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Echo360 Lunchtime Seminar New Zealand 2010

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Join us for an Echo360 Lunchtime Seminar kindly hosted by Auckland University of Technology on 8 September 2010.

Speaking at the seminar will be Janette Burke, Library Director of Central Services at Melbourne's Monash University. With Echo360's EchoSystem now deployed into over 85 lecture theatres, Monash are capturing approximately 850 lectures per week for students to access. Implementing a lecture capture service of this scale demands consideration of a wide range of issues, including pedagogy, the creation of privacy and copyright policy as well as infrastructure and resource planning and budgeting. As senior project manager of the EchoSystem implementation at Monash and manager of the service, Janette will be speaking on all these topics and more.

In addition, the seminar will include lunch, and offer a demonstration of EchoSystem's lecture capture for venue recording and its personal capture tool by a representative from Echo360.

Travel Bursaries

Echo360 are offering ten travel bursaries valued at NZ$200 for New Zealand residents who wish to travel to the event.

Event Registration

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Note: the information on this website is subject to change. Please check back regularly for updates.

9/8/2010

BbSummit Australasia 2010

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

http://www.bbworld.c...ent.asp?id=1560

BbSummit Australasia 2010
Sebel Cairns
Cairns, Queensland

Blackboard® is excited to invite our partners to participate in BbSummit™ Australasia 2010. This event will invite educators, course designers, system administrators and e-Learning managers from across Australasia and Asia to come together and share their knowledge and expertise in the field of online teaching and learning.

This event, replaces the traditional BbWorld® event, reflecting the predominant delegate demographic from Australia and New Zealand, although of course educators from across Asia are welcome to attend. There will be a continued strong focus on a client lead program sharing best practices in eLearning and networking.

The Blackboard® vision for e-Learning, products and services will also be featured as part of the program.
BbSummit™ Australasia 2010 is an opportunity for our sponsors to connect with executives in Australian and Asian higher education institutions that are already actively running e-Learning programs and looking to enhance their IT infrastructure, extend their learning environments through other technologies and manage their information.

9/13/2010
9/15/2010

Webinar: Stirring Up STEM at WPI

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Stirring Up STEM at WPI

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At Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), science, technology, engineering and mathematics shines – both in and out of the classroom. As one of the nation’s oldest engineering and technology universities, WPI looks to teach traditional subjects in untraditional ways. Keeping this initiative in mind, the Academic Technology Center (ATC) looked to Echo360® for a lecture capture solution to enhance student learning – without encroaching on faculty and staff time.

Join us for this interactive web seminar, as representatives from the ATC take you through their journey of jazzing up WPI’s STEM curriculum and classrooms with lecture capture. Find out how they lived and learned through deployments, training, and concerns, such as:

- Would students still come to class?
- Would faculty balk at using additional tools?
- Would ten outfitted classrooms be enough?
- Can we use it beyond the classroom? Register today! click here

When: Tuesday, September 21 at 1:00 PM EDT

Who should attend: Anyone thinking about using lecture capture and those who currently live and breathe lecture capture

Meet our Champions:

Mary Beth Harrity is the director of the Academic Technology Center (ATC) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA where she has worked in a variety of positions during the past 20 years. In addition to the Technology for Teaching & Learning Support Services, the ATC manages all electronic classrooms on campus and provides AV systems engineering, media production and technical event support services to the WPI community. Mary Beth holds a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and an M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts.

Kate Beverage is the Manager of Technology for Teaching & Learning Support Services with the Academic Technology Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Kate's primary responsibility is to lead the ATC's outreach efforts to the WPI community with regards to the use of instructional technologies in teaching and learning. She supports lecture capturing at WPI for use in campus-based and distance learning courses. Kate holds a B.A. in Instructional Technologies from the University of Connecticut and a M.S.Ed. in Educational Technology from Boise State University.

9/21/2010