{"id":8555,"date":"2018-09-20T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newinsights.oeb.global\/?p=8555"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T09:53:44","slug":"how-a-video-cms-solves-the-challenges-of-teaching-learning-and-training-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/how-a-video-cms-solves-the-challenges-of-teaching-learning-and-training-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Video CMS Solves the Challenges of Teaching, Learning and Training with Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many organisations, creating and managing video can require a complex map of disconnected systems and software. Today an organisation may easily use eight different video solutions for:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Recording on-demand video<\/li>\n
  2. Recording screen content<\/li>\n
  3. Live streaming events<\/li>\n
  4. Editing videos<\/li>\n
  5. Compressing and transcoding videos<\/li>\n
  6. Indexing video content for search<\/li>\n
  7. Storing and playing videos<\/li>\n
  8. Optimizing video delivery<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    It\u2019s expensive and inefficient to manage video this way.<\/p>\n

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    However, there is now a single technology that solves the biggest challenges organisations face when it comes to using video to enhance teaching, learning and training – a video content management system, or video CMS. A video CMS<\/a><\/u> is a secure, central platform designed for creating, managing, and sharing video content.<\/p>\n

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    Here are five ways a Video CMS can help:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. No storage limits<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      A video CMS is built to store large video files and support huge video libraries<\/a><\/u>. There is theoretically no upper limit on the size of a video file you can upload or the number of videos you can store in your video CMS. Even if you\u2019re sharing an eight-hour video from an all-day course (a video file that may be 30-40GB in size), you can upload it as-is to your video CMS.<\/p>\n

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      Most video CMSs also offer a cloud-hosted option<\/a><\/u> (in addition to an on-premise model), which takes advantage of plummeting cloud storage prices and economies of scale that bring cloud storage costs to almost zero. These systems were designed to scale up, so even as your video library grows larger, your costs don\u2019t increase.<\/p>\n

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      1. Automated video file formatting<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Today\u2019s video CMSs include built-in transcoding engines<\/a><\/u>. This means that the video CMS will standardize every video you upload, whatever the file type, so it can be played back on any device. No one in your organisation will ever have to spend time testing and converting video files again. Your learners will be able to access learning content using the device of their choice, whenever, wherever.<\/p>\n

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        1. Network-friendly video streaming<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          When thinking about scaling up with video, there\u2019s an important technical hurdle to clear for most organisations: the available bandwidth on your network.<\/p>\n

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          A video CMS can assist here through the use of \u2018modern video streaming<\/a><\/u>\u2019 – an approach which means learners don\u2019t download videos in their entirety. Instead, the video CMS splits each video into tiny sequential segments (called \u201cchunks\u201d). These chunks are sent to the learner\u2019s device one-by-one, played by the device, and then thrown away. As a result, devices like smartphones (with limited storage) never run the risk of running out of space.<\/p>\n

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          Modern streaming also supports \u2018adaptive bitrate streaming\u2019, meaning that during playback, the video CMS optimises playback for the viewer\u2019s network connection by continuously detecting the available bandwidth in real time. Even if the viewer\u2019s connection changes during playback, the video CMS will adjust the quality and bitrate of the video stream accordingly.<\/p>\n

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          1. Search the words inside your videos<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            There\u2019s another important step a VCMS will automatically take for you; all of the content in your recording – including every word spoken by the presenter and every word shown on-screen – will be indexed for search. Unlike older systems that rely only on manual tags and titles to support search, a video CMS applies two newer technologies to make it possible to search inside<\/em> your videos:<\/p>\n