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Recapping 30 Days of Lecture Capture: Everything You Need to Know

We devoted the entire month of June to one of the foundational technologies of active learning: lecture capture. From blended learning and flipped classrooms to distance learning, lecture capture is the technology that makes it all happen. We covered a lot of ground last month, talking about the underlying pedagogy, the technology itself, elements of…

Modernizing Online Education with Echo360

One of the most interesting presentations at our recent Active Learning Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago was made by a team of active learning rock stars from University of Western Ontario (Western) in Canada. The session, presented by Kem Rogers, PhD and Sonya E. Van Nuland, MSc could easily have been titled,…

Summer’s Halfway Over. Time to Act on Your Lecture Capture Plan.

Click on the calendar to read the individual blogs for each of the 30 Days of Lecture Capture. We hope you’ve picked up some great tips and fun facts over the course of the 30 Days of Lecture Capture that have changed the way you’ll view lecture capture technology forever. If you took the…

Cloud Lecture Capture: Faster, Better and 89% Cheaper

Over the past years, lecture capture cloud solutions have proliferated to the point that they’re as ubiquitous as those big white fluffy masses high in the sky. But just like the cirrus, cumulus and cumulonimbus structures you learned about in junior high meteorology, not all IT clouds are created equal. There’s cloud technology and then…

Show Me the Money! Funding Your Lecture Capture Solution

Over the past month, we’ve published a blog every day highlighting the power of lecture capture technology. We’ve shown you the research; students not only want this technology to help them achieve their goals, it actually works to improve student outcomes. We’ve also shared success stories about how this solution enables advanced learning methods such…

Lecture Capture Gets the Student Vote – Hands Down

With nearly four in ten college students using two or more technology devices[1] during the average school day, it’s no surprise that blended learning using lecture capture gets the majority vote as their preferred method of learning. For the tech-savvy student, having mobile access to their education is as natural as their 24/7 social media…

When it Comes to Lecture Capture Editing, Simple is Best

All your instructors want to do with their video editing is trim viewing time, or extract a clip for future use—not create the sequel to “Avatar.” But the editing features on most lecture capture solutions are not designed with educators in mind. Most are so complicated, they require a Hollywood production crew for back up….

Not All Mobile Lecture Capture Solutions Are Created Equal

As mobile devices proliferate and learning increasingly happens anywhere at any time, one secret weapon separates the good from the great: HTML5. In techie terms, it allows lecture capture providers, like Echo360, to make file sizes 40 percent smaller and increase throughput. In terms of learning, the real-life and practical usability benefits are many: Built…

96% of City University of Hong Kong Students Want More Lecture Capture

The City University of Hong Kong has more than 20,000 students enrolled in over 30 graduate and undergraduate degree programs. The institution uses state-of-the-art technology to deliver curriculum to an increasingly mobile and diverse student population. Since 2009, City U Hong Kong has used Echo360 lecture capture technology to allow their instructors to develop innovative…

7 Lecture Capture Content Management Features Made for Instructors

If you’ve been following our 30 Days of Lecture Capture campaign, you know that lecture capture with Echo360 is much more than just recording and distributing classroom videos. Our solution was built for educators, by educators – who understand the concerns of instructors, especially when it comes to their instructional content and workflows. That’s why…

Can Lecture Capture Save PowerPoint?

Over 30 million PowerPoint presentations are made each and every day. So I had to chuckle when Rebecca Shuman of Slate magazine called digital presentations the “scourge of higher education.” Not to be out done, PowerPoint itself is the “Comic sans of instructional tools.” A tool so dreaded, it is the equivalent of the world’s…

North Coast TAFE: Using Video to Support All Learning Styles

North Coast TAFE teaches a broad spectrum of students, both on and off campus, across seventeen campuses up and down the coast of New South Wales. An award-winning vocational training provider, the institution has implemented Echo360 to help facilitate flexible, active learning across a wide array of disciplines. Many of the courses of study revolve…

The Insider’s Secrets to Confident Capture: Scheduling and Monitoring

The Echo360 On-Air Light is Visual Cue that Recordings are Happening as Planned It takes a lot of confidence to be a teacher. (Engaging the disengaged, and the ability to explain something to a huge class and have them retain it!) When you’re standing in front of a full classroom and using lecture capture, you…

[INFOGRAPHIC] Grow Lecture Capture without the Growing Pains

Matching supply to demand. For instructors and students, it’s just another lesson in Economics 101. For the IT staff managing lecture capture for a growing institution, however, the phrase can conjure up nightmare visions of bottlenecks, student complaints and months and months of building up the infrastructure to handle the demand. By the time…

[INFOGRAPHIC]: Pick Your Pedagogy for Lecture Capture

We’ve spent two days this week looking at the types of technology capture solutions available – namely software and hardware. But the debate doesn’t stop there. Today, we look at what matters most: Teaching. Just like matching the right wine to a gourmet meal or the right Instagram filter to a photo of autumn leaves…

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