Echo360, higher education's first-choice for letting students relive the classroom experience on demand, recently announced the general availability of the next-generation EchoSystem platform for campus-wide lecture capture and podcasting. The release marks a milestone in the evolution of classroom technologies with the delivery of the EchoSystem capture appliance: the first and only non-PC based device designed, built and dedicated to the capture of classroom-based content.
Despite the educational benefits lecture capture affords the millennial generation and non-traditional student populations, campus-wide adoption of lecture capture has been limited by solutions priced and designed primarily for corporate applications. The delivery of the EchoSystem, along with new university- and department-wide site license pricing options, finally allows institutions to scale their lecture capture initiatives to every course on campus.
The EchoSystem platform was designed to address the primary technology hurdles to broad adoption. The EchoSystem server schedules, monitors, assembles and publishes lecture as rich media in a completely automated workflow. This centralized management approach creates a hub for lecture capture operations with a scalable, distributed computing architecture that streamlines the time and staff needed to manage a campus-wide lecture capture.
The platform includes the only unified hardware and software capture model on the market today with the delivery of the EchoSystem capture appliance. As a seamless addition to today's smart classrooms, the appliance drastically reduces the deployment time and total cost of ownership traditionally associated with general-purpose presentation recording solutions. The appliance, along with a software-only option deployable on existing classroom computers and faculty laptops, comprise a suite of flexible capture options for in-classroom and mobile workflows.
