Benefits

The time from end of capture to full audience sampling is about five minutes. Before a student can leave class and walk to a computer, we've simultaneously webcast it, podcast it, and cast [the contents] to Blackboard."
Dr. David Feeney
Director, Digital Media
Temple University

Echo360 Benefits the Entire Campus Community

When forward-thinking schools choose the EchoSystem, results follow. Faculty time becomes more productive. Classroom technology is simplified. Students gain a study aid that fits their lifestyles.

The EchoSystem's automated and affordable systems for lecture capture make the most of campus resources while helping students exceed their academic goals.

Benefits of lecture capture include:

Campus-wide Automated Lecture Capture and Publishing

Campus-wide Automated Lecture Capture and Publishing

  • Easily integrate lecture capture into curriculum
    Gain a competitive advantage through on-demand learning. The EchoSystem's modular product design makes implementation easy, with solutions to meet curriculum, technology, and budgetary needs.
  • Transparent capture
    Automatically schedule, capture, and publish with no additional personnel. Monitor—and make updates—through a central interface.
Improved Student Performance and Satisfaction

Improved Student Performance and Satisfaction

  • Satisfaction propels student achievement
    With the ability to replay and review the full classroom experience, students have a lifestyle-matching tool to improve performance, especially in classes with detailed concepts such as science and math.
  • Decrease fail and drop rates
    Institutions cite a 10% reduction in Ds, Fs, and Ws, while students say the ability to review lectures verbatim helps reinforce key ideas.
Facilitates Distance Learning

Facilitates Distance Learning

  • Repurposed content sharpens competitive edge
    Competition in higher ed is surging as online, for-profit institutions grow. Traditional institutions can gain an edge by delivering the same faculty and lecture content as offered in the classroom.
  • Attract and retain top students
    With virtually no additional labor, time, or training, institutions can offer a robust, rich media curriculum that extends their prestige and reputation to distant students.
Universal Access

Universal Access

  • Equity for all students
    Serve sight and hearing impaired students. With closed captioning, Section 508 (a) certified interfaces, and support for JAWS screen reader, the EchoSystem includes every possible measure to provide the most comprehensive accessibility.
  • Compatible with all platforms
    Reach students on virtually every system— Windows, Mac, or Linux. Podcasts play back on standard iPods and MP3 players.
Easy to Implement

Easy to Implement

  • Auto-functionality leads to quick adoption
    Deployment is as easy as stationing a PC in each classroom. The EchoSystem integrates with existing technologies for automatic capture without an abundance of equipment.
  • Start podcasting and move up
    Tune in to student lifestyles with podcasts, captured and instantly published. Then easily upgrade to playback of full-motion, course visuals and video.
Ease of Integration with Existing Infrastructure

Ease of Integration with Existing Infrastructure

  • Post content automatically, reliably
    Add value to current course management systems with out-of-the-box support for Blackboard, WebCT, iTunesU, and TWEN. Lectures post automatically alongside other course materials.
  • Customize setup options
    Open APIs simplify integration of custom portals, university scheduling, and room control systems.
Outstanding Customer Support

Outstanding Customer Support

  • Relationships foster success
    You'll have a dedicated representative to resolve any issue. Online support includes forums and a knowledge base for fast answers to everyday questions.
  • Gain from EchoHonors rewards
    Our Honors Program clients can access referral and speakers programs, onsite seminars, discount pricing, and extended product pilots.
Solution for Every Budget

Solution for Every Budget

  • Modular approach eases cost barriers
    The EchoSystem has a solution to meet your budget and technology needs. Start podcasting at an affordable site license fee and easily upgrade to rich media capture on a room-by-room basis.
  • Deploy cost-efficiently campus-wide
    Make rich media lectures part of curriculum at a price comparable to the annual operating cost of data projectors.

How institutions benefit:

Four-Year Undergraduate

Four-Year Undergraduate

  • Improve learning and course completion rates in difficult science, technology, and math (STEM) courses; make more productive use of faculty time and existing facilities.
  • Achieve enrollment goals through online and hybrid courses, without being limited by classroom or faculty resources. Automatically create term-long class archives and backups to aid in disaster recovery.
  • Create value for the institution, with minimal additional cost, by helping attract and retain technology-minded students.
Two-Year Undergraduate

Two-Year Undergraduate

  • Help time-pressed students meet educational goals while they balance work and life pressures; counter high attrition and incomplete rates.
  • Deliver Web-based orientation and training to adjunct and part-time faculty.
  • Improve comprehension, especially among students who speak English as a second language.
  • Serve career changers or students in rural locations through repackaging of lecture content for online courses.
MBA/Business

MBA/Business

  • Help students master courses such as finance, calculus, and statistics via repetition and replay.
  • Video playback enables students to observe and improve presentation skills.
  • Attract time-pressed MBA candidates who are looking for flexible online learning that won't compete with job and family commitments.
  • At minimal additional cost, enable broader reach of EMBA programs to working students, remote campuses, corporate universities, and overseas students.
Law Schools

Law Schools

  • Advance an atmosphere of Socratic teaching. Students can focus on oratory during class without fear of missing valuable information.
  • Better than note taking or audio taping. Students improve trial skills via full-motion replay of mock trials, oral arguments rehearsal, and witness interrogation techniques.
  • Increase audiences for seminars and important speakers by providing on-demand access.
  • Create a technology edge over competing schools without additional work or training for faculty.
Medical Schools

Medical Schools

  • Enable full-motion replay of complex concepts and expert procedures and techniques presented during class.
  • Flexible delivery of didactic course content helps students when residency, clinical, or laboratory commitments mean missing a lecture.
  • Provide wider access to highly specialized faculty members and facilities.
  • Deliver more flexible continuing medical education and distance education degree programs via cost effective lecture capture and Web publishing.
Nursing Schools

Nursing Schools

  • Help meet high workplace demand. Cost-effective lecture capture allows for expanded enrollment through online courses and especially among part time and working students in transition to nursing.
  • Deliver more flexible continuing medical education and distance education degree programs.
  • Enable full-motion replay of complex concepts and expert procedures and techniques presented during class.
  • Flexible delivery of didactic course content helps students when residency or clinical commitments mean missing a lecture.
Engineering

Engineering

  • Review of complicated concepts of mathematical formulas raises grades and helps reduce failure rates in core courses.
  • Help improve comprehension when English is the second language for the student or professor.
  • Expand enrollment and reach new students. Cost-effectively customize lecture content for online distance and continuing education programs.
  • Add value to curriculum with capture and archive of specialized lecture content or one-time seminars delivered by expert faculty and guests.

How individuals benefit:

Dean

Dean

  • Take advantage of podcasting and web access. 94% of surveyed students prefer classes with on-demand lecture review.
  • Comprehension improves, Ds, Fs and Ws decline, and student satisfaction climbs.
  • Create a high return on investment. The EchoSystem is designed for long-term compatibility, at less cost than a latté per student.
  • Expand continuing education, online, and distance offerings with minimal faculty cost and no extra training.
Faculty

Faculty

  • Spend less time answering questions covered in the lecture. Your office time becomes more productive.
  • Students achieve more: 80% say Echo360 improves their learning; 94% prefer classes with on-demand lecture review (Survey results courtesy of Temple University).
  • Create access for all students through Blackboard, WebCT, or iTunes U. Easily control when your lectures are displayed and deleted.
Students

Students

  • Any time becomes class time with only a Mac or PC and a web connection.
  • Focus in class without fear of missing lecture content. 80% of students say Echo360 improves their learning (Source: Temple University).
  • Tune-in to podcasts of audio lectures. Watch video captures in full motion playback. DVD-style controls allow review at your own pace.
  • Review it all, from the biggest ideas to the subtlest details. Improve your comprehension and improve your grades.
IT Dept

IT Dept

  • Widely standards-based (XML, HTTP, FTP, etc.) makes the EchoSystem flexible, reliable, and secure. Lectures post automatically to web portals via FTP.
  • The EchoSystem supports Windows Media, Real, or Flash streaming servers. Fully compatible, video can be played back on PC, Mac, and Linux platforms.
  • Content flows over networks with compressed file sizes of 100-300 MB for 60 minutes of audio and video capture, with capability to set a top-end threshold.
  • All systems addressable over IP. Automated recovery during network and power outages ensures reliability.
Media Services

Media Services

  • Out-of-the-box integration with document cameras, room control systems, and other teaching tools simplifies deployment and maximizes existing investments.
  • Schedule an entire term’s captures—across campus, in multiple buildings, rooms, and formats—in minutes.
  • Reliable hands-off operation creates a new technology component with no staff monitoring needed.
  • Simple and cost-effective. One dedicated PC and a network connection makes any classroom ready for the EchoSystem.
Classroom Technologists

Classroom Technologists

  • Integrate seamlessly with Blackboard and other CMS (including iTunes U) for easy student access to an on-demand study aid.
  • Blends with podium PC and existing technologies to create new applications for learning; expands capabilities of classroom technology.
  • Capture full video-vga and audio concurrently, in real time, in multiple locations, with one scheduling at start of term.
  • Centralized management and automated publishing minimize staff time and costs.
Instructional Technologists

Instructional Technologists

  • Quickly develop online and hybrid courses to reach new students by repackaging everyday class content.
  • Add value to the institution. Create more content for online and distance learning programs virtually automatically.
  • Any student—including special needs—can access with only a computer and web connection. Lead students to greater comprehension, retention, and success.
  • No time spent training faculty. They simply step up and teach.