Whether you’re teaching at the college or K12 level, or leading government or corporate training, interactive teaching tools are a must for today’s online, hybrid, and blended classrooms. Through interactive learning, students improve their performance and develop a greater level of autonomy. Interactive learning also improves students’ retention of information as it promotes self-directed learning.

To encourage learning engagement, the expanded suite of Echo360 products includes EchoExam, a content-rich test generator that can adjust the difficulty of a question on the fly; Point Solutions, polling that keeps your audience engaged no matter where they are; EchoPoll, a learning engagement platform with an intuitive interface; and the Echo360 video learning solutions, including our state-of-the-art video management platform that helps you provide compelling video that’s accessible to all.

What Are the Benefits of Interactive Teaching and Learning?

There’s no shortage of benefits to be attained through interactive learning. We’ll discuss three of the most important ones here.

  1. Improved Classroom Collaboration
    Point Solutions allows for more interactive learning through live polling and competitions. Polling makes students active participants in the class no matter where they are, whether your students are connecting in-person or via web, desktop, or mobile app. You’ll receive real-time responses that let you evaluate your students’ knowledge as you go, allowing you to make immediate adjustments to your presentation. Interactive sessions enhanced by Point Solutions can help you truly connect with your audience.
  2. Critical Thinking Skills
    Interactive learning puts students in the position to develop their own opinions rather than simply receiving and regurgitating the instructor’s words. This encourages them to hone their critical thinking and information synthesis capabilities. Through free association, student teaching, and idea generation, students learn to synthesize information, think critically, and gain an understanding of concepts that they can then articulate in their own words.
  3. Greater Engagement
    Students in an interactive classroom are continually doing activities or preparing to do activities with the information they are learning. This keeps them more interested and engaged, makes it impossible for them to just sit and zone out, and helps them learn and integrate the information better. It also makes class more fun.

Interactive Online Teaching Tools

EchoPoll is perfect for teaching interactively online or in hybrid situations. Instructors can easily set up classes intuitively. You go step-by-step through the course creator to create content, import multimedia presentations, embed video from any URL, and more. It is then easy to add students to your class. You just drag and drop their names from a master list into your class.

When you present your class live online, Echo360 makes it simple. There is a live video feed that allows you to interact with your students just as if they were there in the room with you. Creating videos is much easier than you might expect, too. If students need to come back to review segments of the lecture, Echo360 transcribes and indexes videos, making it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for.

One of the most powerful interactive learning tools in a EchoPoll classroom is the breakout rooms. Instructors can create virtual breakout rooms, assign a small number of students to each room, and give them an activity to complete in their small group. As each group works together, the instructor can pop in and out of the breakout rooms to answer any questions students might have and just to see how they are progressing. When the time is up, the instructor alerts the groups, and students return to the full classroom, where they can share their creation, their findings, or their ideas.

Finally, EchoExam helps you create tests that are aligned with today’s standard and Common Core curriculum. This test generator allows you to pull questions from popular publishers, Common Core standards, or your own content. It’s a flexible, dynamic solution to your testing troubles. EchoExam also gives you detailed metrics that can help you evaluate student performance so you know where your students may be struggling and where they shine.

How Can I Make Use of Interactive Teaching Tools?

To learn more about these features and see them in action, book a demo today and see how Echo360’s entire suite of solutions including EchoPoll, Point Solutions, EchoExam can help your online and hybrid classrooms become more interactive.

From campus video management, lecture capture, online and hybrid learning, and more, contact us to discover how Echo360 can help transform the teaching and learning experience at your institution.

 

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