Create, Curate, Educate: Echo360 ANZ’s 12th Annual Conference
If you missed the 12th Annual ANZ Echo360 conference, you will have missed the clear message that change continues to be afoot in the capture world. Every year we gather to celebrate the hard work Echo360 users have put in to implementing the platform across their campuses. We eat, drink and are merry; we hear…
Scaling Video and Lecture Capture Technology University-Wide: A Case Study from Sheffield University
The University of Sheffield prides itself for being a world-class university that provides a unique student learning experience. To continue their commitment to meet the needs of its diverse student body, the University recently expanded the use of Echo360 lecture capture technology campus-wide. With this expansion, by the end of the 2017-18 academic year, every…
EDUCAUSE 2017 Recap – 3 Ways Echo360 is Meeting the Needs of Higher Education
The curtain has fallen on EDUCAUSE 2017 and the research coming out of the conference indicates that faculty and students alike see the positive impact technology has on the teaching and learning experience. The Campus Technology 2017 Technology Survey revealed that more than 80 percent of the faculty members surveyed say that technology has a…
The New Echo360 Supports Advanced, Modern-Day Learning
It was almost two decades ago, around the fall of 2000, that seasoned administrator, faculty member, and classroom technology maven Sherri Restauri, now the Director of Online Learning at Coastal Carolina University, began pushing to integrate video platform technology into the classroom. At the time, Sherri says, the technology was still in its earliest phases….
Echo360’s 12th Annual Users Conference – Don’t have FOMO
To quote the Dalai Lama, “You won’t understand the unabashed power of a community until you are part of one”. Anyone who attended Echo360’s Active Learning conference in Melbourne last year would have experienced one of those communities first hand. From the buzz and happy chatter of people re-connecting as old friends do, to the…
3 Ways Technology Supports Learning for 21st Century Students
Institutions of higher learning must serve a more diverse group of students than ever before. Students today have different experiences, expectations, and needs from those in the past. Many of them are being taught skills for jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago (think data scientist, cloud computing specialist, and drone operator, just to name…
Augusta University Expands Use of Echo360 University-Wide to Meet Increased Student Demand for Video
Augusta University recently expanded the use of Echo360’s cloud-based academic video platform to offer real-time access to academic content and lectures across the university’s nine colleges and schools. The effort stems, in large part, from an unprecedented student demand for academic video. In the past year alone, Augusta experienced an over 250 percent increase in…
Connecting Minds – It Takes a Village. A Recap of the THETA 2017 Conference
Echo360 Learning Technologist Alison Maloney shares her insights in this recap of the THETA 2017 Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. Echo360 was used to record all keynote presentations and conference sessions. “Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.” – Steven Anderson Japanese Honey Bees have a process of communication and collaboration within the…
Vocational Training Institutions Offer a Flexible Edge for Today’s Students
Today’s students look different than years ago and often struggle to keep up-to-date with their studies given the demands of work and everyday life obligations. To address this challenge, TAFE and RTO institutions in Australia and New Zealand are finding new and creative ways to reach students both inside and outside of the classroom and…
5 Ways to Make Your Lecture More Interactive and Engaging
This is part two of a two-part blog series on the BETT 2017 exhibition and conference by Echo360 Solutions Engineer, Dr John Couperthwaite. The following ideas are just five of many examples which could be employed to reinvent teaching in lectures. Each are based upon the Echo360 active learning platform which integrates the affordances of…