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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

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…

“Chasing Interesting, Disruptive Movements” – Raise the Line Podcast Features Echo360 CEO Fred Singer

Echo360 CEO Fred Singer was the featured guest on a recent episode of the Raise the Line podcast series, sponsored by Osmosis.org, a leading health education learning platform. In a wide-ranging interview with Osmosis co-founder, Shiv Gaglani, Singer talked about what makes Echo360 different, describing it as a “learning company” not just an education technology…

Video Technology Helps Schreiner University Reimagine Classroom Instruction

Echo360 Video Platform Plays Essential Role as Students Return to Campus for Focused 8-Week Terms Schreiner University is a private Presbyterian university with an enrollment of about 1,300 students located in Kerrville, Texas. The university describes itself as a “place of opportunity” offering a personalized, integrated, and holistic educational experience. Small classes, face-to-face instruction, and…

Webinar Recap: Mobilizing Remote Learning in Traditional Teaching

Echo360 Helps University of Toledo Expand Online and Hybrid Learning In the third and final webinar of our hybrid and online learning series in 2020, a panel of experts from the University of Toledo shared their experiences on how the university is using Echo360 and other technology to expand online and hybrid learning in response…

Using Embedded Polling to Assess Student Knowledge and Skills in Online and Hybrid Courses

Formative Assessments Create Opportunities to Engage Students and Assess Course-Related Knowledge and Skills As universities move more to teaching online, how can instructors create greater opportunities for student engagement? What is the role of formative assessment in online learning and how can instructors discover what, how much, and how well their students are learning? These…

How One University is Changing Student Assessments

The world is more connected than ever. While some lecturers are still debating allowing mobile technology in classes, a team of lecturers from The University of Tasmania have been using the affordances of mobile technology to help them improve communication of online video and assessment. Using Mobile Technology in Music and Art Education Dr Bill…

Instructor Mixes Technology with a Healthy Serving of Student Interaction to Create an Engaging Online Learning Experience

Even though Classes are Online, Artful Teaching Remains at the Heart of Student Learning The first of three Echo360 webinars focusing on hybrid and online teaching kicked off with a presentation by Dr. Louise Robson, a senior university teacher and Otto Hutter teaching prize winner at the University of Sheffield. Her presentation, titled How Blending…

What Higher Ed Can Learn about Creating Engaging Online and Hybrid Learning Experiences from Bishop Garcia Diego High School

Leading Private High School Uses Echo360 and Zoom to Reach and Teach Students at Home and Abroad When the COVID-19 pandemic forced its campus to close it was no surprise that, like many other schools, Bishop Garcia Diego High School, a private Catholic school in Santa Barbara, CA turned to Zoom to deliver classes remotely….