Echo360 Announces 2009 Community Conference

DULLES, VA--(Marketwire - March 27, 2009) - This summer Virginia's hunt country will be center stage for a discussion about lecture capture -- the educational technology that is sweeping through academia. Echo360 announced today that it will host its clients and industry experts at Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Virginia for a global users' conference, June 4-5, 2009.

Echo360 is leading education's Rewind Revolution to free the lecture from the lecture hall, enabling students to achieve higher levels of engagement and retention by reliving the classroom experience on demand. With annual conferences in United Kingdom and Australia, this event builds on an already active Echo360 lecture capture community. The two-day conference agenda includes best practices, networking and education shared by leading academics and technology professionals involved in lecture capture at their institution.

Open to all colleges, universities and K12 districts using Echo360 products, this year's economic climate makes it particularly relevant for institutions to participate in the conversation surrounding the use of technology in education. While the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provides for roughly $100 billion in support of education, university budget cuts are a reality for the foreseeable future. Expanding distance education initiatives and workforce retraining programs with content created using Echo360 buffers the impact of cost-cutting on the quality of education and services offered to students.

"Identifying strategies to expand online offerings without increasing costs is paramount to all of our customers this year," said Mark Jones, President of Echo360. "The Echo360 Community Conference is the perfect venue for customers to exchange success stories for deploying, using and growing lecture capture across their campuses."

Those interested in attending the conference or becoming a speaker can find more information at www.echo360.com/uc09.

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 the newly-formed 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.

Contact Information: Contact: Mary Young Director, Marketing Echo360 (703) 963-2467