Instructors at McMaster University Experience How Students Learn with Video Technology First-Hand
New research reveals that an overwhelming majority of instructors want technology in the classroom. That same research shows that most students (79%) want courses that integrate technology such as video and lecture capture that allows them to access their course content online, anywhere and at any time. But, how can digital learning leaders ensure that…
Our Echo360 Customer Success Team Helps Your Team Excel
To Echo360, higher education is not a market, it is our mission. Our technology was born from research projects at University of Western Australia and University of Michigan, so we have an unwavering commitment to delivering reliable, scalable and affordable video solutions designed specifically for higher education. We employ a high-touch customer success model designed…
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 –…
Delivering World Leading Physical and Online Learning Spaces
Based in Perth, Western Australia, and with an increasingly global presence, Curtin University is known for an innovative approach to teaching and learning that includes a true commitment to learning space innovation. From lecture capture and live streaming classes with tracking cameras and overhead microphones, to recording practical lessons in simulation labs and real-life patient…
Exploring Smarter Video Transcription to Support Universal Design for Learning and Cost Savings
Higher education institutions share a goal of making learning more accessible to all students. To meet this goal many colleges and universities, including UMass Amherst, have adopted the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework in an effort to design curriculum to serve all learners, regardless of ability, disability, age, gender or background. Modern technologies often…
Brock University Launches New Initiative to Cost-effectively Expand High Quality Video Content Usage for Online, Blended and Face-to-face Learning
Colleges and universities around the world are grappling with ways to manage the ever-increasing volume of video on campus. Yet most video content management and storage solutions were not designed to support a university’s primary mission: teaching and learning. Institutions are searching for a solution that supports their academic priorities. Following a competitive evaluation process…
Is it Time for the University Lecture to Evolve?
Are the days of the live university lecture numbered? Or is it time for universities to use their facilities to create a much more collaborative and engaging learning experience for their students? This has been a real hot topic of discussion in universities I’ve been visiting since we asked a panel of academics from University…
How a Preeminent Veterinary Medicine School Uses Video to Support Excellence in Education
As one of only 30 colleges or schools of veterinary medicine in the United States, the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine has championed the use of technology to create an innovative learning environment. This environment and surrounding culture helps them to attract top students from around the U.S. and the world. Increasingly, video…
Two decades of enhancing students’ lives with technology in the classroom – Happy Birthday Echo360
The International Space Station began construction in 1998, Europeans agree on a single currency – the Euro, and in that same year, Echo360’s senior product development engineer Shaun Procter and his colleagues Mike Fardon and Michael Neville made a life changing resource for students. Working in the Faculty of Arts’ Multimedia Centre at The University…
For the First Time, Instructors Can Create Secure Video Assignments through the LMS
While Echo360 has been integrated with the LMS assignment tool for some time now, our new Secure Video Assignments capability gives instructors more flexibility when creating student video assignments using the LMS, with an option to lock the video submission to editing. “Instructors have told us that the problem with leveraging student videos for LMS…