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Five reasons to use EchoEngage for evaluations

The end of the semester is almost here, and it is time once again to gather student feedback in the form of class evaluations. Although no one’s favorite part of a class, they often serve an important function as the university’s primary means of gauging students’ perceptions of a course. EchoEngage interactive polling and formative assessment software is a straightforward and user-friendly alternative to both paper-and-pencil and computer-based evaluation methods, enabling instructors to customize survey questions to their department or class, and drill down for feedback on specific topics. The Advantages are Clear 1. Simple EchoEngage is an easy-to-use solution…

Video Helps Faulkner University Ensure Academic Continuity and Enhance the Campus Learning Experience

Even with Students Back on Campus, Echo360 Gives Faculty and Students Options to Teach and Learn Remotely through Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Classes Students at Faulkner University returned to campus in the fall of 2020 for in-person instruction. But because of the persistence of the pandemic, university leaders knew they still may need a way for students to learn from a distance. To enhance their capability to deliver remote learning, university leadership selected Echo360 and installed the video learning platform in every classroom on all four university campuses. With Echo360, students who are quarantined, have to miss classes due to…

Workplace transformation

Building employee development programs to meet the needs of a modern workforce

Workplace training gets the pink slip

A friend recently shared with me an article he came across online: Workplace training is the last on the list of favorites, say most employees. The headline definitely caught my attention. The piece features the results of a survey acknowledging that employees view corporate training as their least favorite thing to engage in. No, it’s not limited to a single country or industry. In fact, the survey, conducted by the Center for Learning and Performance Technologies, took more than five years to complete and included 5,000 respondents from 63 countries. Participants were asked to rate 10 ways of learning in…

Workplace conflict resolution strategies and techniques using technology

In any organization conflict is virtually inevitable. People have different values, ideas, styles and personalities, and occasionally they will clash. These problems can range from interpersonal battles to disagreements about the direction of the company. For many managers, handling workplace conflicts is one of the most stressful aspects of the job. To effectively address these problems and reach consensus, company leaders need to get all of the issues on the table so they can be discussed openly, and it’s important that all employees have an opportunity to be heard. It’s important for managers to have workplace conflict resolution strategies and…

Why your classroom response technology should offer clickers and smartphone solutions

According to the Pew Research Center, 94% of adults in the United States ages 18 to 29 own a smartphone. It is not surprising, then, that the debate over utilizing a classroom response system using cell phones and other types of electronic devices is as passionate as ever. Just last year, a New York Times op-ed encouraging instructors to completely ban laptops and other electronic devices during lessons provoked numerous spirited responses ranging from enthusiastic agreement to vehement opposition. A study recently published in Educational Psychology asserting that in-class cell phone use results in lower test scores has prompted similar…

Why We’re Looking Forward to ATD

A brief summary of the reasons we look forward to ATD and the highlights of the 2019 conference in Washington, DC – the world’s largest talent development conference.

Why Has Microlearning Become “a Thing” and Will it Last?

Learners expect to learn more, in less time. Before making the decision to include Microlearning in your L&D strategy, keep in mind these benefits, and some drawbacks.

Why cell phones are useful in schools, now more than ever

In addition, our Echo360Point software makes cell phones valuable engagement tools in a wide variety of ways. Here are just a few strategies to consider.

Why and When You Need Rapid Prototyping?

Do you want to know what rapid prototyping looks like in instructional design? Follow this efficient design model to save time and money while creating courses.

Which Mistakes You Need to Avoid When Designing eLearning

Read about the seven most common eLearning design mistakes that instructional designers make and how to avoid them when creating eLearning courses.

What You Need to Look For in an Authoring Tool

Top characteristics you need to look for when selecting an authoring tool that will meet your designers’ needs and create the best learning experience.

What Will Instructional Design Look Like in the Future?

Take a look at the innovations and trends that will shape the next decade in the ever-changing world of instructional design.

What is the value of employee training and development?

Training and development are vital to ensuring an educated workforce, improving company culture and boosting customer satisfaction. This explains why organizations are often willing to invest significantly in both company-wide and individualized training programs. Of course, while devoting time and resources to employee training is an essential piece of the puzzle, having the right tools to support an effective learning environment is just as important. What is the value of employee training? According to the Association for Talent Development, the average amount organizations invested on training and development in 2017 amounted to $1,296 and 34 hours of training per employee….

The Ultimate Guide to Interactive Learning: Boost Engagement and Retention in Your Learning Spaces

With Echo360Point, instructors have the power to schedule interactive questions to be completed outside of class time.

What is Instructional Design and Why it Matters to eLearning?

An overview of the characteristics and practices of effective instructional design and why it matters to the creation of eLearning.

What is edtech doing with your data?

As we mark one year this May since the General Data Protection Regulation came into force, it is vital that universities have the peace of mind in terms of their data.

What Is a Learning Ecosystem and Should I Get One?

We all have mobile devices that enable the easy discovery and use of content, and employees expect those simple tools to be a part of their work lives, as well as being curated and personalized. A good Learning Ecosystem can do that.

What are the Most Common Authoring Tool and eLearning Myths?

Here’s a quick overview of the most common eLearning and rapid authoring tool myths, and how to bust these myths by separating fact from fiction.

What are the Fundamentals of Performance Consulting?

Learn about the fundamentals of performance consulting and how to determine if training is the right solution for the behavior you want to change.

What are the Advantages of Knowbly’s Content Manager?

Here is how Knowbly’s content manager can resolve designers’ main concerns and help expedite your course design process through time-saving functionality.

What are the Advantages and Disadvantages of Gamification?

Gamification can offer learners exciting and enriching learning environments. But it has both advantages and disadvantages. Here’s a complete overview.

What are Instructional Designers Most Thankful For?

Here is a list of the top 7 industry tools, event, and practices that every instructional designer relies on to make all the difference in their work.

What a difference a clicker makes

What might happen if every student in your class remained engaged? Steve Kortenkamp, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, taught two identical classes for non-science majors last spring. Both classes had the same lectures, the same homework assignments and the same instructor. When Kortenkamp gave the first exam, he understandably expected the results to likewise be the same, or at least reasonably similar. Instead, much to his surprise, he saw striking difference in student performance, with a significant achievement gap even among the highest-performing students. ‍

Ways to Reuse Content Successfully Using a Rapid Authoring Tool

Easily repurpose your existing content into exciting new offerings with a rapid authoring tool to save time and effort. Tips to curate your content include…

Ways Millennials Influence Instructional Design

A look at how the Millennial workforce is influencing instructional design and the top 5 learning strategies to incorporate into their eLearning modules.

Using Echo360Point to support social learning and peer instruction

By Kevin Herrholtz Social Learning Theory posits people learn from one another, via observation, imitation and modeling. The theory has often been called a bridge between behaviorist and cognitive learning theories because it encompasses attention, memory and motivation. Simply put, people can learn better from their peers because they can explain or model things that are at a novice level. An extension of social learning is Peer Instruction. Peer Instruction is a research-based teaching method that leverages the power of social interaction to drive learning. Peer Instruction in practice engages students by posing prepared conceptual questions. The question procedure is…

Using interactive response technology to encourage discussion on the welfare of animals in scientific procedures

There is no other way of getting all participants to engage other than by incorporating the use of Echo360Point into my presentations.

Using audience response systems to train 21st century medical students

Here at Red Square Audiovisuales we have found Echo360Point to be extremely beneficial for enhancing audience engagement and understanding at medical training events

Unmissable 2019 education themes

Talking to one of our Echo360Point users, Christopher Wiley, senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Surrey, the ubiquity of smartphones

You Do You: UDL and Multiple Means of Expression

A brief look into Universal Design for Learning multiple means of expression and how to assess the knowledge of your learner based on your intended goals.

Echo360Point supports “Europa” competition success

Towards the end of 2019 at the University of Madrid, an event organized by the European Transition Organisation used Echo360Point engagement software as part of the exciting “Europa” quiz to encourage engagement among attendees through gamification.

EchoEngage Interactive Learning Solution

Build and facilitate content online for a completely web-based live polling experience for both in-person and remote environments.

Echo360Point for small businesses and entrepreneurs

The challenge, of course, is making sure that you are hearing from everybody, not just the most outspoken.

Training Through Experience-Driven Adult Learning Theories

Experience is something everyone in the workplace has in common. Here is a practical look at adult learning theories that utilize experience as a guide.

Top training tools for employee success

Although asynchronous training is becoming increasingly popular, classroom-style, in-person sessions are still sometimes the best way to go.

Top 5 Course Collaboration Practices for Best Results

An overview of the top five best practices for course designer’s collaboration and their benefits on the courses, designers, and their clients alike.

Top 10 Free Tools Every Instructional Designer Should Know About

A collection of the top free online tools available to make your instructional design projects most efficient and more successful for the best learning experience.

Tips to Onboard Remote Employees

Learn quick tips to ensure an effective and smooth remote employee onboarding process.

Tips to end your semester right with Echo360Point

For many colleges and universities, the end of the semester is just around the corner. These Echo360Point resources are everything you need to wrap up your classes with ease. Update Course Roster »Update your course roster to confirm all students registered for your classes are accounted for. Review Reports »Have you seen an asterisk in student data? Ensure all students will receive credit for their response. Export Grades »Visit our instructor page for school-specific instructions on how to export your sessions to the LMS grade book from Echo360Point. Implement Learning Theories »Get ready for the upcoming semester by taking Echo360Point…

5 Tips on Accelerating eLearning Content While Maintaining Quality

Advice on how to expedite your course creation processes, including the use of rapid authoring tools, while still delivering high quality eLearning content.

Tips from Northwestern University for supporting Echo360Point on campus

Echo360 Technologies’ Client Success Team can work with you to create a customized implementation program to support your goals.

There’s No Such Thing as Bad Content: Only Bad Delivery

Differentiating between content and delivery, as well as providing tips for turning “bad” content into good content delivery.

There’s no such thing as a stupid question

A phrase we’ve all heard in our lives. It’s meant to put us at ease to ask a question in front of our peers without feeling judged or belittled. In fact, the person seeking information may be doing a service to those around them unwilling to speak up. How do we become comfortable enough to ask a question? With Echo360Point interactive polling software, a person can ask or respond to sensitive questions anonymously during difficult or controversial discussions. Echo360Point provides the platform to engage with learners, whether it’s in the classroom or training room. When creating polling questions, you should…

The World of Work is Changing: How to Design Your eLearning to Adapt

Training needs of employees have changed in the past few years. As a result, learning and development professionals need to adapt. Let’s look at how we can change to a new mindset and design for solutions that better meet the learners’ needs.

The Truth About Free Authoring Tools

Most software today is subscription-based cloud software, including authoring tools. The benefits are innumerable, but what are the hidden costs of “free?”

The power of peer instruction

If the more than 100 students in his class mostly get the answer right, he will move on quickly since it is clear that the class understands the concept.

Universal Design for Learning: The Intersection of Flexibility and Specificity

Universal Design for Learning lie three principles: multiple means of Representation, Expression, and Engagement; which we’ll explore in this article.

Should You Open Source Your Educational Technology?

Should we open source our software? Can we? What will it mean for our business? Our users? Should educational technology be open source as a rule?

Hidden Rewards of a Career in Instructional Design

Have you always wanted to find out the hidden rewards of a career in Instructional Design? Below is an overview of the top 5 hidden rewards.

Pump Up Your Training Program in 2020

Is your New Year’s Resolution to revise your training program? Not yet started? Below is an overview of how you can refresh your training program in 5 simple steps.

Micro-learning for Macro Results

Microlearning is a new concept that allows us to design great experiences to learn what’s needed when it’s needed. Get a better understanding of when and how to use it to get the results you desire.

4 Ways to Make Formal Learning Stick

A look at rebuilding formal learning to make learning stick and make it more scalable. Here are four methods that can help with learner retention.

Machine Learning: Best Use Cases in Learning and Development

Learning and Development is a great area to apply AI and Machine Learning. ML gives users relevant data and saves them time.

Key Concepts of Learning Path Design

Designing a digital learning path often relies upon curation, blended learning, and understanding the needs of the learner.

If Instructional Designers Were Superheroes, Which Powers Would They Have?

It has long been suspected that Instructional Designer/Developers do actually possess super powers.

How to Improve Attention Span for Better Learning

Insights on how you can improve and prolong learner attention span and some discussions about the connection between psychology and learning.

Equity, Evidence, and Engagement: Our Formula for Engaged Learning

turning CEO Murad Velani shares turning’s vision for equitable, engaged learning for everyone, everywhere.

Creating Learner Trust Through Interactivity

Don’t throw out your content, reinvigorate it. Interactivity for the sake of it is worthless, but you can easily adapt existing content and apply new modalities in a meaningful way.

Best Practices to Enable Remote Course Instruction

Engaging students who are in a virtual environment necessitates a new set of teaching and training strategies.

ATD International Conference 2019 – Rabid for Rapid Authoring

We’re back from another successful ATD conference, and as excited as ever about the direction that digital training and digital training authoring is heading!

5 ways students can leverage technology to improve academic grades

Guest contributor Jessica Robinson shares 5 ways to engage students in the new normal

The In-Class “Chat Box” – Using An Anonymous Question Platform to Support Students

Senior University Teacher at The University of Sheffield Louise Robson shares tips and data supporting the use of tools to engage all students, creating equity and inclusion in the classroom.

The importance of tracking student attendance

Higher education is about independent learning, and students have the right to manage their own time however they wish, even if this means missing classes.

The importance of continuous learning in the workplace

Echo360Point offers tools that allow instructors to enhance real-time remote trainings and meetings with interactive questions, no conferencing software required

The data-driven classroom: How is data-driven instruction used in schools?

For a time, the phrase “Big Data” was the hottest buzzword in business. These days, “data-driven” is the new catchphrase, signifying a company’s ability to apply the data it generates to accomplish important business objectives, such as increasing profits, expanding marketplaces and improving sales. Data is also increasingly applied outside the business setting, including in education, where standardized testing remains a controversial but critical tool for officials to gauge knowledge levels in states, districts and schools to make decisions about spending. How is data-driven instruction used in schools? Data isn’t just a tool at the macro level. It’s also important…

The Benefits of Being a Cloud-Based Program

Find out what Knowbly’s authoring tool’s latest updates are. As a tremendous benefit of being a cloud-based program, these updates are now available to all users.

Taking a Blended Learning Approach to Corporate Training

The third element of a successful blended learning program takes place behind the scenes from the employees, but is no less important.

Universal Design for Learning: The Intersection of Flexibility and Specificity

Universal Design for Learning lie three principles: multiple means of Representation, Expression, and Engagement; which we’ll explore in this article.

Stop dreaming. Start doing.

A white sandy beach, shallow clear waters, a palm tree basks in the sunlight while slow dancing to a gentle breeze. You? Well, you’re relaxing on a cabana sipping your favorite beverage with the sound of ocean waves hitting the shoreline. Sounds like a paradise dream, does it not? There’s one tiny itsy bitsy problem. You’re in the middle of a training seminar about new company initiatives and you’ve mistaken the conference room for your bedroom. Wake up! We’ve all been guilty of at least once being sidetracked or dozing off in a meeting. Even as companies advance in a…

Situated Learning and the Evolving Learner

Here’s a deeper look into Situated Learning, its place in human history, its relevance to the adult learner, and how important motivation, cooperation, and technology are to the successful outcome of a learning experience.

Should You Open Source Your Educational Technology?

Should we open source our software? Can we? What will it mean for our business? Our users? Should educational technology be open source as a rule?

Safety training with Echo360Point

These customizable presentations, created in collaboration with Consolidated Digital Publishing, Inc.

Hidden Rewards of a Career in Instructional Design

Have you always wanted to find out the hidden rewards of a career in Instructional Design? Below is an overview of the top 5 hidden rewards.

Refine questions and improve assessments with Echo360Point

By Stephanie Naoum Instructors often use the rich data from Echo360Point’s Results by Question report to closely evaluate student learning. However, this feature also holds the key to unlocking valuable insights that can help you refine questions and improve the efficacy of your assessments. The Results by Question report displays the following: Question text Question type Answer choices Responses (percentage and count) Chart Incorrect multiple-choice options, or distractors, are designed to distract your students from the correct answer. Strong distractors are plausible, meaning your students should not know immediately that the distractor is incorrect. When the distractors are not plausible,…

Redefining Product Improvements

Celebrating product improvements that produce improvements.

Quiz whiz

You planned. You taught. Now it’s time to assess. How can you make sure your tests perfectly match instructional material? The answer: test item analysis. It’s the process of examining student responses to test questions in order to determine the validity and reliability of the question and test as a whole. The purpose of test item analysis is to identify defective questions in order to modify or dismiss them and to recognize the content learners have or have not mastered in order to remediate accurately. The key to success involves incorporating interactive teaching practices to engage and spark a learner’s…

Pump Up Your Training Program in 2020

Is your New Year’s Resolution to revise your training program? Not yet started? Below is an overview of how you can refresh your training program in 5 simple steps.

Pre-Planning Considerations for Building Self-Paced Interactives

By pre-planning your interactives through the perspectives of the final visual presentation as well as pedagogical intent.

Online Teaching Conference 2019 (OTC) Recap

Thoughts and musings on a successful and productive conference in Anaheim, CA at the 2019 Online Teaching Conference (OTC).

Narrative Learning: The Value of Storytelling in Adult Education

An exploration of the value of storytelling in learning and its role in the human experience from childhood through adulthood.

Micro-learning for Macro Results

Mesozoic Madness

At first I used clickers as most instructors would do: small engagement, participation and attendance.

Make your company picnic fun for everyone

Summer may be the perfect time for some outdoor fun, but not everybody wants or is able to participate in more physical activities like baseball games or races.

4 Ways to Make Formal Learning Stick

A look at rebuilding formal learning to make learning stick and make it more scalable. Here are four methods that can help with learner retention.

Machine Learning: Best Use Cases in Learning and Development

Learning and Development is a great area to apply AI and Machine Learning. ML gives users relevant data and saves them time.

Location-based attendance: How it’s done!

Now that you have participants enrolled in your course, you are ready to open attendance! If you won’t be utilizing the location-based feature,

Let me ask you a question

How do you create a question in PowerPoint? This is not a trick question, really! We’ve all been there sitting through a mundane presentation daydreaming and counting down the minutes until it ends. It sure can be deflating to the presenter, but by creating effective questions and strategically placing them throughout instruction, you can turn those audience frowns upside down. Learn more about PowerPoint Polling here! Short, sweet & straight to the point Questions should not require a lot of complex calculations that may have participants guessing rather than trying to think through the question. Get rid of the jargon…

Learning vs Training: What is the Difference?

Read this article to distinguish between learning vs training, and create educational content that truly makes a difference in learning.

Learning Technologies 2019 Recap

Learning Technologies is easily one of our favorite events of the year because of the impressive attendance, the efficiency with which the conference is coordinated, but most of all, the quality and depth of conversation that we have with the attendees and exhibitors.

Learning resources for modern classroom teaching

Echo360Point’s immediate feedback gives you the ability to evaluate knowledge and modify lessons in the moment in order to spend more time on challenging subjects.

Key Concepts of Learning Path Design

Designing a digital learning path often relies upon curation, blended learning, and understanding the needs of the learner.

Leadership and accountability: What every leader needs to know

At the end of the day, if you really think about accountability, it’s your ability to freely choose to accept full responsibility for your choices and conduct.

Keeping students engaged through finals week

Students may end up passively listening to your lectures at this point in the semester. I often found myself in cruise control during the final weeks.

Is Your Training Ready for an Elastic Workforce?

A look at the realities of a modern workplace and how you can keep an elastic workforce engaged and growing while improving productivity and employee satisfaction.

Is Your eLearning Achieving the Desired Results?

The top strategies that you need to help you measure the effectiveness of your online courses and enable you to overcome common evaluation challenges.

Is Curation Killing Creation

A look at how curation can assist in your learning strategy, the potential shortcomings of curated content, and tips for its successful integration.

Interface updates make managing results even easier

In the latest version of Echo360Point, we unveiled an updated interface for the Content and Manage tabs. These updates will make management of results more intuitive, decrease on-screen clutter and reduce confusion for new users. One of our favorite changes lives within the Manage tab. We know the time and effort you put into ensuring your students are correctly registered with Echo360 Technologies. This extra energy takes away from what is really important: student learning. Now, instructors can easily see which students are ready for class. Just click the button in the upper right corner to quickly email your students…

InstructureCon 2019 Recap

A common thread at InstructureCon 2019 is the passion to provide the best learning experience. Here is our recap as both an exhibiting vendor and as a peer in the break-out sessions.

Instructor-led to Instructor-less

How to transform lessons, lectures, and courses from an instructor-led environment into an opportunity for learners to interpret.

Inside and outside of class: Using Echo360Point for interactive homework

Students are often hesitant to speak up, and will frequently avoid asking questions in class in order to prevent potential embarrassment.

Increase participation by reducing anxiety

For especially difficult content courses, I think that Echo360 Technologies’ student response is essential.

If Instructional Designers Were Superheroes, Which Powers Would They Have?

It has long been suspected that Instructional Designer/Developers do actually possess super powers.

Hybrid Learning’s New Bag of Tricks

Career educator and Echo360 Foundation director John Wilson looks back and ahead to a new school year requiring new approaches.

Hybrid Learning: Unleashing the Power of ‘And’

How are you ensuring equitable, engaging learning experiences in any environment?

Hybrid Learning: Ditching the Ditch-to-Ditch

How are you prepared to avoid your learning ditches this fall?

How Echo360Point can help with remote learning

During this time of uncertainty, Echo360 Technologies and our support teams remain available to help however necessary.

How to Write Meaningful Learning Objectives

A guide to understanding the importance of learning objectives and how to write meaningful and measurable learning objectives to instruct.

How to take attendance with Echo360Point

Faculty always ask our Client Success Team for ideas on how Echo360Point can help to improve class participation and attendance. Some instructors are particularly concerned that mobile responding may allow students to simply answer interactive questions from home and just skip class altogether. Luckily, we already have a built-in solution to that problem! Echo360Point gives faculty the power to decide what students see on their mobile devices. Using the Display response buttons feature, faculty can display the full question and answers or just the answer buttons. Choose the response-buttons-only option to motivate student attendance. Want to give it a try?…

How to Simplify Content in Complex Training Courses

Here is the ultimate guide on how to simplify and filter your content in complex training courses to provide your learners with only what they need.

How to Master the Art and Science of Content Curation

This blog post explores why content curation is so popular, how to curate, some guidelines and best practices, and why it requires a bit of art and a measure of science.

How to Maintain Quality While Creating Rapid eLearning

Do you want to know how to build quality content with confidence and competence while using rapid authoring tools? Check out these 6 main guidelines.

How to Leverage Leadership to Support Learning Success

Bringing in your leadership team is one of the most effective tools we have to support successful learning. Let’s take a look at how we can leverage them and where they can help.

How to Improve Attention Span for Better Learning

Insights on how you can improve and prolong learner attention span and some discussions about the connection between psychology and learning.

How to Hotspot

Now we can add a hotspot! Do you know where the metacarpals are located on your hand? I’ll show you by selecting my hotspot area.

How to conduct collaborative business meetings in three steps

It’s important to give credit when your collaborator contributes a good idea, hard work or even constructive criticism.

How to Build Effective Online Courses, Part 4

Learn about eight strategies that you must use to catch and keep your learners’ attention when building engaging content in your online courses.

How to Build Effective Online Courses, Part 3

An exploration of the top 6 factors to consider when choosing the right authoring tool for the job and why choosing the right tool makes all the difference in creating online courses.

How to Build Effective Online Courses, Part 2

An overview of the best practices for properly managing eLearning projects and delivering effective online courses that meet learning objectives and needs.

How to ask appropriate poll questions in any setting

Doing some research beforehand by sending a survey to participants can reveal a lot. Ask questions to get a sense of participants’ background, current knowledge,

How to amp up employee engagement with new technology

Post authored by Mike Broderick, CEO of Echo360 TechnologiesNote: This article was originally featured on TrainingIndustry.com. Like many core processes in business, excellence in training depends on relationships. Trainers who can build rapport with learners have a better chance of holding class attention. When instructors can inspire learners from different departments and locations to work together to solve problems, students are more likely to learn new concepts and retain knowledge. In a training session, instructors and students are under time constraints that can make it challenging to allow relationships to develop organically. Some instructors attempt to expedite the rapport-building stage…

How the University of Cincinnati prepares students to thrive

Instructor Educator Lora Sheppard, who teaches introductory physics courses, believes this is a great way to introduce these students to college classes.

How the University of Artois uses Echo360Point to gamify learning

After a fierce fight this year, Quentin Dmytrow, a physics and chemistry student, won the big prize.

How student response technology supports peer instruction and student engagement

The concept of “student engagement” is based on the belief that learning improves when students are interested, inspired and inquisitive. It is widely believed by educators and researchers alike that learning suffers when students are bored, dispassionate or disengaged. Numerous intellectual, behavioral, emotional and physical factors play a role in the learning process, and many research studies have shown that there are connections between being motivated and interested in class and improved attendance, enhanced critical thinking, greater retention of information and increased academic performance. One evidence-based teaching method that has been routinely proven to engage students in class is Peer…

How microlearning can benefit your organization

Both traditional training and microlearning share many of the same benefits, including increasing employee engagement, closing skills gaps and boosting retention.

How Generation Z is Influencing the Future of Instructional Design

An insight into how Generation Z is influencing the future of instructional design and how the generation is viewed by researchers and designers.

How do you write a good poll question?

Asking good poll questions that demand critical thinking not only keeps participants awake, but also encourages interaction, collaboration and communication.

How do you increase student success? Practice, practice, practice!

I’m kind of a data hound, but I hadn’t really looked at how much better it was until after the first exam this semester.

Here are the Top Facts that Will Help You Create Effective eLearning for Generation Z

The following four facts about Generation Z will empower you to create effective content to best meet their needs and the needs of your organization.

Greatest eLearning Challenges and How to Conquer Them

What are the top eLearning challenges that instructional designers face while creating courses? Here’s the list of those obstacles and tips to conquer them.

Gamifying the workplace with interactive polling and audience response systems

What motivates you? Is it money? Power? Pride and accomplishment? A combination of all three? There is no one-size-fits-all solution for motivation. In the business world, a change of scenery in the form of a new job can be the remedy to cure the workplace blues. There’s excitement, rejuvenation and renewed hope as one sets out on a path to new opportunities and learning experiences. But, what happens once the honeymoon stage drifts away? That’s where company trainers come in to get team members engaged and happy. Here’s the bad news. According to a Gallup poll, about 32% of U.S….

Gamification: Most Popular Tips for the Best eLearning Design

How to use the features of your authoring tool to create successful elearning gamification and help you and your learners accomplish the intended outcomes.

“Fun, interactive and engaging” – New research illuminates Echo360Point’s value in the classroom

Do students in a real-world setting find audience response technology to be worthwhile? Even more importantly, do they really experience deeper learning as a result? According to a recent study in the Journal of Chemical Education, the answer to both of those questions is a resounding yes. The study – Tailoring Clicker Technology to Problem-Based Learning: What’s the Best Approach – sought to measure the efficacy of using Echo360Point interactive polling software with student response clickers in chemistry classes at Keele University in the United Kingdom. Study author Russell Pearson, a lecturer in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at Keele, tracked…

Fun and engaging attendance questions for students

One of the questions we are commonly asked is how to write fun and engaging attendance questions for students. Before we go any further, any question can be used as an attendance question if it gets your students thinking! Here is a list of our favorite types of attendance questions to ask your students. Play a music video/music clip and ask the students questions about the: Genre Year Name of the Song Artist Post a political cartoon and ask for feedback relating to the inference. Post a picture of an artist or work of art and ask the students: Who…

EchoEngage Can Deliver Better Anti-Harassment, Anti-Discrimination Training

Echo360Point is one way to break down these barriers and get employees engaged, even if they are uncomfortable or think they have heard it all before.

Four ways to support Team-Based Learning with Echo360Point

Research has shown time and again that active learning enhances the learning process and bolsters student engagement. The big question is how to smoothly integrate these educational theories into the classroom – especially large classrooms – without overburdening instructors. Team-Based Learning is one instructional method designed to address this challenge. With TBL, instruction is based on a three-step cycle – preparation, in-class readiness assurance testing and an application-focused exercise – and can work in small and large classrooms alike. The readiness assurance testing consists of an individual readiness assurance test (IRAT), which students complete individually in class, and a team…

Four uses of Echo360Point student affairs professionals need to know

Run effective orientation programs Orientation programs are often the first comprehensive opportunity for students to interact with the university campus and community. However, student affairs personnel are challenged to make these long, information-heavy sessions engaging learning experiences. The use of interactive polling questions during orientation can serve to: Spur interactive discussions Allow staff to more easily gauge and address the common perceptions, expectations and concerns of the incoming freshman class and their parents Help staff create active learning environments tailored to the specific needs of every orientation group Starting with orientation and continuing through to graduation, student affairs departments provide…

Four Proven Tips for Teaching Online

Echo360 education director John Wilson shares four tips for effective on-line instruction.

Five instructional strategies to increase student success

Persistence. Retention. Student Success. Colleges and universities dedicate committees, task forces and even entire departments to improving these measures in response to nation-wide calls for improved graduation rates. Even more important, these factors are fundamental to fulfilling the promise of a college education for the millions of students that enroll each year. Despite all of this work, many instructors still wonder: Can they truly influence their students’ success? According to a new report from the American Council on Education entitled “Unpacking Relationships: Instruction and Student Outcomes,” the answer is a resounding yes. Citing numerous studies, the report’s author, Natasha Jankowski,…

Finding a new way to teach

Once you have a grip on the above, the dovetailing process can truly begin where we match up the areas of learning you believe could be enhanced by technology.

Express Yourself: UDL and Multiple Means of Expression (Part 2)

A further exploration into the concepts, theories, and importance of providing your leaners with multiple means by which to express their mastery of the subject matter.

Express yourself: Make debates count

It would be fair to say that my days of passionate debating are behind me, but learning to challenge opinions and create positive change is an invaluable life skill.

Explore client success services

The goal of our Client Success Team is to provide every client with an exceptional and positive experience with Echo360Point from the very beginning. You will be assigned a designated Client Success Leader (CSL) to assist you throughout every aspect of your journey with Echo360 Technologies. What can the Client Success Team do for you? TRAINING The CSLs can work directly with various departments in your company or on campus to help ensure the successful onboarding of our technology. We also offer customized train-the-trainer sessions. SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT Your CSL will work with you to identify and develop the resources…

Excellent Examples of How to Successfully Use Gamification in eLearning

How to achieve your learning objectives while challenging your learners to complete engaging and educational games, using examples of gamification in eLearning.

Equity in Education: How are we doing?

Echo360 Foundation director John Wilson shares his thoughts on the state and future of educational equity.

Equity, Evidence, and Engagement: Our Formula for Engaged Learning

turning CEO Murad Velani shares turning’s vision for equitable, engaged learning for everyone, everywhere.

Employability skills: We love a good debate

Utilising debate in your classroom or lecture theatre will enable you to integrate critical thinking with other competencies like teamwork and communication

eLearning Technology: How to Banish Bias So You Don’t Blow the Budget

To increase awareness and improve the likelihood of choosing the best eLearning software for your organization, we’ve compiled this list of common biases to understand and avoid.

Education Funding: The Next Shiny Object

Echo360 Foundation director John Wilson shares his thoughts on finding and funding the right kind of learning technology.

Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Successful Instructional Designer?

Learn about the top eight personality traits of great instructional designers and how they distinguish leading instructional designers from their peers.

Do eLearning Templates Matter? Considerations For Designers And Learners

Templates for eLearning should meet the needs of the learner and the designer. This article will provide some points to consider when choosing to use eLearning templates, or choosing which templates to use.

Digital Learning: Using the Power of Subject Matter Experts

Instructional Designers and SME’s are both essential to creating effective digital learning. Yet it can be difficult to understand how to work with the other. Here’s how Learning and Development can better utilize SME’s to help create content.

Customize your experience with SSO

Require users to leverage the email passed from their SSO when creating a Echo360Point account to prevent account creation with the wrong email address.

CSU: Thinking outside the box

Rather than be deterred, she decided to have students watch videos and use their clickers to record the data.

Creating value in your company training program

By Stephanie Naoum I’m sure you have all attended a training that left you confused, bored or wondering why we were even there. Do the below statements sound familiar? I was a passive listener. The content did not apply to my daily job. I didn’t understand the language/vocabulary used. When designing a training program, it must be clear that the content presented is for your employees. They must feel confident answering the question, “What’s in it for me?” Creating a learner-centered atmosphere enhances your learners’ motivation and engagement. The more your learners value the content, the more they will desire…

Creating Learner Trust Through Interactivity

Don’t throw out your content, reinvigorate it. Interactivity for the sake of it is worthless, but you can easily adapt existing content and apply new modalities in a meaningful way.

Creating a clicker culture in your classroom

By Stephanie Naoum Let’s face it—your students might be hesitant to use a new technology in the classroom. However, by incorporating a new technology, you are creating a more student-centered atmosphere, moving away from passive learning and moving towards an interactive, agile teaching approach. Creating this type of culture cannot and will not happen overnight. The good news is that we are here to help! The below techniques will allow your students to see the value in classroom technology and help them use the new tools effectively for learning. 1. Describe How You Will Use Echo360Point Let your students know…

Control downloads available to instructors in two simple steps

Attention university administrators! You let us know the importance of ensuring that the entire campus community is using the same version of our Echo360Point software, and we heard you loud and clear. Although we still maintain the latest version of the software on our website, our newly launched selective downloads feature was designed to make life easier for administrators who need to restrict their campuses to an earlier version. It allows administrators to: Show or hide software visible in instructors’ Echo360Point accounts Restrict the software shown to a specific version Using this feature is easy. Step 1: Login to your…

Classroom success tips: Preparing students using interactive clicker technology

When preparing for the beginning of a semester, instructors let their students know what textbooks they need, where they can locate additional resources and what is expected of them in the course. But are the students always adequately equipped to use required interactive technology, such as Echo360Point, in their classes? Dr. Meshagae Hunte-Brown, Full Teaching Professor in the Biology department at Drexel University, takes a little time at the start of any course to ensure that her students are ready to click in from the beginning. Dr. Brown has developed and currently teaches a range of non-major courses in biology…

Building Effective Online Courses, Part 1

An overview of the steps needed to build effective online courses, starting by taking a deeper look at the why and how to conduct a needs analysis.

Best Practices to Enable Remote Course Instruction

Engaging students who are in a virtual environment necessitates a new set of teaching and training strategies.

Best icebreaker polling questions to get to know your audience

Speaking on a topic that is controversial? Do a quick poll to see where everyone stands, and to set the stage for whatever points you are about to make.

Audience response systems: What you need to know

An audience response system allows instructors to ask interactive questions, track learner progress and receive instant feedback.

ATD International Conference 2019 – Rabid for Rapid Authoring

We’re back from another successful ATD conference, and as excited as ever about the direction that digital training and digital training authoring is heading!

Ask meaningful student polling questions with Echo360Point

The key to keeping participants engaged and involved during presentations is to ask the right questions. Echo360 Technologies’ audience response clickers and mobile student response solutions can provide the tools you need to apply proven learning theories and incorporate meaningful questions that inspire learners to think critically while encouraging interaction, collaboration and communication. Monitor Comprehension (Agile Teaching) Student clicker questions can help instructors ensure material is effective by asking participants to recall concepts mid-presentation or by delivering pre- and post-tests. Being able to analyze comprehension instantly allows instructors to utilize the Agile Teaching method and tailor a presentation to each…

Application of Learning Theories in the Workplace

Behaviorism is often a theory that instructional designers default to if they do not have formal training.

Active Learning Strategies (Passive is out, Active is in)

Organizations themselves are looking for competitive advantages. Training is at the center of this competitive advantage.

A tradition of Echo360Point

Kingsley is glad that his colleagues are getting good use out of the technology, since it is such a vital part of his own classes.

6 ways to save time with Echo360Point interactive polling software

Dedicated instructors and student success are at the core of higher education. Echo360Point is an easy-to-use engagement and assessment solution that streamlines the business of teaching to give instructors more time to focus on what matters most–providing a quality learning experience. Capture a Snapshot of Student UnderstandingImmediate feedback from students lets instructors check comprehension and tailor lessons in the moment to meet the needs of each individual class. Accelerate learning and poll with mobile devices, clickers or both in the same classroom! Quickly Take Attendance No need to waste time scanning ID cards or marking everyone’s attendance by hand. Just…

6 ways to make new-employee orientation better than ever

Echo360Point provides an opportunity for them to test their knowledge, and also serves to break up the session and keep them engaged.

6 important benefits of employee training

As you build programs for your own employees, the most important first step is determining what you want the benefits to be.

6 Compelling Reasons to Use eLearning Templates

Templates are an excellent method for producing content. Here’s a look at how to save time and consistently produce high-quality content using eLearning templates.

5 ways students can leverage technology to improve academic grades

Guest contributor Jessica Robinson shares 5 ways to engage students in the new normal

5 Strategies for Creating More Memorable Learning Content

A summary of the top strategies you can use today to create learning content that will remain in your learners’ long-term memory.

5 poll questions to ask during new-hire trainings

Here are 5 polling questions to ask in new-hire training to keep your audience engaged and coming back!

5 effective blended learning strategies

In situations where virtual interactions need to replace in-class sessions, students can still respond from any location using their own cell phones, tablets and computers.

5 creative ways to utilize our scheduling feature

Utilizing multiple choice questions as well as short answer is sure to diversify responses.

5 Course Examples That Inspire Creativity

Instructional designers can get stumped for ideas much like writer’s block. Here are some top course examples that can help get the creative juices flowing.

4 ways to address sensitive issues in the classroom and the office

Political opinions. Alcohol and drug use. Company culture. Mental health. Discussions surrounding sensitive topics like these are vital to not only the college student experience, but also very much applicable to ensuring employee success. However, when these subjects come up, the silence is often deafening. No one wants to feel judged or embarrassed, and many fear being alone in their views or experiences. To create a supportive community, instructors need to provide a safe environment where everyone can be heard. This is where Echo360Point’s anonymous polling feature – which instantly displays answers to interactive questions in aggregate without any connection…

4 types of great polling questions to keep your audience engaged

Not only is numeric response a great question type for all things mathematical, it can be used for any question with a number association.

4 Tried and True Strategies for Online Teaching

Echo360 education director John Wilson shares four strategies for effective on-line teaching.

4 Reasons Why you Need to Use the ARCS Model Today

Know how to appeal to learners by motivating them to complete your educational content using the ARCS Model and increase learner engagement.

4 employee retention strategies

Given how difficult and costly this can be, it’s clear to see why employee retention is the real lifeblood of any organization.

3 ways to strengthen learning with gamification and interactivity

Post authored by Mike Broderick, CEO of Echo360 TechnologiesNote: This article was originally featured on TrainingIndustry.com. To reach learners in a corporate training session and ensure knowledge retention, instructors must first capture the attention of the class. That can be a challenge, particularly during long training sessions that require constant focus on learning materials. Top-down lectures that require learners’ attention without their direct participation is a hard sell no matter how skilled the instructor or compelling the presentation. Using technology tools to improve training and development programs by making sessions more fun and interactive can be an ideal solution. Just…

3 Polling app options for the classroom

Multiple question types allow you to offer diverse engagement options to your classroom. Asking multiple choice questions is a classic use of engagement software.

2019 Predictions: A New Era in Learning and Development

The advent of technology in learning, a blending of content, and the ability to easily create and curate content has brought us to a new era. So, what’s next? See what’s in store for 2019.

10 Most Important eLearning Trends to Watch for in 2020

A preview of the most important 10 eLearning trends and practices that will define the next decade of curriculum development and design.

Take Advantage of Interactive Teaching Tools for Outstanding Learning Experiences

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…

Self-Paced Classes: Achieving Equity with an Unequal Timetable

Many of us live in countries who use holidays to celebrate historic or religious events; think Diwali, Thanksgiving, Eid al-Fitr, ANZAC day and the Queen’s birthday. But, what if, like Marcie Connor, Coordinator for Animal Studies and RSPCA at Box Hill Institute, you also have a cohort of students with a scheduled class on that day of the week. She’s teaching two cohorts of students for the same course; one who have chosen to study on a Thursday and the other on a Monday. And this semester there are five holidays falling on a Monday, equating to 15% of the…

4 Tried and True Strategies for Online Teaching

While online teaching did not begin with the pandemic, it has definitely taken off in a whole new way since the spring of 2020. For educators who are new to distance learning, it can be challenging to know which online teaching techniques work best — or even where to start. Echo360 enables exceptional learning experiences for in-person, hybrid, and online classrooms alike with our e3 philosophy as the top priority. Equity, evidence, and engagement are front and center with all of our user-friendly solutions. EchoPoll makes it easy to design, set up, and run online classes; Point Solutions, a flexible…

Equity, Evidence, and Engagement: Our Formula for Engaged Learning

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust instructors in the corporate and academic worlds into a new normal where nothing seems normal. In this article, I’ll explain how concretely defining an effective learning engagement model can bring stability to instructors and learners alike. With expansive growth in education technology over the past several decades, online learning was already on a swift trajectory. Still, nobody expected virtual learning to be forced upon the masses so quickly and ubiquitously. The pandemic turned the education ecosystem upside down. To be honest, the eLearning industry wasn’t prepared for the tsunami of schools, community organizations, and corporations…

The In-Class “Chat Box” – Using An Anonymous Question Platform to Support Students

Hybrid Teaching Offers Opportunities for Increased Student Engagement The move to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly been challenging for the higher education sector. However, it has also provided an opportunity for us to teach and support students in very different ways. With the transition back into the classroom, it is essential that we reflect on our experiences during COVID-19 and identify what aspects of digital teaching we want to retain. This might involve keeping some aspects of our teaching online, but also how we can utilise digital technologies in the physical classroom to enhance the learning experience…

Four Proven Tips for Teaching Online

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed learning online in a major way, serving to accelerate a trend that was already making waves in higher education and employee development. Instructors in Higher Ed, K12, Corporate, and Government organizations are expected to be able to teach just as effectively online as they could in a traditional classroom setting. If your organization needs tips for teaching online, one of the best is to choose a learning engagement platform built for everyone, everywhere. The expanded suite of Echo360 and Echo360 products offer practical solutions for in-person, virtual, and hybrid learning that redefines learning engagement: EchoPoll, a…

In-Person, Online, or Hybrid: Small Universities Tap Into the Power of Video Learning to Deliver Instruction in Multiple Ways

Campus-Wide Deployment of Echo360 Helps Brewton-Parker College Support Student Athletes and Older Learners While Improving the Residential Learning Experience Over the course of just a few weeks during the fall of 2020, Brewton-Parker College completed a campus-wide installation of the Echo360 video platform. In addition to conducting face-to-face classes on campus, now the college can deliver hybrid and asynchronous online learning with Echo360. In the spring of 2022, the college plans to offer synchronous online learning by using Echo360 to live stream classes to students who are not able to be physically present in class. Echo360 lecture recordings help the…

Enhancing the Experience of Language Learning with Echo360

Dr Xinyi Tan, Assistant Professor of Chinese and French, and author of a chapter in the 2021 book, Designing Courses with Digital Technologies, is a great advocate of using technology to support student success. Using the Echo360 video learning platform, Dr Tan has created a flipped learning environment that helps her ensure students grasp the complexities of Mandarin and progress towards fluency. To support her initial interest she quotes Wang and Qi (2018), “Research has shown that the interactive and communicative nature of language learning is well suited to the flipped learning environment, where the time students spend practicing inside…

Academic Video at A.T. Still University: Supporting the Mission to Train Healthcare Professionals with a Learner-Centered Focus

University Wide Echo360 Deployment Delivers Video-Based Learning on Multiple Campuses and Reaches a Global Student Community A.T. Still University (ATSU) began as the world’s first osteopathic medical school and has grown into a leading graduate health sciences University with online and residential programs across campuses in Kirksville, Missouri, and Mesa, Arizona, as well as its newest learning site established in Santa Maria, California. The University offers multiple master’s and doctorate degree programs in medicine, dentistry, health sciences, and health management. Since 2011, ATSU has used Echo360 as its classroom capture and video management solution. Echo360 is deployed University-wide in…

ICYMI: Final Day of Echo360 User Community Conference Focuses on How Echo360 Supports Higher Education’s “Hybrid Future”

Users Share How Echo360 Provides Critical Tools to Help Meet the Post-COVID Demands for Online and Hybrid Learning Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This is the third in a series of three articles recapping presentations from each day. The final day of our user community conference featured users whose experience with Echo360 ranged from just a year to ten years and more. They shared how they used Echo360 to deliver emergency remote learning and how the platform is helping them to meet the increasing demand for online and hybrid learning post-pandemic. University of Houston-Clear Lake…

Watch Party for Education

“Online live lecture watch parties are amazing because it feels a lot more engaging than just having to watch the already recorded lecture alone.” (Student) In 2020, Senior Psychology Lecturer, Emily Nordmann and her colleagues were trying to address a new challenge; supporting first and second year students who had opted for a traditional on-campus university experience who suddenly found themselves learning in lockdown. These students wanted a face-to-face lecture that offered similar benefits to being on-campus and were hoping for the engagement and sense of belonging that comes with peer interaction. Nordmann also found that, especially among first year…

How Echo360 Became an Essential Teaching and Learning Tool at Northampton Community College

Emphasis on Faculty Training and Development Helps to Drive Adoption of Academic Video in More Than 500 Courses When Beth Ritter-Guth became Associate Dean for Online Learning & Educational Technology at Northampton Community College in 2019, one of her first tasks was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the educational technology used on campus. She focused on adoption because she knew that even the best technology provides little benefit if it isn’t used. A tool that immediately caught her eye was Echo360. Although faculty members had access to Echo360 for several years, they had been slow to incorporate the video learning…

EdTech Leaders Share the Benefits of Replacing Kaltura with Echo360 as Their Campus Video Platform

Lowering costs, reducing complexity, and providing better user experiences are the primary benefits of standardizing on Echo360 Two EdTech leaders recently shared reasons why their institutions selected Echo360 over Kaltura when consolidating their campus video applications. They described how, with Echo360, they can effectively manage all their video content on campus while providing their faculty and students with engaging digital learning experiences in classroom, hybrid, and online teaching modalities. By consolidating on Echo360, each of these universities have been able to eliminate redundant systems, reduce cost and complexity, and make it easier for faculty and students to create, share, and…

Echo360 Takes the LMS to a New Dimension

Echo360 has made a significant investment in integrating with learning management systems (LMS) meaning that it now works entirely inside your LMS for easy inline content creation and embedding. One university that knows all about this is Brock University, a public research university serving more than 19,000 students in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. While they do not record content in lecture theatres, Brock selected Echo360 as their campus video platform based on the product’s tight, seamless integration with the LMS. Matt Clare, associate director of technology-enabled learning, told me, “We were seeking options for strengthening our video inside the LMS….

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

Users Share Experiences Using Echo360 to Boost Student Engagement, Promote Greater Participation and Inclusivity, and Improve Student Outcomes Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This is the second in a series of three articles recapping presentations from each day. Presenters during day two of the Echo360 User Community Conference tackled the topics of inclusivity and the importance of providing different ways for students to attend classes. They highlighted the many ways they use Echo360 to create engaging learning experiences that can help their institutions attract and reach a wider group of students. Echo360 Provides the Tools…

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 to video presentations. Echo360 held its first ever virtual user community conference from July 27-29, 2021. The event began with a pre-conference training workshop hosted by Echo360 customer success managers Jason Gildner and Dr. John Couperthwaite. Workshop attendees ranged from new Echo360 users to those…

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 teaching designed to keep students engaged and make progress, whether they are on campus or learning remotely. She’s been teaching this way for years—and her students love it. Giving Students More Choice All Holly’s lectures are designed with Echo360 and the 3-in-1 hybrid model in…

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 that time, I was one of a handful of instructors at my institution using Echo360 consistently in my online courses, and student response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Students frequently reached out to me to thank me for posting the videos and the use of instructional video…

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 animal behaviour and the impact of animal-human interactions, Jill published her first book in 2018, which offers great insight into how the individual personalities of animals can affect how we treat and care for pets, livestock and wildlife. Jill’s interest in behaviour extends to humans…

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. Previously used only within the School of Medicine and College of Pharmacy, the university adopted Echo360 in all 12 colleges and schools by the fall term in 2020. With Echo360, Mercer was able to reach students who had to miss class or were required to…

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 New Zealand, our software was recording around 25,000 recordings per teaching week and hundreds of thousands of students were using our technology every day to re-listen to their lectures, clarify concepts that the instructor had shared, and revise for their examinations. Our company – now…

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 classes are presented and delivered. This includes more online and hybrid learning options. A novel approach to hybrid teaching and learning described in a recent Echo360 webinar may give students the kind of flexibility they are looking for. Dr. John Drea, a professor of business…

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, Professor of English, Wilkes Community College Echo360’s interactive media enables instructors, such as Meret Burke, to insert questions into video content to increase student engagement and quickly assess student understanding of the material. Asking students to respond to a question within a video is a…

Academic Video at A.T. Still University: Supporting the Mission to Train Healthcare Professionals with a Learner-Centered Focus

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

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

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

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

Echo360’s Interactive Media Turns Passive Video into Active Learning

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