ME2U Webinar Recap: Do Screencasts Remove Distance from Online Learning?
Participants worldwide tuned in for our webinar on February 8, titled Blended Learning Best in Class: Taking the Distance Out of Online Learning. The webinar spotlighted the findings of an Echo360 grant-supported research project at the University of Sussex examining … Continue reading
2011 Blended Learning Grant Recipients Recognized for Successful Proposals on the Broad Impact of Lecture Capture
Echo360 is very proud of our Blended Learning Grants Program that champions thought-provoking research on behalf of our clients. It seeks to empower them in their efforts to understand more about the learning and teaching impacts of blended learning technology. … Continue reading
ME2U Research Project: Find Out Why Online Doesn’t Equal “Distant”
One of the most common misconceptions surrounding blended learning is that the use of online learning tools creates distance between students, instructors and the traditional brick and mortar classroom. An upcoming Webinar, Blended Learning Best in Class: Taking the Distance … Continue reading
Conscientious versus cramming: what can lecture capture research teach us about student use of blended learning technologies?
According to surveys conducted all over the world, the overwhelming majority of higher education students – once exposed to it – greatly value the affordances offered to them through lecture capture. They rate highly the ability to re-live the lecture … Continue reading
Why More Vendors Should Support Technology Research
Jocasta Williams is the Director of Australian Operations for Echo360 and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She is also the program manager for the 2011 Blended Learning Research Grants Program. Jocasta authored or co-authored … Continue reading
Echo360 is Up 74% and Why it Matters
2011 has already been a busy year for Echo360. We were acknowledged by Frost & Sullivan to have the outstanding product line. We moved beyond lecture capture with the launch of EchoSystem 4.0 and SafeCapture HD. And today, on the … Continue reading
10% Increase in Grades at Bergen Community College
Ed Pittarelli is the Dean of Virtual Studies at Bergen Community College in New York and has spearheaded the institution’s vision for lecture capture at school. Dean Pittarelli a guest blogger sharing the school’s findings surrounding lecture capture here. Over … Continue reading
Tablets enroll in remote, paperless classroom
The new EchoSystem 4 from Echo360 is looking to add another important tool to universities that want to build and utilize a virtual, paperless classroom environment. It should be a welcome tool for students everywhere (until they realize it’ll make … Continue reading
Lecture Capture: Lights! Camera! Action!
As lecture capture becomes commonplace on campus, faculty discuss how it’s changing the way they teach, spurring in-class dialogue, and forcing them to become better instructors. Advanced capture technology has become almost ubiquitous in higher education: If your institution doesn’t … Continue reading
CIO Handbook: Selecting a Lecture Capture Solution
In the era of doing more with a smaller budget, blended learning techniques and technologies provide much-needed solutions to higher education institutions. Blended learning can help solve course availability, student retention and distance education problems, while providing benefits such as … Continue reading
