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…
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…
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…
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…
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 – 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…
Increasing Enrollment and Serving More Students through Live Streaming and Online Learning
Although recent studies indicate that traditional college enrollment is flat or falling, more students are taking online courses than ever before. For students, online courses can offer flexibility and convenience. And for institutions, online courses allow them to serve more students and extend teaching and learning beyond the four walls of a classroom or boundaries…
21 Ways to Teach with Echo360 – 15) Teaching to a class of distance learners
This is the sixteenth blog in our how-to series for educators and example 15 out of 21 ways to teach with Echo360. Read the introduction to this series here. Why should I teach to a class of distance learners? There can be many reasons why we teach to a group of remote learners, but one things…
Delivering Innovation in Education at One of the Best University Systems in the World – A Case Study
Finland has a long and well-deserved reputation for innovation in education which appears to yield results, with its universities recently ranking as the highest performing in the world. Within its higher education system, the country has two over-arching goals: – Offer learning environments that are among the best in the world, and, – Provide flexible and…