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As an instructor you want to offer podcasts to your students, but are concerned about losing control of your intellectual property. If you write a textbook, which might take years of work, you get a mere 12% of the royalties. There is an easier way: imagine earning thousands of dollars a year for doing exactly what you already do in your classroom right now. Box Populi is launching a royalty sharing solution which enables you as a college professor to earn money when you create podcasts of your lectures for your students. First, set the price for your podcasts; $1 per class hour, $20 or $50 for the entire course, it is entirely up to you. Then, walk into your classroom and plug your security key into the automatic podcasting device to start creating a podcast, and remove it to stop. Everything else is automatic: from that simple action your students then get your lecture on their iPod, laptop, cell phone, or home computer. Watch the 45 second video of this process here -- it really is this easy to offer podcasts of your lectures. Our system handles everything else, from creation, to management, to delivery to your students' iPods, and we hand you a check 30 days after the quarter has begun. At the end of the course we can automatically delete the podcasts, so your intellectual property is protected and secure for future classes. You don't have to know anything about the technical details of podcasting, nor do you have to worry about storage, security, bandwidth or billing systems; you just give a classroom lecture the same way you've always done and collect a check. If you price your podcasts at $25 a course, and you teach 30 students in three classes, you can earn over $4000 a year in extra income. If your podcasts are priced at $50 a course, you can earn more than $8000 a year. These numbers vary depending on the percentage you share with your college or university, but you directly reap the rewards by offering your students the flexibility and freedom of podcasting and all by doing nothing more than teaching in class everyday. This opportunity is initially limited in participation, so read more below.
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As a school administrator you are already considering podcasting as a way to benefit and retain students, but the costs are prohibitive. Production costs for a single class can range from $6000 to $30000 for video capture and processing alone, not to mention costs for hosting, management and staff additions and training (Read the analysis here). Box Populi offers an open source podcasting device which can be used on any computer, even older recycled ones, to deliver podcasting for 10% of the cost of other video capture devices that cost $10000 to $25000 and beyond. Once the device is configured, there is zero cost to operate: your instructors plug in their security key when they are ready to podcast to their students, with no additional labor or investment in production. It really is this simple, watch and verify for yourself here. The Box Populi royalty sharing solution enables your institution to provide podcasts to your students for very low costs in production and no or very little extra money up front. If your institution has even 100 classrooms with 6 classes each day, and each podcast is priced at $25, you can bring in over $200,000 in new revenue by keeping only 20% of the royalties and sharing the rest with the instructors who teach those classes.
If you charge $50 a podcast, you keep over $400,000 in new revenues for your school.
Best of all, you can outfit those classrooms for a one time cost of $20,000.
If you are interested in a campus wide deployment of Box Populi podcasting technology, please contact us for more information at campus@boxpopuli.com.
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What do your students get out of it? Most importantly they get the flexibility of listening to your classroom lectures on their iPod, or on their computer, when and where they want to. Students with full time jobs, or children, or language difficulties can still actively participate in your classes. Students also can take notes, chat about the class podcasts, and interact with the instructor at their own pace and despite their hectic schedules. This is an incredible opportunity to taking education back to the way it used to be, centered around discussion and active learning while addressing the reality that is their busy lives. You can provide this to your students with the flexibility of podcasting, and for less than half the price of a single textbook.
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This offer is limited. Please visit the royalty sharing solution participation page for more information.
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We will be allowing students to purchase podcasts using our royalty sharing solution on September 1st.
You can download our Podcast in a Box CD-ROM software immediately from our
website to evaluate and use right now, or you can purchase one of our Podcast in a Box devices by
emailing sales@boxpopuli.com. We will provide you with test accounts for the service in late July.
In August you will be able to submit your pricing information and we will be providing you with
information on how to present this opportunity to your students.
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We will be offering training sessions around the country on how to use the Podcast in a Box and Box Populi Management Service. Please sign up to receive more information about training.
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