With Camtasia now remembering the exact location (and state) of mouse cursor when you hit pause, the guess work is no longer required. This is so useful as jerky mouse movements can make your screencasts look less professional. You now also have the option to restore cursor position when you resume a screen recording after pausing for some time. Like Microsoft Office documents, Camtasia editor will auto-save your sessions every few minutes to help you recover work in the event of a crash. As you hover the mouse over the screen, Camtasia makes intelligent and dynamic suggestions by interpreting the nearest rectangular zone. The first step in creating any screencast video is about picking the desktop area that you want to record and the new Camtasia Recorder makes selecting the recording area extremely easy. If you are an old Camtasia Studio user, you will barely notice any difference in the interface of Camtasia Studio 5 when compared with the previous version but once you explore deeper, version 5 will certainly leave you feeling impressing and more productive. For readers who have not heard of Camtasia Studio before, it is “the” software for creating full-motion movies of all your desktop activity (also known as screencasting). Among various types of instructional technologies, screencasting is one of the popular and effective methods for delivering content within online learning environments (Mestre, 2012 Lloyd & Robertson, 2012).TechSmith will announce a new version of Camtasia Studio 5 screen recording software tomorrow. The first challenge that they face is digital content representation: namely, how to effectively present learning content to students in online settings. Since digital learning is relatively new, for some faculty, designing online learning materials is more likely to be difficult in comparison to developing in-class activities. When an instructor attempts to develop a hybrid course, there are two major elements they need to prepare: (1) in-class activities and (2) online learning materials. This instructional method allows students to learn at their own pace and have more opportunities to practice and apply newly gained knowledge in classes. The 'hybrid course,' sometimes used interchangeably with the term 'blended learning,' indicates a model of course design that combines in-class teaching with self-directed online learning (Allen, Seaman & Garrett, 2007).

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