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ICYMI: Echo360 User Community Conference Day Two Focuses on How Increasing Engagement Leads to Greater Student Success

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Accessibility
Classroom Engagement
CMS
Continuing Education
Distance Learning
Early Warning & Intervention
Events
Flipped Classroom
Hybrid Teaching
Lecture Capture
Online Learning
Product Features
Screencasting & Personal Capture
Student Response & Polling
Video Learning
Webcasting & Live Streaming

Accessibility
Classroom Engagement
CMS
Continuing Education
Distance Learning
Early Warning & Intervention
Events
Flipped Classroom
Hybrid Teaching
Lecture Capture
Online Learning
Product Features
Screencasting & Personal Capture
Student Response & Polling
Video Learning
Webcasting & Live Streaming

ICYMI: Echo360 User Community Conference Day One Workshop Focuses on How to Deliver Engaging Online and Hybrid Learning Experiences

Much More Than Lecture Capture: Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees Learn How Echo360 Provides the Tools They Need to Deliver Synchronous/Asynchronous Online and Hybrid Learning Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This article is the first in a series of three articles recapping the key presentations from each day. We’ve also included links…

Echo360 Enhances Student Success Through Hybrid Teaching at University of Kentucky

As universities continue to manage against the continuing backdrop of COVID-19, hybrid models are giving both students and instructors the flexibility and choice around how they maintain learning and teaching. Holly Hapke, Senior Marketing Lecturer at the University of Kentucky has developed a 3-in-1 hybrid teaching model; an amalgamation of in-person, live stream and asynchronous…

How One Instructor Uses Echo360 to Engage and Assess Students

Click here to see the feedback video. I began using Echo360 several years ago as a teaching tool in my online courses. Initially, I used Echo360 to record short videos for my classes to help create a sense of social presence, provide personalized tutorials, and connect course concepts from one week to the next. At…

Echo360 Academic Champion Uncovers the Importance of Video to Student Vets at The University of Edinburgh

Dr. Jill McKay had a natural affinity with animals from a young age. She has always been surrounded by a variety of different creatures, which influenced her career choices and brought her to her current role as senior lecturer of veterinary science education at The University of Edinburgh. Having contributed to many research papers on…

As Students Return to Campus, Video Learning Helps Mercer University Ensure Academic Continuity and Manage Future Contingencies

University Expands Echo360 Licenses Campus-Wide to All 12 Colleges and Schools While students at Mercer University were completing the spring 2020 academic term remotely using Zoom, plans were already underway to have them return to campus for classroom instruction. To help ensure academic continuity when students returned, Mercer decided to expand the use of Echo360….

As the Australian Catholic University’s Use of Video Evolves, Echo360 is With Them Every Step of the Way

When I started working on the iLecture project at The University of Western Australia in 2003, the team had developed a world-leading lecture recording solution that had been garnering significant attention. Within a few years, 30% of Australian universities had implemented iLecture and, by 2015, that number had grown to over 70%. Across Australia and…

Webinar Recap: Beyond COVID – Providing Student Choice in Course Delivery with Hybrid Teaching

The “Choice Model” Addresses Student Expectations for More Hybrid and Online Learning Options Post-Pandemic Student experiences during the pandemic have likely reset their expectations for how teaching should be delivered. Colleges and universities plan to fully open campuses and resume classroom instruction this fall, but many students have said they want more choices for how…

Echo360’s Interactive Media Turns Passive Video into Active Learning

“What we know about cognitive science is that students learn when they do something with information. There’s nothing more passive than just sitting and watching a video. We need to ask our students to do something with information if we truly want them to learn it and retain it and to process it” —Meret Burke,…

Inside Higher Ed Webinar Recap. Returning to the Classroom: Is Hybrid Teaching Here to Stay?

Campus Leaders Share Insights on the Technology and Teaching Practices Used to Successfully Deliver Emergency Remote Learning and How Hybrid Learning Helped Students Return to Campus A recent webinar hosted by Inside Higher Ed focused on the topic of hybrid learning and featured two Echo360 customers. A panel of campus leaders from Saginaw Valley State…

Echo360 Helps Harding University Deliver Emergency Remote Learning and then Transition to Back to the Classroom

Flexibility and Ease-of-Use of Video Platform During Emergency Remote Learning Leads to Installation of Echo360 in 170+ Learning Spaces as Students Return to Campus Like many institutions around the world, the videoconferencing platform Zoom was one of the tools the faculty and staff at Harding University used to deliver synchronous remote learning when they closed…

What’s NEXT for Higher Education?

New York Times Best Selling Author, Jeff Selingo, Interviews Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360 on the Future of Higher Education After the Pandemic Following his publication of the report, The Hybrid Campus, Jeff Selingo hosted Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360, on his streaming program, NEXT on LinkedIn Live. During the program, they discuss lessons learned…

Lessons Learned During Emergency Remote Learning Enhance Classroom Instruction when Students Return to Campus

Echo360 Live-Streaming and Student Response Tools Help University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine Keep Students Engaged Even When They are Dispersed and Socially Distanced Students had already left for Spring break when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine to shut down its campus. College administrators, staff, and faculty…

UCL Lecturer Parama Chaudhury Reveals 5 Elements of Educating During Lockdown That Will Endure in Her Teaching Post-COVID

Professor Parama Chaudhury was destined to teach. Both her parents and brother are professors and after doing some teaching while studying for her PhD, she loved it and has never looked back. Now Professor (Teaching) and Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE) at University College London, Parama has used Echo360 for…

Brock University Professor Makes Online Learning Interactive, Engaging, and Personal

This is the second article in a two-part series outlining how Brock University uses Echo360 for online learning and video content management. Formative Assessment Activities Keep Students Participating and Engaged While Learning Online Keeping students focused in large-enrollment lecture classes is challenging during normal times when classes are presented face-to-face. Keeping them engaged during online…

Brock University Expands Online Learning to 19K Users

Echo360 Helps University Deliver Online Teaching and Learning Along with Robust Video Content Management This is the first article in a two-part series outlining how Brock University uses Echo360 for online learning and video content management. In 2019, Brock University selected Echo360 as its video content management system. The University selected Echo360 because it could…