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…
How One Instructor Uses Echo360 to Engage and Assess Students
Click here to see the feedback video. I began using Echo360 several years ago as a teaching tool in my online courses. Initially, I used Echo360 to record short videos for my classes to help create a sense of social presence, provide personalized tutorials, and connect course concepts from one week to the next. At…
Virtual Meets Reality in Coastal Carolina Xinyi Tan’s Language Classroom
Guest authored by Sara Sobota & Parag Desai of Coastal Carolina University. As technology continues to reinvent our everyday lives, academic instructors recognize a need to respond to major shifts in our transnational, digital society. The traditional classroom is gradually expanding into virtual territory, a process that offers unique opportunities for lecturers to transform the…
One of the First Echo360 Academic Champions Continues to Strike the Right Notes for Student Success at Collarts in Australia
It’s not often an education institution can boast alumni that have worked with renowned recording artists Fleetwood Mac, helped run major music festivals and even managed surveillance recordings for a police forensics laboratory. But students at Collarts – the Australian College of the Arts – have achieved all of this and more. Jason Torrens, or…
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 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…
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…
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…