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Take the Power of Video Capture Outside of the Classroom and Into the Kitchen or Vineyard

Video is Everywhere. How Can We Best Use It to Support Learning? Type ‘research on using video in higher education’, into Google and you get over 7 billion results! While I didn’t have time to read them all, I know that the blogs, articles and research papers on the first few pages all mention the benefits…

Introducing the 2019 Echo360 North American Academic Champion Grant Recipients

Among the highlights of our recent North American Community User Conference was the introduction of our 2019 North American Academic Champion Grant awardees. This global grant program is designed to promote innovative uses of Echo360 in the classroom, encourage faculty adoption of best practices for academic video, and to explore new ways to use Echo360…

Echo360 Academic Champions – Boosting Student Outcomes with Video and Active Learning on a Global Scale

A select group of instructors and teaching and learning support staff from higher education institutions around the world will focus their efforts on using video and active learning tools to increase student engagement and support teaching excellence. This team of individuals are the Echo360 Academic Champions, who have each been awarded a grant to help…

How Video Helps UIUC Vet Med Educate and Train the Next-Generation of Veterinarians

At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Veterinary Medicine (UIUC Vet Med), video plays an important role in modern veterinary education. Since 2011, UIUC Vet Med has used Echo360 to record all the lectures presented in the College’s core Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program. The College began using Echo360’s cloud-based solution in…

How to Get Started with Zoom Integration, IP Camera Support, and HTTP Live Streaming (HLS)

We recently delivered three of the most requested features that our clients have asked for via the Feedback link in the platform: Zoom integration, IP camera support and HLS (HTTP live streaming). We’re always listening, so if you have something you would like to see us implement, don’t hesitate to ask. The Feedback link can…

Instructors at McMaster University Experience How Students Learn with Video Technology First-Hand

New research reveals that an overwhelming majority of instructors want technology in the classroom. That same research shows that most students (79%) want courses that integrate technology such as video and lecture capture that allows them to access their course content online, anywhere and at any time. But, how can digital learning leaders ensure that…

Our Echo360 Customer Success Team Helps Your Team Excel

To Echo360, higher education is not a market, it is our mission. Our technology was born from research projects at University of Western Australia and University of Michigan, so we have an unwavering commitment to delivering reliable, scalable and affordable video solutions designed specifically for higher education. We employ a high-touch customer success model designed…

What You Need to Know About the 2019 Echo360 European Community Conference and Why You Shouldn’t Miss Next Year.

The magnificent city of Edinburgh, UK, was the setting for this year’s Echo360 European Community Conference. Our hosts were the Media Hopper Team from The University of Edinburgh, led by Anne-Marie Scott, who have been trail-blazing with the implementation of their Replay lecture recording service across 400 teaching rooms during the past three years –…

Delivering World Leading Physical and Online Learning Spaces

Based in Perth, Western Australia, and with an increasingly global presence, Curtin University is known for an innovative approach to teaching and learning that includes a true commitment to learning space innovation. From lecture capture and live streaming classes with tracking cameras and overhead microphones, to recording practical lessons in simulation labs and real-life patient…

Exploring Smarter Video Transcription to Support Universal Design for Learning and Cost Savings

Higher education institutions share a goal of making learning more accessible to all students. To meet this goal many colleges and universities, including UMass Amherst, have adopted the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in an effort to design curriculum to serve all learners, regardless of ability, disability, age, gender or background. Modern technologies often…

Brock University Launches New Initiative to Cost-effectively Expand High Quality Video Content Usage for Online, Blended and Face-to-face Learning

Colleges and universities around the world are grappling with ways to manage the ever-increasing volume of video on campus. Yet most video content management and storage solutions were not designed to support a university’s primary mission: teaching and learning. Institutions are searching for a solution that supports their academic priorities. Following a competitive evaluation process…

Is it Time for the University Lecture to Evolve?

Are the days of the live university lecture numbered? Or is it time for universities to use their facilities to create a much more collaborative and engaging learning experience for their students? This has been a real hot topic of discussion in universities I’ve been visiting since we asked a panel of academics from University…

How a Preeminent Veterinary Medicine School Uses Video to Support Excellence in Education

As one of only 30 colleges or schools of veterinary medicine in the United States, the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine has championed the use of technology to create an innovative learning environment. This environment and surrounding culture helps them to attract top students from around the U.S. and the world. Increasingly, video…

Two decades of enhancing students’ lives with technology in the classroom – Happy Birthday Echo360

The International Space Station began construction in 1998, Europeans agree on a single currency – the Euro, and in that same year, Echo360’s senior product development engineer Shaun Procter and his colleagues Mike Fardon and Michael Neville made a life changing resource for students. Working in the Faculty of Arts’ Multimedia Centre at The University…

For the First Time, Instructors Can Create Secure Video Assignments through the LMS

While Echo360 has been integrated with the LMS assignment tool for some time now, our new Secure Video Assignments capability gives instructors more flexibility when creating student video assignments using the LMS, with an option to lock the video submission to editing. “Instructors have told us that the problem with leveraging student videos for LMS…

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