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…
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…
Making Video Inclusive and Accessible for All Learners
“I (or my institution) have everything I need to make video inclusive and accessible to all learners.” Participants attending a session titled, “Making Video Inclusive and Accessible: A Panel Discussion,” at our recent North American User Community Conference were asked to respond to the statement above. It became the focus of the ensuing panel discussion,…
Creating a More Immersive Learning Environment Using Transcription
If there was an affordable way to consistently create highly accurate transcripts of all classroom lectures and presentations, should students still take handwritten notes in class? That’s the provocative question posed by Echo360 CEO, Fred Singer, and University of Michigan Professor, Dr. Perry Samson, in a recent article published on Inside Higher Ed. They contend…
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 Video Helps UIUC Vet Med Educate and Train the Next-Generation of Veterinarians
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Veterinary Medicine (UIUC Vet Med), video plays an important role in modern veterinary education. Since 2011, UIUC Vet Med has used Echo360 to record all the lectures presented in the College’s core Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program. The College began using Echo360’s cloud-based solution in…
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…