Echo360 (Apreso Anystream)

Formerly Apreso Anystream, back in August of 2007, the company acquired a software called Lectopia from the University of Western Australia. In October, Apreso changed their name to Echo360. The lecture capture technology offered by Echo360 includes software only (for laptops), support for dedicated classroom PC’s, and a dedicated hardware appliance.

The unique aspect of Echo360 is that it is completely hands-off if desired. That is, the system can be linked to a campus classroom scheduling program to automatically start and stop the recording based on the instructors’ schedule. That is, the instructor doesn’t have to do anything to have their class recorded. The system starts and stops recording automatically.

Echo360 can publish to iTunes U and a wide array of streaming playback formats. A Blackboard Building Block is also available to provide a seamless and automated way for students to access course recordings.

Echo360 Website

Panopto CourseCast

Panopto is a relatively new player in the Enterprise lecture capture market.  Through Panopto’s “Socrates Project”,  Panopto’s lecture capture technology is offered for free to accredited academic institutions.

CourseCast is the name of the lecture capture product.  The soon to be released version 2.0 will be able to not only allow faculty to capture, edit, index, archive and stream video and audio over the Internet, but also it will support the delivery of the capture as a podcast.

Panopto Web Site

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Mediasite from Sonicfoundry

Medasite is a course capture, podcasting solution that even features live broadcasting. Viewers can tune in live to your presentations or watch the recording at a later date.    Mediate site is a hardware based solution. It connects to your computer and records everything on the screen via the  VGA port. It captures audio from the computer, and video from a camera.  Read more

Tegrity Campus

Tegrity Campus is an enterprise level course capture and podcasting system.  It is a very robust server based system for both Mac and PC clients.  Users will need a client installed on their machine.  Lectures are captured locally and uploaded to the Tegrity server upon completion and cataloged.  Read more