Echo360(R) Expands Lecture Capture Beyond the Classroom

DULLES, VA--(Marketwire - May 27, 2009) - Echo360, higher education's first choice for allowing students to relive the classroom experience on demand, today announced the addition of personal capture software as part of the EchoSystem platform for campus-wide lecture capture. The announcement expands the definition of lecture capture to encompass any and all rich media instructional content created in the classroom, offices, homes, libraries -- everywhere inspiration strikes.

Learning and teaching take place in countless locations outside traditional venues, precipitating the need for a tool to complement Echo360 technology already installed in smart classrooms. With the click of a button, faculty can create learning modules and screencasts on Mac and Windows computers while connected or in an offline mode.

"Thanks to the extremely easy-to-use nature of the software and 'click to publish to the web' functionality, staff who have previously struggled with other packages are enthusiastically recording, editing and uploading a rapidly growing amount of material," said Martin Hill, iLecture systems manager at Curtin University of Technology. "At this stage we are looking at increasing the number of lectures, seminars and other resources we record to 30-40,000 recordings annually with a significant proportion of these captured by the EchoSystem personal capture software."

The combination of Echo360's existing classroom-based capture options and the new personal capture software enables colleges and universities to consolidate the creation, management and delivery of all rich media educational content within a single solution. This all-in-one approach -- and the flexibility and manageability that comes with it -- has become a fundamental requirement for institutions selecting the preferred campus-wide solution for their university.

"Lecture capture has already changed the delivery of education and Echo360 led this revolution with the industry's most popular campus-wide solution," said Echo360 CEO Fred Singer. "We've broken down the barriers to ubiquitous lecture capture with the only platform that scales operationally while simplifying the creation of rich media in the classroom and beyond."

About Echo360

Echo360 envisions an opportunity for every student to be freed from traditional barriers to learning with an on-demand education experience. Full-time, part-time, distance, continuing, and online all describe today's student living in a 24/7 world. On-demand media and education converge at Echo360, helping colleges and universities engage students on the students' terms with full and unbounded access to classroom-based content via multiplatform replay. Developed in partnership with the University of Western Australia, Echo360 means scalable and affordable lecture capture solutions that can provide institutions of all sizes with universal availability of lecture content. Learn more at www.echo360.com

Contact Information: Contact: Mary Young Director, Marketing, Echo360 m (703) 963-2467 o (703) 948-3043