All teachers want to help students achieve the best learning outcomes they can, and that means making full use of technology for remote learners. Naturally, all educational tools are not equal for this purpose. You’ll get the best student learning outcomes with tools designed to engage students in the educational process beyond the bare minimum required by assessments.
Echo360 is all about empowering inspired learning, making our Echosystem a great choice for all teachers who want to see students succeed. Please continue reading to learn more about how our inspired learning technology can help students develop the knowledge and skills they’ll need in the future.
Student learning outcomes can be defined as a statement detailing what knowledge, skills, and/or values students should’ve acquired by the end of a unit of instruction. They are generally student-centric and utilize verbs other than “know” and “understand” to help both teachers and students understand what is expected of them. For example, science teachers might focus on students “developing critical thinking skills within the context of biology” while English teachers help students “state a clear thesis and support it with relevant evidence.”
Student learning outcomes are not synonymous with grades, though ideally, assessments should focus on the outlined skills.
The key to helping learners achieve student learning outcomes is to focus on skills and applications of academic knowledge rather than rote memorization, and the Echosystem excels at that. For example, EchoEngage has a virtual classroom with breakout rooms where small groups of students can collaborate and challenge each other’s viewpoints. Teachers can pop in and out of each group to keep students on task, but keeping interactions peer-to-peer forces students to think for themselves instead of looking to the instructor for the “correct” response.
Similarly, EchoVideo uses screen sharing so the instructor can easily share the results of class-wide polls or discussion questions with the rest of the group whether the class is in-person, remote, or a combination of the two. Instructors can hide student names to preserve anonymity and encourage introverted students to participate, but they’ll still know who said what if intervention is necessary. Again, students are challenged to come up with their own ideas instead of turning to someone else.
The adage “practice makes perfect” applies to student learning outcomes, and EchoExam makes it easy for teachers to provide all of the practice students might need. For instance, dynamic content changes questions as instructors manipulate them to generate items in minutes. If a math class is learning how to interpret data, EchoExam will automatically recalculate answer choices as the underlying data is altered to save valuable instructor time. There are also bi-modal questions that can be toggled between multiple-choice and short-response formats in seconds, allowing instructors to adjust their difficulty at will.
Finally, EchoAuthor makes it easy to design engaging course content around desired student learning outcomes. You can begin each unit with a quick rundown of what students should be trying to achieve to help them understand what’s required of them. Content is also accessible on most mobile devices, allowing students to decide where they want to learn and feel like stakeholders in the educational process. Best of all, student progress is easy to track so you can commend achievements and offer support where necessary.
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.
