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Over 120 Colleges and Universities Embrace Echo360’s Groundbreaking Video Capture Software

You asked for it and we delivered. With the release of Echo360 Universal Capture, we’ve made it easier than ever for instructors and students to create and share high-quality video content. Mac users? Windows users? It doesn’t matter. Universal Capture is the only video software solution that offers an identical experience on Mac and Windows…

Choosing a Cutting-Edge Lecture Capture Solution for the Future – A Case Study from the University of Edinburgh

As is the case at many universities, student demand for lecture recordings at the University of Edinburgh was increasing. At the same time, the University wanted a lecture capture system that would help increase student success. With these factors in mind, the University embarked on a radically different method of procurement to ensure that it…

Video and Project-Based Learning Give Architectural Engineering Students Skills to Succeed On-the-Job

In his recent Echo360 instructor webinar, Anton Harfmann, professor and director of architectural engineering at the University of Cincinnati described the opportunities and challenges of using a Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach to prepare students for professional practice. With this pedagogical approach, students can internalize concepts faster as they apply them in practical, just-in-time delivery. However,…

Roosevelt University College of Pharmacy Launches New Video Learning Initiative to Support Student Engagement

At Roosevelt University’s College of Pharmacy – Illinois’ oldest three-year Doctor of Pharmacy program – faculty were looking for more ways to engage students in class. Additionally, the recording of classes had been frequently requested as a student service and for remediation if certain faculty weren’t available to reteach a topic. After evaluating multiple solutions, Roosevelt…

Blended and Video-Based Freshman Experience Program Improves Student Retention

As part of their mission to improve student learning and to prepare for the rigorous accreditation review by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), Lander University developed a comprehensive Quality Enhancement Plan centered around an innovative first-year experience program, called the Leadership, Involvement, Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Program. The program…

Inside Higher Education Webinar: Improving Student Success with Video and Active Learning

In a recent webinar hosted by Inside Higher Education, three leading universities described some of the innovative ways they use Echo360 academic video technology to improve student success. Presenters from the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the University of Toledo, and the University of Cincinnati shared how their institutions have moved beyond traditional lecture capture…

Consolidating Video and Student Engagement Tools into a Single Platform to Drive Adoption and Achieve Cost Efficiencies

Southern Illinois University (SIU) has a long tradition of nurturing student success, access, and opportunity through outstanding teaching. Increasingly, educational technology has played an important role in helping to achieve those goals, and in 2015, SIU selected Echo360 as its academic video platform. The selection had benefits for instructors, students, and administrators alike. Instructors only had…

What We Accomplished in 2018, and Our Path For Success in 2019

2018 was a big year for Echo360. Working together with more than 1,200 schools, we’ve enhanced distance learning and on-campus video learning programs for millions of students around the world. With more than 51 million measured student interactions and 20 million hours of faculty-recorded learning content viewed in 2018, we have been busy delivering on…

When Weather Turns Bad, Take Your Class Online – Continue Teaching by Live-Streaming Your Lecture

As a meteorologist, Dr. Perry Samson is no stranger to inclement weather. Students in Samson’s “Extreme Weather” course at the University of Michigan learn firsthand about hurricanes, tornadoes and how climate change can intensify the effects of weather around the world. So, when Winter Storm Jayden forced the University to cancel classes for only the…

21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 21) Encourage Active Learning in your Class

This is the twenty-second and final blog in our how-to series for educators and example 21 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I encourage active learning in my class? Throughout this blog series we have seen various examples of how the engagement tools in…

Student Reaction to Echo360’s Innovative Automated Speech Recognition Solution at LSU Health Sciences

Recently, Kent Judkins, Media Specialist and Echo360 administrator at LSU Health Sciences presented the new Echo360 automated speech recognition(ASR) solution to a lecture hall filled with 150 students. This is the first time they had seen the solution and its capabilities. Their reaction is, well . . . priceless. While a few video platform companies…

21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 20) Create video-based learning activities in your LMS

This is the twenty-first blog in our how-to series for educators and example 20 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I create video-based learning activities in my LMS? Video-based learning is very effective for self-directed student learning as educative videos make it possible to learn…

21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 19) Use Confusion Alerts to Review Teaching Delivery

This is the twentieth blog in our how-to series for educators and example 19 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I use confusion alerts to review my teaching delivery? We often rely on students to tell us when they are confused in class. They are…

21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 18) Using Learning Analytics During my Class

This is the nineteenth blog in our how-to series for educators and example 18 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I use learning analytics during my class? Whilst there is much talk about big data, there is little said about the practical uses of analytics…

21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 17) Create and Facilitate an Open, Online Course

This is the eighteenth blog in our how-to series for educators and example 17 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I create and facilitate an open, online course? The emergence of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) in the past 10 years has highlighted the potential…

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