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Stressed out about prepping for a video conference? Don't worry. Follow these helpful tips for successful remote collaboration, and you'll be just fine.

Whether you're preparing for your first lesson or your 10,000th, do yourself a favor and use your education technology to better manage the classroom.

Pair an AVer visualizer with the popular educational video-sharing platform Flipgrid, and let the educational magic begin.

What do the college basketball playoffs in March have in common with your video conferencing technology? More than you might think!

The technological revolution is rapidly transforming the way people learn, with new education innovations cropping up at every tech exhibit and quickly flooding classrooms all over the world. But this always-dependable staple of the traditional classroom refuses to be left behind.

The importance of the UX concept of usefulness is obvious in video conferencing software and cloud platforms, but it's also an essential aspect of peripheral audiovisual hardware.

Education technology is truly a multipurpose tool that teachers can use to cultivate students of all learning styles. In this series, we’ve already plumbed the depths of visual, verbal, aural, logical, physical, and social learners, and one style remains: solitary learners.

Chinese New Year is a perfect time to assess your business and get ready for a productive year. Here’s a look at some of the customs individuals and organizations often take part in during CNY to symbolize good fortune, and a couple of ideas for how you can ensure your company doesn’t depend on good luck alone to have a successful 2020.

Social learners need to work with others when they study, and education technology solutions are ideal for facilitating such group interactions.

When every piece of technology needed for collaboration is combined into one powerful device, you win. Check out these three reasons an AIO touch display should be your next investment.

From visual and verbal to aural and logical learners, we’ve finally made our way to the fifth topic in our series on learning styles and EduTech. Buckle up; it’s time to get kinetic.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to remotely manage all the devices in your network, ensuring they’re always ready to go at a moment’s notice? Well, if you use AVer solutions, you’re in luck.

The state of work and learning today has people scattered far and wide during the holiday season. Thankfully, technology has widespread humanity more closely connected than ever before.

The next logical step in our study of learning styles and technology is to examine methods for teaching logical learners with EduTech.

Aural learners are all ears, so teachers must ensure that they use their education technology accordingly. Read on to learn just how easy that is to do.

We left you on the edge of your seat with last week's post, but the wait is finally over! Read on to discover the final three remote working numbers you must wrap your head around!

We’ve all seen the clickbait scam ads about barely working from home and earning more in a week than most people earn in a month. These too-good-to-be-true tricks may have made you wary about the idea of telecommuting; however, the reality is that remote work is a legitimate and rapidly growing phenomenon.

Education technology provides teachers with all the tools they need to ensure that verbal learners in their classrooms are fully engaged and interacting with lesson content.

If you’re interested in increasing productivity in the office, you may want to think about transforming your space into an agile workplace for activity-based working. This popular office design trend creates a working environment that caters to all types of personalities, synthesizing diverse working styles into one efficient business unit.

Education technology makes it fairly easy for modern teachers to personalize their lesson plans for multiple types of learners. Over the next several weeks, we’ll take a look at each learning style and how to accommodate them with EduTech solutions. Let’s get started by studying visual learners.

For the majority of educational organizations, it’s not feasible to upgrade classroom devices every time a new model hits the market. However, administrators with limited resources can still ensure their students are not left behind by transforming traditional classroom equipment into state-of-the art engagement tools with a single integration module known as a collaboration box.

You don’t have to be a genius to make your meetings smarter. Simply upgrading your conferencing space technology with a camera that includes the latest smart functions is all it takes to position your collaborations at the cutting edge of intelligence. A conferencing camera embedded with smart tech can quickly enhance meeting efficiency and develop invaluable camaraderie between coworkers.

Livestreaming is proven to be one of the best ways to reach a modern audience, and here at AVer, we’ve got everything you need to get started. Read on to discover why adding this capability to your marketing mechanism is a great idea.

There are many benefits to adding an auto tracking solution to your classroom. We compiled the three best reasons to immediately start shopping for cameras embedded with this technology.

We're back with four more interesting ideas for using your visualizer to amaze and engage students. Use these suggestions to create your own list of surprising ways to apply your document camera to interactive education.

While regular meetings are critical to keeping everyone in an organization on the same page, they can often do more harm than good when not run properly. There are many causes for ineffective, time-wasting meetings, and it’s almost a guarantee that your company is guilty of at least a few of them.

The first day of school is the best time to start putting your education technology to good use. From charging tablets and laptops before class starts to having fun in the last few minutes of class, technological innovation will accompany you every step of the way.

If you’ve ever used a visualizer, you understand how useful it is for projecting documents to share with a class. However, if that’s all you’re using it for, you’re cheating yourself. Despite its name, a document camera is for so much more than documents.

If your organization has not yet implemented video conferencing capability, sooner rather than later. There are many excellent reasons for expanding your audio-only meeting room to include live imaging, and we've compiled four of the most convincing ones.

Make sure everyone in your collaborations is clearly heard by crafting a meeting space with optimal audio conditions.

The way we work, learn and play are all drafting behind technology as it races along the autobahn of progress at breakneck speed. Education is especially affected by such advancement, as teachers are tasked with preparing students for a world that will likely run on AI algorithms. Fortunately, companies like AVer are stepping up to provide an ever expanding array of STEAM resources.

Intentionally configuring your meeting-space lighting is essential regardless of whether you're setting up for video conferencing or face-to-face brainstorming.

Thanks to tech like AR, the future of education is bursting with mind-blowing possibilities for classroom engagement.

As with the design of rooms there are numerous different types of technology that you can use in a conferencing room. Most commonly in today’s meeting rooms you will normally find a combination of the following: a projector, a monitor or interactive flat panel, a computer, a telephone or a video conferencing system. For the sake of this article we will focus on your video conferencing system (because here at AVer that’s what we do).

When many people think of Taipei’s COMPUTEX exhibition, the first images that come to mind are business and entertainment applications. However, many products at the 2019 show actually targeted educational institutions, with offerings ranging from VR/AR devices to extremely high-zoom digital microscopes.

Much of the technology presented at COMPUTEX 2019 will directly impact the way companies run remote business meetings in the future.

Whether in the classroom or in the boardroom eLearning is changing how people are educated. The phenomenon of eLearning is taking the world by storm. We now have access to a wealth of information that previous generations could hardly fathom.

Don't let technical issues stand in the way of clear communication in your video conferencing collaborations.

Despite the thrilling possibilities presented by remote classroom solutions, many institutions are still relegating their brightest minds to brick-and-mortar confines. If your organization is in such a position, it may be time to think about constructing a space that is more conducive to e-learning strategies.

As we discussed last month, your meeting rooms are going to come in a lot of different shapes and sizes. Therefore, what you put in them plays a big part in how successful they are. A great way to emphasize your meeting rooms is by aligning your design with that of your business's brand.

Every day in the U.S. 11 million meetings are taking place. As employees we normally average about 5 hours a week in meetings and 4 hours just preparing for them. Whether you like them or not meetings play an important role in the daily operations of organizations and the overall success of a company.

This year’s exhibition held a close place in the hearts of us here at AVer as we participated in the Smart Education Expo where our products joined the likes of other industry leaders to explore the future of education and take the steps to build a new type of classroom for young learners everywhere. We wanted to give our thoughts on what we saw and show just how much the classroom of the future is changing.

Telecommuting is a great business strategy for managing your workforce. There are many benefits to employees that come with taking advantage of a telecommuting program, but what about the benefits for employees? Why should businesses be looking at implementing this avant-garde business arrangement?

Interactive visualizers have been a boon in the classroom when it comes to presenting learning material to students. Equipped with high end zooms and up to 4K resolutions, interactive visualizers provide teachers and students with an all new way to display classroom experiments or work. Most importantly, however, is their ability to help increase engagement with activities in the classroom.

PTZ cameras are a very useful tool for helping capture events content. These versatile and highly flexible camera systems provide content recording with an ingenious way to make the most out of an event. Here are some helpful applications for when to use a PTZ camera that you might not be thinking about that could boost your content creation effectiveness, save you money, or just produce some amazing content.

Using USB video conferencing equipment to connect teams is becoming a much more commonplace activity in businesses all across the world. In fact, the increase in the work-from-home workforce has grown exponentially and according to Global Workplace Analytics at least half of the US workforce holds jobs that are compatible with some form of telecommuting. Most employees (80% to 90%)...

Implementing flipped learning curriculums into a class can be a daunting project for any school or teacher to undertake. Effectively utilizing the benefits of flipped classrooms requires not only the training and technological know-how, but the right tools. Charging and syncing solutions are a necessary part of the flipped classroom and are a core tool in the successful implementation of this advanced teaching strategy.

Camera technologies play an integral role in allowing us to communicate and share information across fast distances. It is also important when it comes to reaching potential audiences. In order for video communication or activities like streaming, broadcasting, or recording to be successful and have an impact on your audiences the quality and functions of your video device plays a big role.

When we envision a classroom we always tend to think of the traditional layout: rows of desks, a black or whiteboard, an old back lit projector, pencils and paper, and books stacked on shelves, but as the great Bob Dylan once sang, “the times they are a’changing”. The classrooms of today have become more advanced and are taking advantage of the fast moving technological innovation that we have seen come to pass over the past several decades.

AVer HQ is located in New Taipei City, Taiwan, and is where I currently show up for work every weekday. But I am not from Taiwan, I’m an expat. I recently decided that I would take time to travel back to my home town and visit my family and friends, I didn’t want to be just dropping in for a day before heading back to the airport. How could we solve this problem?

Using applications on Smart Devices in the classroom are becoming a much more common sight in today’s classroom. It can even be argued that they are playing a much more prominent role in the educating young learners and will surely become more important as future generations of students move towards more technology in the classroom.

Did you know that information is transmitted to your brain 60,000 times faster by visuals than by words? Video learning has been the talk of the town for over half a decade.

A lot of people ask us what is better a Codec style room-based conferencing system or a plug-and-play USB conferencing system when they are looking to purchase or upgrade their communications networks. The answer we normally give them is “well it depends on what your needs are, what are your needs?” Today, we are going to be looking at a couple of the benefits associated with room-based models of Codec Conferencing Systems.

Here’s a list of the top 7 needed EdTech solutions that you will find in every Smart Classroom.

We sat down with AVer Camera Business Division's Product Manager Longer Hung to discuss the latest in camera and object tracking technologies.

Ever since the initial steps to develop a video telephone in the late 1920s by AT&T Company Bell Labs and John Logie Baird, unified communications (UC) has been at the forefront of communication technology advancement; culminating in the release of the first real video phone in 1970 with AT&Ts Picturephone service.

At AVer we have a saying that the classroom is always changing. From things like Interactive Flat Panels, Classroom Video Conferencing Systems, and remote and tablet learning, students today spend more time around technology than ever, all while having access to an entire world of information at their fingertips thanks to the internet.

To many of people ‘Big Data’ remains a dense, giant reservoir of random data points and numbers, but these seemingly random pieces of information are being combed over and extracted by heavy loaded super computers and some of the brightest minds of a generation (not to mention whatever algorithms Google has built).

If you have ever taken a basic economics course then you have probably heard of the fundamental law of supply and demand. Education systems around the world are learning this law first hand and are facing some very serious complications because of it.

Advances in facial recognition technologies have changed how we create content in both education and business. Taking advantage of this new technology we have seen it integrated into cameras for a variety of different purposes from big data to unlocking your cell phone. One of the most interesting and perhaps useful integrations of this technology in the field of content creation is the auto tracking camera.

There was a time that teachers would be telling students to put away their smart device and pay attention to class. Well times sure have changed. Now it is the teachers and schools who are encouraging students to have their devices charged and ready for class time. A global boom in smart device learning has it the teaching world by storm. Many schools are seeking to optimize their curriculums and maximize the benefits that have come with the advances in edtech.

Huddle Rooms have blown up the way employees collaborate in businesses across the globe. These 3 to 4 person meeting rooms have provided businesses with the innovative ideas that they crave and are all the rage with young employees joining the workforce.

The hidden costs of employee turnover can “run as high as 150 percent of an annual employee’s salary”. It is also one of the most challenging events that an enterprise can face in today’s very competitive business landscape. Holding on to talent, especially top talent, is vital for the success of a company; having a revolving employee door can mean certain unrecoverable doom for most. For this reason employee retention should be an important focal point for managers and HR.

How I wish I knew then what I know now. Learning about new places can be very exciting, but learning about different cultures can bring major benefits to young learners as they mature and can make serious differences in their future lives.

To a lesser or greater extent we have all been there; sitting in a long form conference room surrounded by team members and some management types, a PowerPoint presentation on the screen and a remote co-worker calling in from across the globe.

Did you know that we share 99.9% of our DNA with the person sitting next to us? We share a lot of things in common with numerous different things in this world, but have you ever wondered why we feel the need to share information with each other? Although it may seem like a simple question to answer, the truth is it is a lot more interesting than you might think. Let’s take a look at some of the reasons why we are compelled to share information and how that has led to our success.

Are you wondering how IT has changed the way we learn? Advancement in information technology (IT) has made distance and remote learning an increasingly more viable option for educators through better video communication, lowered bandwidth usage and cost options, online engagement features, and unique information sharing applications. In recent years we have seen an explosion in the use of IT in education, which has allowed for many new and exciting teaching techniques to spring to life.

Huddle rooms are all the rage right now. Millennials love these small 3 to 4 person meeting rooms and they have provided businesses with the innovative ideas that they crave. But are you really making the most out of your huddle room conferencing equipment? Here are 3 ways you can improve your huddle room by using a video soundbar.