Matt Champagne, COO and AJ Gregory, Founder & CTO

Flipped Learning, a concept where a student consumes video outside the classroom and then discusses the subject during class, is now becoming mainstream. Realizing its importance, educators are expanding the use of video for situational training such as mock interviewing, video collaboration, and more. Video is becoming so pervasive in learning scenarios that it now needs to be viewed as a utility for learning and communication, just like presentation tools such as PowerPoint or Google Slides. However, to make video a true utility for educators and students requires solutions that have minimal investment, being simple to acquire and get started. This is where Screencast-O-Matic makes an impact. The company provides instructors, students, and staff with intuitive, easy-to-use, and cost-effective solutions for creating, managing, and sharing videos.

AJ Gregory, Founder and CTO of Screencast-O-Matic mentions that the emerging trend of a two-way communication model between teachers and students is shunning the long-established ‘instructor-led’ pedagogy, and strengthening the need for knowledge-sharing toolsets. Screencast-O-Matic addresses these requirements with its flagship platform that fulfills the video learning needs with tools for video creation and editing, robust content management, and video sharing.

If video is to be ubiquitous in learning, video tools need to be integrated into the greater learning toolset and also provide choice to the teacher and student. One example of this is Screencast-O-Matic’s implementation of IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), a standard that prescribes a way to easily connect learning applications and tools with platforms like learning management systems (LMS). Another example is convenient publishing options to popular cloud services such as YouTube and Dropbox or access to an API for universities and school districts to integrate with their private cloud storage.