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Be the Master of Your Content

The Active Learning Platform enables you to engage students and capture your lectures and other instructional content anywhere, anytime. But once you’ve captured the content you’ve worked so hard to curate, how do you make sure your recordings don’t get lost in some vast video wasteland? Two words: Learning Library. You’ve got enough on your…

Why You Want Students Talking Back: Taking the Awkward Out of Class Participation

With the Active Learning Platform, it’s never been easier to boost engagement levels and get everyone (yes, even the most disengaged trying to disappear in the back row) involved in the discussion. Because if they’re not talking or asking questions, they could be either A) surfing social media, B) zoned out, or C) all of…

Lecture Capture: Liberate and Calculate the Learning Moment

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, Tools That College Students Wish Their Instructors Used Either More or Less, 2013; Research conducted by Educause Center for Analysis and Research; Findings developed from a representative sample of 10,000 students from 226 American colleges and universities In our previous blog post, we gave you an overview of the new…

The world’s first integrated Active Learning Platform

At first glance, it seems uncanny. How can so many capabilities, all developed with insight from educators like you, reside in one simple-to-use teaching and learning solution? It boils down to this: We’ve put the best of teaching technology into one easy-to-use, cloud-based solution. Lecture capture, instructional content management, student engagement, and learning analytics, all…

The Future of IT on Campus

Mike Kubit, COO Case Western Reserve University, Information Technology Services Shares his Perspectives at our Active Learning Conference They are often the “unsung heroes” who get the blame when technology does not work, but rarely get full credit when it performs as expected. About whom are we talking? Why campus information technology services of course!…

Increasing grades when active learning is used in STEM education

STEM courses are often plagued by high attrition rates, especially in introductory classes. But new research sheds light on ways to reduce attrition and increase pass rates for students in rigorous STEM courses. The research was published in the National Academy of Sciences and authored by researchers at the University of Washington and the University…

Active Learning Comes to Life at Case Western Reserve University

When you flip a STEM class of more than 300 students, students and teachers both learn important lessons. Case Western Reserve University is one of the nation’s top universities. This independent, leading research institute offers world-class academic programs in Cleveland’s culturally vibrant University Circle. Technology plays a critical role in delivering that academic experience. CWRU…

More Clicks, Fewer Bricks – Is the Lecture Hall Obsolete?

Two teams faced off to an Oxford style debate last week on NPR to argue the motion, “More Clicks, Fewer Bricks: The Lecture Hall is Obsolete.” The team debating for the motion was comprised of EdX founder and MIT professor Anant Agarwal along with Ben Nelson, Chairman and CEO of The Minerva Project. The team…

Dell and Echo360 Partnership Expands

Earlier today, we announced the expansion of our partnership with Dell to sell the Echo360 Active Learning Solutions around the world. Over the past year, Dell and Echo360 have connected 425 classrooms with Echo360 active learning solutions to reach thousands of students at leading institutions including Yale University and City University of London. The expanded…

Echo360 2014 Active Learning Conference

Cleveland Rocks! If you’re on the campus of Case Western University in Cleveland for the Echo360 Active Learning Conference on April 29, you may want to bring along an extra pair of shades. You might need them to fend off the lights of the paparazzi. That’s because some of the most prominent personalities in active…

MOOCs – Are they an Innovation or a Distraction?

Over the past two weeks, we’ve added our voice to the growing chorus of those who are questioning whether institutions should be investing time and money into MOOCs. We firmly believe that the hype surrounding MOOCs has obscured the real digital revolution occurring in higher education. Students themselves are voicing their concerns about MOOCs. Why…

Four Echo360 Client Institutions Advance to Sweet Sixteen

Four Echo360 Client Institutions Advance to Sweet Sixteen So far, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has certainly lived up to its billing, “March Madness,” featuring some of the most exciting victories and stunning last second upsets we’ve seen in sports history! At Echo360, we were rooting for all of our 22 client institutions that made…

Got Your Brackets Ready?

22 Reasons We’re Hyped for March Madness Here in the US, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament is without a doubt, one of the most exciting events of the year for both diehard and casual sports fans alike. Whether you’re a sports novice who needs a translator to follow sportscaster Dick Vitale’s play-by-play or a Zen…

The Trouble with MOOCs

Did you know that between 5 million to 7 million people worldwide have signed up to take a MOOC? That’s cool. What is even more impressive is that between 5 million to 7 million students are currently enrolled in distance learning / online education programs IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE, IN THE PAST YEAR! If…

MOOCs: Breaking Down The Top Four Concerns of Paying Students

Do you remember the contagious 1989 hit song from Janet Jackson, “What Have You Done for Me Lately”? The catchy tagline is a resounding theme for today’s tuition-paying students when it comes to their institutions’ investments in MOOCs. Herding Cats Two vital words in the MOOC acronym are “massive and open.” When we say massive,…

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