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Lecture Capture Helps Personalize Distance Learning

Alphacrucis College offers undergraduate, graduate, and vocational programs in theology and Christian leadership studies. With campuses located throughout Australia and New Zealand, the college serves a diverse and geographically dispersed student population. But, by adopting Echo360 lecture capture technology, Alphacrucis is able to creatively connect with students who might not otherwise be able to study…

First Ever Canvas Gradebook Integration for Lecture Capture

Integrations, or the ability to work with seamlessly with other technology systems, should be at the top of every lecture capture shopper’s checklist. Integrations fuel adoption, lower staff time to maintain solutions and increase student satisfaction. That’s why we’re especially excited to announce an expanded partnership with Canvas by Instructure today. This is a partnership…

Non-Traditional Students Need Flexible, Active Learning

Non-traditional students are increasing in numbers across higher education institutions worldwide. As more and more adults return to college or vocational training programs, they want flexible learning programs to help them learn at their own pace while balancing work, family and other obligations. Digital learning solutions, like the Echo360 Active Learning Platform, provide mobile learning…

Using Echo360 Video to Enhance Learning by Doing

The Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) is leading the pack when it comes to using innovative technologies to offer more flexible, active learning to prepare more than 5,500 full-time and part-time students for sustainable careers. The institution was put to the test in delivering education to students in the aftermath…

Software vs. Hardware Lecture Capture: Day 2

Yesterday, we teed up the epic battle between software and hardware capture options. Now let’s take a look at the fighters in the other corner: Classroom Capture and Personal Capture, otherwise known as the software solutions. These contenders are preferred by wise folks who want the benefits of capture without spending extra for hardware. Both…

Software vs. Hardware Lecture Capture: Day 1

Echo360 is the perfect choice for classrooms needing HD video or live webcasting. Beatles vs. Stones. Dogs vs. cats. Cronut vs. cupcake. Some choices divide people in decidedly distinctive fan camps. The choice of lecture capture via software or hardware is one of them. That’s why we’re devoting 3 days out of the 30…

Accessibility: Leveling the Learning Field

In addition to navigating the complexities of college life, visually and hearing impaired students and those who have ADHD or other learning differences face additional struggles to keep up in the classroom. Many institutions, like Worcester Polytechnic Institute, are turning to lecture capture solutions to accommodate students with unique accessibility needs and meet…

Lecture Capture Adoption, Simplicity Rules the Roost

Educause Core Data Service 2014 reports the average central IT budget spends $906 per student each and every year. That adds up to $10.3 billion annually, according to the Center for Digital Education. Fantastic! Our classrooms are flush with technology that are all changing teaching and learning, right? Not so fast. Integrating technology into teaching…

Lecture Capture and STEM Education. It’s a Two-Way Communication.

Last week we invited you to review the research from a 3-year study on the success of the flipped classroom at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Many educators seem to agree that there is a natural fit for technology such as lecture capture and for advanced active learning methods such as flipped…

Lecture Capture: Meet Student Engagement.

In the past, lecture capture was a one-way conversation. The instructor would record her lesson in the same way in which it would have been presented in the classroom. Students would watch it (hopefully) and that was that. But, this kind of passive, broadcast only approach no longer receives a passing grade in the modern…

Lecture Capture Analytics have Graduated to Learning Analytics

With traditional lecture capture solutions, instructors and academic leadership can chart the number of recording views. That’s helpful – if you’re selling advertising on YouTube. Not likely for most educators. More than ever, institutions want to know how their tech investments – including lecture capture – improve teaching and learning, and more specifically, student outcomes. …

Flexible and Active Learning Experience for All Students

Many TAFE, VET and RTO students find themselves precariously trying to juggle outside work and family responsibilities with rigorous, hands-on coursework. For students with time-crunched schedules, the hour or two of class time may not be enough to master the practical skills and knowledge they need to be workforce ready. That’s why institutions across Australia…

Peer-to-Peer Instructor Training Helps Instructors Succeed

So you’ve evaluated all of the options, chosen a lecture capture solution and your IT team has worked together to make sure that you’re ready to hit the ground running at the start of your semester. Congratulations! Now the real work begins. You’ll need a plan to get your instructors up to speed using the…

Your Anytime, Anywhere, Lecture Capture Study Buddy

For the last 50 years, studying went a little something like this: Student goes to class, takes notes on the parts that seem important in a notebook…and in the margins of the textbook and on loose leaf paper he or she had to borrow from a friend. Then, when it came time to study for…

Does Lecture Capture Help Students? Five Studies that End the Debate

Almost every school looking at lecture capture grapples with questions about its efficacy and usage. It’s understandable. Lecture capture requires significant financial and time investment on the part of universities. From CIOs to deans and instructors, the debate is ongoing: Does lecture capture improve learning outcomes? Do students still come to class? Do students like…

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