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Vet-Med Students Learn Vital Surgical Skills through Video, Allowing More Time for Practice and Feedback

Serving between 60-120 students per lab, and as many as 480 students per semester, Dr. Frank Cerfogli, a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, used to spend most of his time teaching students how to perform and master surgical techniques and procedures by going student to student and providing…

New Reporting Dashboard Brings Real-Time Insights to Administrators & Institutions

One of the benefits of Echo360’s SaaS architecture is the ability to track usage activity across the entire video platform. When we launched our new cloud service several years ago, our initial focus was on providing instructors with classroom analytics to shed new light on their students. This valuable data has been used by thousands…

Connecting Minds – It Takes a Village. A Recap of the THETA 2017 Conference

Echo360 Learning Technologist Alison Maloney shares her insights in this recap of the THETA 2017 Conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. Echo360 was used to record all keynote presentations and conference sessions. “Alone we are smart. Together we are brilliant.” – Steven Anderson Japanese Honey Bees have a process of communication and collaboration within the…

Formative Assessment: Creating Assessments for Learning

We hear it more and more as we support students to become lifelong learners and shift the focus from learning content to learning experience, ‘assessment FOR learning versus assessment OF learning.’ Since Michael Scriven used the terms formative and summative assessment in 1967 to differentiate between goals for assessment and how the information is used,…

Flipping the Classroom is Flipping Awesome

Today, innovative educational technology gives us opportunities to apply knowledge in the classroom rather than just disseminating information. Personally, I think that technology has finally caught up with what we’ve always known about teaching and learning. Nowhere is this more evident than with the concept of the flipped classroom. And although Campus Technology’s 2016 Teaching…

New Study Finds Echo360’s Lecture Capture Technology Improves Student Confidence and Boosts Performance in the Classroom

Research by the University of Ottawa shows that majority of students are satisfied with lecture capture and agree that it makes it easier for them to learn Technology usage in today’s classroom is at an all-time high – but often, there isn’t an accurate way to measure the outcomes of using it. This promoted Jovan…

Energizing the (Student) Base with Video and Active Learning: Faculty Perspectives

Faculty members from various colleges and universities recently gathered in Dallas, Texas at the Echo360 Active Learning Conference to network with peers, share their experiences and learn about best practices in the classroom. We were lucky enough to hear a few of them speak on a panel about their experiences on the front lines of…

Financial Aid and Grand Rounds: Extending Video and Active Learning Outside of the Classroom at Wake Forest School of Medicine

The use of video in the classroom and in lecture halls is widespread. However, video has many other applications outside of traditional classroom settings. More and more, universities use video to live stream events, conduct faculty and staff professional development, and to facilitate peer-to-peer learning. At our recent Dallas Active Learning Conference, Jayson Grogan, Manager…

Echo360 – Your Partner in Higher Education

When deciding on an educational technology to incorporate into your students’ experience, it’s important to choose a platform that is focused on student success and understands the characteristics of higher education. When asked to describe Echo360 in one word, customers didn’t hesitate. “A tool worth trying” says Dr. Nilakshi Veerabathina, professor at University of Texas…

Vocational Training Institutions Offer a Flexible Edge for Today’s Students

Today’s students look different than years ago and often struggle to keep up-to-date with their studies given the demands of work and everyday life obligations. To address this challenge, TAFE and RTO institutions in Australia and New Zealand are finding new and creative ways to reach students both inside and outside of the classroom and…

Breathing Life into the Age-Old Lecture: Flipping the Classroom Can Increase Student Engagement

Eight seconds. That’s a person’s average attention span, according to recent research. It should come as no surprise then that today’s digitally-savvy student has a hard time paying attention during a 50-minute lecture. To combat the passive approach to the lecture, one professor at the University of Sheffield uses Echo360 to flip his classes, and…

How to Scale Lecture Capture Campus-Wide: A Use Case from the University of Sheffield

By the end of 2017-18 academic year, every student at the University of Sheffield will be able to view any lecture online immediately after class and access the video on-demand from their computer or mobile device, thanks to the University’s expansion of Echo360’s lecture capture technology campus-wide. Driven by student demand for lecture capture technology…

How We Built The Most Reliable Software Capture for the Classroom. Again.

Echo360 has always had the most reliable capture options available for the education market. In large part, this has been due to our purpose-built hardware appliances like the PRO and the POD that are up to ten times more reliable than traditional software capture on a PC. However, as our clients continue to expand the…

Transforming Classrooms by Rethinking Video Strategy – Webinar

What role does video play in the future of teaching and learning? How can video drive more engagement and better student outcomes? A team of academic and IT experts from the University of Cincinnati recently overhauled their campus-wide video strategy and implemented next-generation lecture capture technology to transform classrooms across their 14 colleges. Join us…

Echo360’s Dr. Bradley Fordham Named Most Trusted CTO by Industry Experts

This week, Softech INTL, the leading technology industry news provider, announced the winners of the 2017 CTO of the Year awards, and we’re very excited to announce that Dr. Bradley Fordham, Echo360’s Chief Technology Officer has been named for two awards, including the Leading Expert in Active Learning Technology and Most Trusted CTO of the…

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