employment of remote learning technology stands to
completely revolutionize the education market. With a simple and affordable AV
solution, higher education institutions can broadcast their lessons worldwide
to reach more learners than ever before and generate new revenue streams.
“And to this point,” Kelly continued, “a recent
Wall Street Journal profile of Yale University’s use of online lectures stated
that the online lectures have turned its professors into borderline celebrities
and brought them into the homes of thousands of new students all over the
world. The article also highlights several websites that host class lectures,
such as EdX, which features lectures from Harvard University and MIT and has
accrued more than 700,000 users in less than a year. The desire for remote
learning is increasing every day, and the ProAV industry knows exactly what AV
solutions will enable higher education institutions to reach the greatest
number of students possible.”
Higher education providers need to embrace remote
learning in order to stay relevant and attract today’s increasingly diverse
learner population, and the responsibility to inform the market of new and
affordable technological innovations falls in the hands of ProAV integrators
and solutions providers. “With our help, higher education institutions can
realize the absolute necessity of ProAV technology, which will help them
achieve tremendous gains in education now and in the future” Kelly concluded.
About Stampede
Known
for its value-added distribution, Amherst, New York-based Stampede is the
leading distributor of presentation equipment including LCD/DLP projectors and
flat panel displays. Stampede provides a complete range of brand name
presentation equipment to a variety of audio/video, computer, and home theater
resellers and integrators in the United States, Canada and Latin America. These
resellers rely on Stampede for value-added services in distribution, marketing
and solution- based sales. Stampede annually produces the “Big Book of AV,” an
816-page catalog and companion website (www.BigBookofAV.com) providing hundreds
of sales, installation and spec tips for Stampede’s dealers in addition to
product details on more than 5,000 SKUs. For more information on Stampede, log
onto www.stampedeglobal.com.
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