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Q&A: Helping International Students Succeed with Lecture Capture and Active Learning

Trinity College (an affiliate of the University of Melbourne) uses lecture capture and active learning strategies and technology to encourage participation and engagement for international students, including many non-native English speakers. The Trinity College Foundation Studies program was founded over 25 years ago to bridge the gap between high school and university study, and provides…

Responding to Students’ Expectations at King’s College London

Despite being one of the oldest universities in England, King’s College London is as modern as it gets when it comes to providing a world class learning experience for its students. To meet the demand for 24/7 access to content from today’s 21st century students, King’s College has leveraged Echo360 active learning technology to improve…

Faculty use Active Learning to Engage Busy Executives around the Globe

Comprised of senior executives from over 30 different countries, the Trium Executive Global MBA (Trium EMBA) program at the London School of Economics reaches across the globe. As busy executives, the MBA students need flexibility to complete their work, anytime, anyplace. To meet their diverse needs, the Trium EMBA program uses the Echo360 platform to offer…

The Show Must Go On: Contingency Planning Made Easy

From blizzards to hurricanes, college campuses have seen it all. These events, either natural or manmade, can shut down your campus and disrupt classes, adding unnecessary pressure on faculty and students to cover more content in less time. Fortunately, with the rise of broadband ubiquity and increased access to mobile technology, canceling class doesn’t have…

Law Students Excel with Interactive Courses and 24/7 Access to Classes

In an increasingly competitive student recruitment environment for law school, George Mason University (GMU) School of Law designed compelling programs to attract, accommodate, and retain students. GMU School of Law requires their Juris Doctor (J.D.), Masters of Law (LL.M) degree and the continuing legal education (CLE) programs to be flexible and interactive to support the large…

Technology’s Supporting Role in Engaging the Modern College Student

With the goal to increase course completion and student success, the University of Toledo encourages faculty to leverage active learning technology to increase student engagement. The students sitting in today’s college or university classroom may look different than the college students of two decades ago—but often, the classroom itself hasn’t changed. “Students today are very…

Giving Students More Time for Hands On Learning at Cooper Medical School

The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) is a new medical school that opened in 2012. CMSRU takes a unique approach to training physicians. In traditional medical school, students spend the first two years in classroom attending lectures, only spending years three and four in clinical training. But CMSRU students attend only six hours…

Funding Helps College Improve Engagement in Gateway Courses

Instructors at Metropolitan Community College – Kansas City (MCCKC) are enthusiastic. Without having to change the way they teach or implement a complex system, they are helping more students succeed in gateway courses such as biology, chemistry, composition & reading, U.S. history, and mathematics. “Three Title III grants from the U.S. Department of Education enabled…

Ditching Clickers & Improving Student Engagement & Outcomes

At the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, students spend much of their class time applying their academic reading and theory in clinical, real-world, case-like situations. Critical to Iowa State’s pedagogical model is ensuring that lectures are time well-spent and students are prepared to apply their learning. Student engagement matters, as research tells us. To…

Canvas and Echo360 provide insights into learning

An invitation to join our webinar, Intervention! Identify At-Risk Students with Predictive Data. When: Wednesday, January 20th at 10AM PST / 1PM EST What if you could prevent your at-risk students from failing or dropping your course? Or take your most engaged and successful students and replicate their success among your other students? Join Instructure and Echo360…

How the University of Michigan will engage 2000 statistics students with Echo360 and the HyFlex+ instructional model

Dr. Jackie Miller of the University of Michigan is exercising the innovative HyFlex+ teaching method using Echo360’s active learning and live streaming platform for a statistics course that will engage more than 2,000 undergraduate students when fully deployed in 2016. This team-taught, 200-level course is among the largest courses taught at the university with six…

Unitec Institute of Technology Moves to Collaborative Teaching and Learning Practices with Echo360

Unitec Institute of Technology, located in Auckland, New Zealand is one of the largest polytechnic institutions in the country with more than 18,000 students. While Unitec offers undergraduate degree programs, its main focus continues to be on vocational education and training (VET). An innovator in the area of adopting educational technology, Unitec has made a…

Echo360 Learner Analytics Turn Insight into Action at Indian River State College

Indian River State College (IRSC), located in Fort Pierce, FL, is a 2015 top-ten finalist for the prestigious Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, America’s most respected and selective recognition of sustained high achievement and performance in state and community colleges. Among the factors in their selection was their consistently outstanding results in helping students…

Echo360 Powers the Modern Classroom Experience – Solutions for Every Classroom, Learning Situation, and Budget

Learning moments can happen anywhere, and capturing those moments can be a challenge, but not with Echo360. From field projects, to small classrooms, to state-of-the-art lecture halls we’ve got it covered. The Echo360 active learning platform captures all your learning moments – on any subject and in any location. Echo360 powers the modern classroom experience….

When Students Engage, Grades Improve – Active Learning at the University of Texas, Arlington

Professor Stephanie Cole, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History at the University of Texas at Arlington considers herself to be an early adopter of technology in the classroom. She’s a longtime user of Echo360’s lecture capture technology. This September, she began teaching classes using our active learning platform, a solution that combines real-time learner analytics, student engagement…

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