eLearning

Lecture Capture Pilot Scheme

Echo 360 is a lecture capture software system which is available on a pilot basis in DIT from 1st March 2012. The trial will be available on podium PCs and for download to your laptop from the LTTC and local technicians.

For this pilot two lecture theatres have been equipped with Echo360. These can be used to record your live lecture. Alternatively you can record directly to your laptop from any location. Echo360 captures the lecture by recording audio, screen activity and video. These elements are then synchronised and posted to a specified course in webcourses.dit.ie as a multimedia presentation. Students can then review the presentation when it is streamed from a media server which ensures fast playback whether they are on or off-campus.

Benefits of Lecture Capture

• Students can access their lectures online
• Reduced need for note taking
• Students can replay and navigate within lectures for revision and increased comprehension
• Lecture capture can help to build an archive of previous lectures within a unit
• Blended approaches can use lecture capture to save contact time by delivering parts of the unit material online
• Captured lectures can be re-used by moving or copying them amongst Blackboard courses.
• Lectures are also automatically delivered for podcast (mp3) and video(m4v) for playback on mobile devices.

Lecture capture locations

KOS Theatre, Cathal Brugha St
Lecture Theatre 4079, Aungier Street.

For more information or to download the Echo360 software:

• Aungier Street  Contact: Aidan Walsh  Tel ext. 7066
• Bolton Street: Contact: Ken Lacey Tel ext. 7867
• Cathal Brugha Street: Contact: Tom Farrell Tel ext. 4304
• Kevin Street: Contact: Ken Lacey Tel ext. 7867
• Mount Street: Contact: Helen Lamb Tel ext. 7876
• Mountjoy Square: Contact: Phil Adams Tel ext 4272

For all other locations contact lttc@dit.ie 

More information available on the Echo360 website