Case Study: Hybrid education with AREC - case from Kazakhstani Academy

Dear ADENA Partners, we are excited to share with you a case study from the education sector. Our partner STEPLine successfully renovated classrooms of Kunaev Academy and equipped them with AREC Lecture Capture and Auto-Tracking PTZ cameras. The academy is now able to record lectures for students to recap and stream to a local server for the purposes of hybrid education.

Kunaev Eurasian Law Academy was established soon after the declaration of independence of Kazakhstan and rapidly came to the forefront of jurisprudence and legal education. While it started out as a law institute, in recent years the academy also focused on business education, offering courses to future economists, accountants, managers and entrepreneurs. To make sure that the business education provided by Kunaev Academy is just as valued as that of its other departments, the academy decided to build the most modern AV environment for education. To this end our partner STEPLine designed a solution that involves interactive displays, audio systems, video matrixes, as well as AREC Media Stations and Auto-Tracking Cameras.

To mix, record, and stream computer content and two cameras, Kunaev Academy uses AREC LS-300 Media Station - a rack-mounted model capable of recording 3 Full HD sources simultaneously. Lecturers use an LG Touch Display to make notes and display slides which are then recorded by the LS-300 and mixed together with the IR auto-tracking camera CI-T25H and static wide-angle network camera CI-303. The tracking camera follows the lecturer’s movements and adjusts zoom automatically to get the perfect shot, whereas the static camera CI-303 shows students attending in person. The computer image is duplicated on a display in the middle of the room, making sure that all students can see slides clearly, whereas another display shows the image from the tracking camera. An LD wireless microphone system is used to record the teacher's voice and additional microphones are passed to students asking questions. Lastly, an AUDAC system makes sure that all audio in the room is loud and clear regardless of where any student sits.

While they are only starting to use the equipment, Kunaev Academy already found AREC’s solutions to be very easy to use - all the teacher needs to do when starting a class is to press a button to record and stream the session to their private server. It now joins our long list of higher education institutions solving their lecture capture and hybrid education needs with AREC.

Would you like to upgrade your AV systems too? Visit us at a-dena.com and we will be happy to assist you!

Case Study: Top school of Latvia chooses AREC as an e-learning solution

Dear ADENA Partners, there are many applications for lecture capture products in all vertical markets, but the most common ones are related to education. To highlight how AREC products can be used for different types of educational institutions, we want to share a case study from our partner Sensuslab - they outfitted an innovative classroom for the Valsts Administration School in Latvia.

Known as Valsts administrācijas skola, the school is the largest training center for public administration employees in the country and prepares around 12,000 professionals for the public sector yearly. The school combines classic and modern teaching methods - it offers traditional class tutoring, but also interactive e-courses, all to provide the best possible learning experience for its students. In addition to creating an outstanding curriculum, however, a school also needs professional learning tools and technologies. Lecture capture products, interactive displays, and professional PTZ cameras - all improve the hybrid education quality and intelligibility, and so the school chose AREC Media Capture System to enhance its e-course classroom.

To record and stream lecture content and PTZ camera feed, our partner Sensuslab recommended LS-300 Media Station, a 3-channel model. It can simultaneously record and stream a video made of three different sources to two RTMP platforms. This video can include overlays, such as school logos or lecturer credentials, and backgrounds that help emphasize lecture content or serve branding purposes. A defining feature of LS-300 is its ease of use - it can be controlled in many ways, including via the Graphical User Interface, or GUI for short. GUI can be used on any connected display either with a computer mouse or touch input and the school uses it through A-TS01, AREC’s Interactive Touch Display made specifically for lecturers’ convenience. Through this display and LS-300’s inbuilt switcher, it is possible to select any combination of network PTZ cameras and computer content with just one touch, making it really easy for the lecturer to focus on the class and not worry about technology.

Valsts Administration School is another educational institution that successfully improved its e-learning tools with AREC.

Is your institution looking for a cost-effective way of bolstering the quality of provided education material? Contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will happily advise you how to do that!

Case Study: Hybrid Education with AREC for Banking University in Poland

Dear ADENA Partners, our end of the year case study this time is the Polish WSB University. Together with our official distributor Kontel, integrator Tritech installed several complete sets of AREC systems for professional lecture capture, live streaming, and auto-tracking.

WSB University is one of the highest-ranked private universities of Poland - this year it ranked 3rd in the annual report of the Perspektywy Education Foundation. It has 10 campuses spread across the country and offers a variety of programs, such as law, healthcare-related disciplines, and information technologies. However, as the official name “Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa” (Higher School of Banking) implies, the university is most known for its banking and finance management courses. To further improve the quality of education provided in these disciplines, WSB decided to upgrade its hybrid education setup with AREC systems for lecture capture, streaming, and auto-tracking.

Several sets of LS-300, CI-T21H, and A-BR01 were installed for the university. The main component of these sets, LS-300, is a 3 channel Media Station that makes it easy to connect computers, IP cameras, document cameras, amplifiers and other audio and video sources for recording and streaming. One of the key advantages of AREC Media Stations are their multiple and straightforward control options, such as the Online Director web interface, numeric keypads, and the graphical user interface, all of which are used by the university. Another advantage is how well suited the station is for hybrid education - its two video outputs are used to loop PC content for students attending in person via the VGA port and send complete mixed video with camera feed via the HDMI port to A-BR01 for MS Teams, where the Media Station appears as a USB webcam and microphone for remote students. In terms of image, CI-T21H Auto Tracking camera makes sure that the university’s lecturers are able to carry out their work without worrying about the camera’s image, focus, and PTZ. All of these parameters are adjusted automatically thanks to the AM-600 IR positioner, and all the users need to do to make it work is to turn it on.

With AREC systems in place, the university has elevated its hybrid education to a new high. Is your university in need of an easy-to-use and complete solution? Contact us at www.a-dena.com and we will be happy to discuss how AREC can help in your case.