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Learning Fearlessly Part 3: Enhancing Teaching and Learning Effectiveness in the Classroom

In this last blog of a three-part series, I discuss perspectives on how strategic uses of LectureTools can be used to enhance teaching and learning effectiveness in the classroom. Indeed, now in my second year of teaching my courses with LectureTools, I’m consistently finding new ways of using its features to maximise the student learning…

Is Flipping the Classroom an Effective Teaching Method?

For educators looking to increase student engagement and performance, flipping the classroom holds great promise. With an educational model that works for more learning styles, the flipped classroom may be the classroom of the future. Understanding this model and the potential educational gains will help the modern educators make wise decisions. What Is the Flipped Classroom?…

Spark Student Curiosity Through Increased Classroom Engagement

The stereotypical classroom, where the instructor drones on in the front and students slump bored in their seats, is not a place where learning takes place. In order for students to learn, they must be engaged in what they are doing, which sparks further curiosity and greater achievement. For today’s educational leaders who want to encourage…

Leslie’s List: It’s All About the Smartphone Edition

Device distraction. It’s everywhere. Next time you go to your local Starbucks, count the number of people in line screen surfing on their smartphones with their heads down, oblivious to the world around them. We’re all guilty. Yes, I am ashamed to admit having walked into a wall or two while checking email on my…

Learning Fearlessly Part 2: Does Fearless Engagement Translate into Class Performance?

Undeniably, research on the benefits of using student response systems has shown that their strategic use supports active learning approaches in a wide variety of learning environments. The use of LectureTools and its various features facilitates anonymous student answers and enhanced communication with the professor. The types of questions an educator can use to engage…

5 Secrets to Spectacular Student Success: Learning Fearlessly Part 1

While student response systems (SRS) have been around well over a decade, it is not until recently that I have started taking advantage of their pedagogical benefits. In the span of time since my first implementation of SRS-associated peer-instruction approaches (4 years ago), SRS technology has greatly evolved from hand held clickers (with analogue transmission…

Leslie’s List: Is It Spring Yet?

This week has been another doozy in terms of cold and snowy weather throughout most of the United States. I’m confident that I’m just one of millions wondering if spring will ever arrive and why we keep asking a bucktoothed (but cute and cuddly) groundhog his opinion on the matter. Nonetheless, being stuck inside this…

Delaware State “Flips” over Active Learning for STEM education

Delaware State University’s (DSU) biology department was awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant was used to implement a flipped classroom environment for two freshman science classes, cell biology and genetics. Echo360 was selected as the active learning and lecture capture technology that will support the flipped learning model. The decision…

The 3 Lecture Capture Metrics that Matter

So you’ve identified the need, previewed all of the solutions and have deployed your selected lecture capture technology throughout your institution. Now what? Like any major investment, you and your administration want proof that your technology spend was a wise one that will stand the test of time in the ever-changing digital landscape. But…

Active Learning: Flipped, Scrambled, but Never Over-Easy

I’m sure you’ve heard of blended or hybrid learning, methods that combine both online and in-in-class instruction. And I’m also sure you’re familiar with the flipped classroom, where students are asked to view video lectures at home, and then apply what they have learned when they arrive in class. Since 2013, Dr. Thomas Aicher, Assistant Professor…

Leslie’s List: It’s All About the Students

Last week, my blog post focused on best practices and handy tips for flipping your classroom. In today’s round up of the best posts around the Web, we’re looking at things from the student POV. Because let’s face it, that’s why we all do what we do – to give students the best learning experience…

Maximizing Your Lecture Capture Investment – Webinar

Join us on February 19, 2015 at 11AM EST for our webinar: Maximizing Your Lecture Capture for the Future. Attendees will hear from a panel of guests from Case Western Reserve University, a trailblazer in the innovative campus-wide use of lecture capture to enhance teaching and learning. The topics covered in this one hour webinar…

Just Flip It

So are you tired of the term “flipping” yet? And no, I’m not talking about the type of flipping Seattle Seahawks’ Jermaine Kearse did with that crazy, one-in-a-million catch in last weekend’s Super Bowl. The flipped classroom is all the rage and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. This innovative pedagogical method continues to make…

Leslie’s List: The Big Game Edition

This week brought Echo360 team members from across the US and around the globe together for our Winter Sales Meeting. Based on the informative presentations and great information shared between colleagues, it’s shaping up to be an exciting 2015 as we introduce the new Active Learning Platform into even more institutions. One of the best…

Leslie’s List: SOTU Edition

If you live the US, you know the water cooler talk this week surrounds President Obama’s State of the Union Address. As expected, the President officially detailed the plan and driving factors behind his America’s College Promise (#FreeCommunityCollege) proposal. The proposal, which will offer two years of free community college to responsible students, would…

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