ICYMI: Final Day of Echo360 User Community Conference Focuses on How Echo360 Supports Higher Education’s “Hybrid Future”
Users Share How Echo360 Provides Critical Tools to Help Meet the Post-COVID Demands for Online and Hybrid Learning Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This is the third in a series of three articles recapping presentations from each day. The final day of our user community conference featured users whose experience…
EdTech Leaders Share the Benefits of Replacing Kaltura with Echo360 as Their Campus Video Platform
Lowering costs, reducing complexity, and providing better user experiences are the primary benefits of standardizing on Echo360 Two EdTech leaders recently shared reasons why their institutions selected Echo360 over Kaltura when consolidating their campus video applications. They described how, with Echo360, they can effectively manage all their video content on campus while providing their faculty…
The Echo360 European Academic Champions Spearhead a New Era for Student Engagement
What are the best active learning techniques for increasing student engagement? How can universities embed them more deeply? And how could students use lecture recordings more effectively in their studies? These are just a few of the questions that will be answered by the universities selected to participate in Echo360’s Academic Champions Grant programme for…
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…
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 –…
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…
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…
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 – 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…