Virtual learning isn’t going anywhere, which means that both instructors and learners who feel uncomfortable with it need to find a way to get on board. Whether you are an elementary school teacher trying to teach basic arithmetic or a large corporation looking to streamline compliance training, the Echosystem is the framework you need to more effectively teach online. The following five tips for effective virtual learning will help you make the most of what our platform has to offer:
The first of our tips for virtual learning is something that can’t always be done in a traditional classroom. EchoEngage allows for blended learning paths that allow both in-person and remote learners to enjoy the benefits of live class meetings with self-paced assignments they can complete whenever and wherever they like, allowing learners to take more ownership of the educational process. Students can be given personalized assignments, so a student who needs help with homeostasis can be assigned additional readings while a medical professional can be assigned recertification training. EchoAuthor allows you to gate certain material behind foundational concepts as well, allowing students to unlock more advanced material once they’ve demonstrated mastery of previous concepts.
In-person lectures seldom devolve into an instructor talking at a group of learners, so why would you record a virtual lecture in that format? Instructors can provide individualized feedback to every learner with the Echosystem so students feel like part of a community. EchoVideo has live streaming capabilities that make videos, discussions, and polling available to all learners in real-time too. You can also use EchoEngage’s polling tools to monitor real-time student progress and engagement, allowing you to adjust your lesson to your audience or assign remediation to learners who need it. Of course, you can solicit feedback from learners when a course is completed to make it more effective in the future.
Learners enjoy interacting with their peers in traditional classrooms and that doesn’t change online. EchoEngage includes a digital classroom with whiteboarding, message boards, and virtual breakout rooms so learners can collaborate as a class and in smaller groups. Gamification like live leaderboards can encourage remote learners to compete with their colleagues, and screen-sharing makes it easy to share one learner’s insights with the rest of the group. If your organization has shy learners, no problem. You can hide names when you share learner-generated content to preserve anonymity.
Lectures have their uses in a classroom setting, but one of our best virtual learning tips is to change the formula periodically. For example, you can use EchoVideo to capture and share video content to help visual learners deepen their understanding of the material. You can also use EchoVideo’s browser-based editing tool to sync video with classroom audio and create something more effective than either medium would be alone. EchoAuthor allows you to create courses with inline quizzes, flashcards, and more to facilitate multimodal learning as well.
Classroom teachers often have to wait for the term-end assessment to discover how students are faring, and breaking that mindset is one of our tips for effective virtual learning. Whether you’re using EchoEngage to measure how much of a video’s content was absorbed or EchoExam to administer full-fledged practice tests, the Echosystem makes it easy to understand how learners are doing at all times. EchoExam’s built-in Test Manager allows you to review results by learner or group, or you can export everything to your preferred LMS for added flexibility. EchoExam also ensures fair assessments through bi-modal questions and dynamically-generated content to create multiple versions of a single test.
Instructors, administrators, and learners everywhere can now experience the most comprehensive suite of learning engagement, assessment, and authoring solutions.
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Instructors, administrators, and learners everywhere can now experience the most comprehensive suite of learning engagement, assessment, and authoring solutions.
Let’s talk more to find the right solution for you.
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With over 14 different question types, you can match the assessment to the material at hand. Use traditional test question types such as true/false, multiple-choice, multiple response, numeric response, matching, completion, short answer and essay to review, re-teach and reinforce learning.
Ensuring that learners understand the information presented and how it can impact their success is key. Assess, track and analyze learner performance. Get results immediately and view valuable reports at the individual level, or for the class or group as a whole. Provide results in real-time, or at a later time as preferred.
With dynamic content, generate multiple iterations of exam questions to test the same concept. Use bimodal to toggle between multiple-choice and short answer question types, immediately changing the item difficulty level.
Echo360 is driven to enable inspired learning experiences for everyone, anywhere through the high quality of solutions, tools, and standards we set for our work and ourselves.
Ensuring our solutions and tools are effective in all kinds of learning environments.
Unleashing the end-to-end learning potential of video, from creation to administration.
Designing and delivering effective engagement tools that produce results.
Providing empirical evidence of engagement, progress, and opportunity areas through easy-to-use dashboards.
Integrating seamlessly with the most widely used Learning Management Systems in education and business.
Echo360 delivers an innovative model for engaged learning in the post-Covid age. We offer coherent and compelling learner-centered experiences regardless of place and time, so all learners have the opportunities to learn.
