Lecture Capture
UT Arlington has endeavored to provide the most advanced instructional technology tools available. One of our most successful programs has been the implementation of the Echo360 Active Learning Platform. Video capture technology is used by over 400 faculty in a variety of ways to enhance student learning, including live and pre-recorded lectures that can be distributed via Blackboard or social media for use by students as a study guide or as part of a flipped classroom. During the 2017 spring semester these instructional recordings were accessed over 250,000 times by students. Echo360 captures 2 video sources as well as an audio feed for a complete rendering of the classroom experience.
Most rooms are equipped with a fixed camera and a microphone mounted to the ceiling. The Echo360 device is mounted in an out of the way area with the feeds from the camera, microphone, and the projector. The advantage to this setup is instructors are not required to power up, operate, or have any involvement with the recording. They come to class, teach as normal, and the presentation is sent to them via e-mail.
Over seventy classrooms are currently equipped with either SD or HD video capture technology, including:
- Architecture (ARCH): 204
- College Hall (CH): 101, 106
- College of Business (B): 142, 147, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 243, 252, 254, 256, 339, 349
- Chemistry Research Building (CRB): 114
- Engineering Laboratory Building (ELAB): 256
- Engineering Research Building (ERB): 129, 130, 131
- General Academic Classroom Building (GACB): 103, 105
- Geoscience (GS): 100, 104, 109
- Life Sciences (LS): 118, 119, 122, 124
- Nedderman Hall (NH): 100, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 202, 203, 229
- Pickard Hall (PKH): 104, 110, 204, 212, 223, 227, 321
- Preston Hall (PH): 104
- Science Hall (SH): 100, 101, 103
- Science & Engineering Innovation & Research (SEIR): 194,198, 294, 298
- University Hall (UH): 108, 110, 115, 121
- Wolff Hall (WH): 208, 210, 221, 308, 311, 402, 404
- Fort Worth Center (UTASF): 111, 112, 113, 114, 119, 120, 121, 122
A growing number of rooms are being outfitted with desktop-only recording software. The images from the desktop, video from an installed web camera, and audio are recorded via the software. Currently installed rooms are:
- Architecture (ARCH): 103E, 319, 324
- Preston Hall (PH): 206
- Science Hall (SH): 121, 125
- University Hall (UH): 116
For more information contact:
Don Lane, Manager of Technical Operations
e-mail dklane@uta.edu or phone 817-272-3296
