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SCIENCES PO EMPLOYS PANASONIC CAMERAS TO CREATE HYBRID AND REMOTE CLASSES
LET’S GET DIGITAL Sciences Po is an internationally acclaimed university in France. Ranked third after Harvard and Oxford for political science, it was integral that staff and students had a reliable remote workflow set-up, due largely to its student population spanning over 150 countries, which presented issues such as variation in time zones, signal qualities, data privacy and internet access. When Covid-19 hit, Sciences Po leveraged its already-substantial history of digital teaching, with several classes and events having been documented with the help of Panasonic for some time. “In this case, the broadcasting of lectures and seminars was already in place. However, due to the pandemic, this needed to be accelerated, rather than continuing the slow transition trajectory,” emphasises product marketing manager of Panasonic Connect Europe, Anna Arkatova. “Sciences Po was extremely confident to choose Panasonic for the next step, due to its existing reliance of our PTZ and studio cameras.” The university team decided it was time to develop the idea of a ‘second campus,’ enabling the option for students to study either fully on-site, purely online or a hybrid mixture. This team only had the summer of 2020 to complete the project, and knew Panasonic’s solutions would allow for a fast evolution. During a crucial entry period into its physical-to-digital transition, Panasonic’s experience and scalability proved the best choice. “Then came Kairos, the latest technological advancement that meant they now not only had a switcher, but something that could manage the full solution, including presentations. This was a no-
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