Take Advantage of Interactive Teaching Tools for Outstanding Learning Experiences

Whether you’re teaching at the college or K12 level, or leading government or corporate training, interactive teaching tools are a must for today’s online, hybrid, and blended classrooms. Through interactive learning, students improve their performance and develop a greater level of autonomy. Interactive learning also improves students’ retention of information as it promotes self-directed learning….

Self-Paced Classes: Achieving Equity with an Unequal Timetable

Many of us live in countries who use holidays to celebrate historic or religious events; think Diwali, Thanksgiving, Eid al-Fitr, ANZAC day and the Queen’s birthday. But, what if, like Marcie Connor, Coordinator for Animal Studies and RSPCA at Box Hill Institute, you also have a cohort of students with a scheduled class on that…

4 Tried and True Strategies for Online Teaching

While online teaching did not begin with the pandemic, it has definitely taken off in a whole new way since the spring of 2020. For educators who are new to distance learning, it can be challenging to know which online teaching techniques work best — or even where to start.  Echo360 enables exceptional learning experiences…

The In-Class “Chat Box” – Using An Anonymous Question Platform to Support Students

Hybrid Teaching Offers Opportunities for Increased Student Engagement The move to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic has certainly been challenging for the higher education sector. However, it has also provided an opportunity for us to teach and support students in very different ways. With the transition back into the classroom, it is essential that…

Enhancing the Experience of Language Learning with Echo360

Dr Xinyi Tan, Assistant Professor of Chinese and French, and author of a chapter in the 2021 book, Designing Courses with Digital Technologies, is a great advocate of using technology to support student success. Using the Echo360 video learning platform, Dr Tan has created a flipped learning environment that helps her ensure students grasp the…

Watch Party for Education

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“Online live lecture watch parties are amazing because it feels a lot more engaging than just having to watch the already recorded lecture alone.” (Student)  In 2020, Senior Psychology Lecturer, Emily Nordmann and her colleagues were trying to  address a new challenge; supporting first and second year students who had opted for a traditional on-campus…

How Echo360 Became an Essential Teaching and Learning Tool at Northampton Community College

Emphasis on Faculty Training and Development Helps to Drive Adoption of Academic Video in More Than 500 Courses When Beth Ritter-Guth became Associate Dean for Online Learning & Educational Technology at Northampton Community College in 2019, one of her first tasks was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the educational technology used on campus. She focused…

EdTech Leaders Share the Benefits of Replacing Kaltura with Echo360 as Their Campus Video Platform

Lowering costs, reducing complexity, and providing better user experiences are the primary benefits of standardizing on Echo360 Two EdTech leaders recently shared reasons why their institutions selected Echo360 over Kaltura when consolidating their campus video applications. They described how, with Echo360, they can effectively manage all their video content on campus while providing their faculty…

ICYMI: Echo360 User Community Conference Day One Workshop Focuses on How to Deliver Engaging Online and Hybrid Learning Experiences

Much More Than Lecture Capture: Pre-Conference Workshop Attendees Learn How Echo360 Provides the Tools They Need to Deliver Synchronous/Asynchronous Online and Hybrid Learning Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This article is the first in a series of three articles recapping the key presentations from each day. We’ve also included links…