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Passive Video vs. Active Learning Players: Which Works Better for Student Engagement and Outcomes?

There are a lot of lecture capture players out there in the marketplace today. However, for improving outcomes in and out of the classroom, YouTube-style lecture capture players that mainly show video and slide content simply don’t go far enough to improve learning. That’s why we built the best-in-category Echo360 active learning player – it…

Is Your Lecture Capture Solution a Golden Oldie?

Does your institution have a lecture capture solution? Or, are you considering investing in lecture capture now or in the future? If either case is true, we’d like to let you in on a little secret. Lecture capture technology by itself is not enough. Capturing a video in your classroom is easy. But, does your…

Flipping the Class for Hands-On Training and Deeper Learning

The flipped classroom has taken the education world by storm, but nowhere is this model more useful than in the vocational education setting. TAFE and VET institutions across Australia and New Zealand are turning to the flipped classroom to prepare their students with the skills and experience they’ll need to succeed in their vocation of…

Kick Off June with 30 Days of #LectureCapture

These days, “lecture capture” is as familiar a term as “final exam” on campuses of higher learning around the world. Millions of students, who’ve grown up in the age of technology and YouTube, can’t even begin to imagine what learning was like before the days of lecture capture and on-demand content. But there’s much more…

Flipping the Classroom: Increase Engagement and Enhance Learning

The flipped classroom, where students review content prior to class and classroom time is spent discussing or acting on what was learned, is a model that’s trending among instructors and students alike. Here are some reasons that flipping the classroom makes sense. 1. Increase Student Engagement Students are often tuned out or surfing social media…

Canopy Learning Ecosystem Pilots Echo360 Lecture Capture at the University of Cincinnati

Attendees at our recent Active Learning Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago learned first-hand about an initiative at the University of Cincinnati that is developing a set of integrated hardware and software tools designed to benefit the entire institution. The initiative, called Canopy is described as a “learning ecosystem.” Within it, students will…

Active Learning: Engaging Visual Learners at Box Hill Institute

Box Hill Institute offers both vocational and higher education programs and degrees in a wide array of programs ranging from Hospitality and Tourism to Construction and Plumbing. According to Pauline Farrell, former Box Hill Institute Executive Manager of Blended E-Learning Solutions, approximately 60 percent of students enrolled in these programs study part-time, both locally and…

8000 Classrooms: Lecture Capture Helps to Serve a Large and Diverse Student Population

Today’s edition of 8000 Classrooms takes us to one of the largest regional training providers in Australia, North Coast TAFE. North Coast TAFE, part of TAFE NSW, provides courses and training to more than 45,000 students per year. Its mission is to provide high quality personalized vocational training to build prosperity, sustainability, and innovation. We…

Education Focused Technology Closes Learning Gaps with Data

For educators, one of the primary goals faced every day in the classroom is to close the achievement gap between higher-performing students and those that struggle. Technology in the classroom may provide the tools to help bridge that gap. Recent studies have found that the use of technology by qualified instructors offers a solution. Alliance…

Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in Higher Education

Which is better on the college level, classroom-based education or online education? The answer, to many, is actually a mix of both. Blended education replaces a portion of the face-to-face interactions in the classroom with online lecture and activities for the best of both worlds. Does Blended Learning Work? Blended learning is still, in many…

Alphacrucis College: Engaging Students Near and Far with Echo360

Alphacrucis College, a leading theological education provider with multiple campuses across Australia, attracts a diverse group of traditional, non-traditional and international students to its vocational, undergraduate and postgraduate programs. With distance students attending courses from Japan to Sydney, they needed a more efficient way to literally “bring the classroom to the students” in the same…

6 Ways to Help Increase Classroom Participation

Do your students need a little boost to keep them engaged and participating in your learning activities? Here are six strategies you can implement to encourage better classroom participation. 1. Enable Anonymous Questioning When content is difficult, students are not always open to exposing their confusion or misunderstandings in front of their peers. Anonymous questions…

Student Engagement and Learning Analytics Go Hand-in-Hand

For today’s colleges and universities, data mining and analytics goes beyond the task of drawing the right students to the schools. It also helps shape the educational experience and learning outcomes once students are enrolled. In fact, learning analytics can be invaluable, not just to help predict student outcomes, but also to craft the learning…

A Brief History of How Education’s Technological Landscape Has Changed

With the advent of mobile devices, laptops, and extended education spanning the educational landscape, it’s easy to think that technology is a new player in the world of education, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth. In fact, technology has been part of education since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Here’s a quick…

8000 Classrooms: Creating Engagement Through the Flipped Classroom at CWRU

Today our 8000 Classrooms series takes us to the campus of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) located in Cleveland, Ohio. CWRU is home to more than 10,000 students from all 50 states and from 91 countries. While shooting a video there recently documenting CWRU’s use of Echo360, we had the opportunity to meet Dr. Genevieve…

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