Getting to the Active Part of the Echo360 Video and Active Learning Platform
Active Learning Occasionally, when first considering Echo360’s video and active learning platform, an Instructor will look at a video and say “this isn’t active learning”. In the politest way possible, the response is, “it’s not going to teach for you.” A platform such as Echo360 provides just that, a platform for you, as the Instructor,…
Helping Instructors Get Started with Echo360 – Why It’s the ‘I’ in Instructor That Matters
“Oh, please NO!!” This was my internal response when I was asked to write a blog post on ‘getting started’ with Echo360. Not because I don’t want to help or because I think it’s difficult or complex to start using the cloud-based platform – it’s not. The real reason I have a hard time putting…
How Monash College Transformed Passive Lectures into Lively Discussions
Described as “the tool that enabled a change in student engagement”, staff and students at Monash College in Melbourne, Australia have been reflecting on the role that Echo360 played in their educational transformation. “It is always pedagogy first…” pointed out Dr Kulari Lokuge, Associate Director for eLearning, who played a critical role in leading the…
Video Makes Your LMS Content Better
Echo360 has distinguished itself by turning passive video into active learning via a unique classroom that surrounds your video with learning tools that enable students to take notes, indicate confusion, and engage in peer-to-peer discussion. But video isn’t always the star of the show. What about those times when you want to author rich LMS…
Create, Curate, Educate: Echo360 ANZ’s 12th Annual Conference
If you missed the 12th Annual ANZ Echo360 conference, you will have missed the clear message that change continues to be afoot in the capture world. Every year we gather to celebrate the hard work Echo360 users have put in to implementing the platform across their campuses. We eat, drink and are merry; we hear…
Scaling Video and Lecture Capture Technology University-Wide: A Case Study from Sheffield University
The University of Sheffield prides itself for being a world-class university that provides a unique student learning experience. To continue their commitment to meet the needs of its diverse student body, the University recently expanded the use of Echo360 lecture capture technology campus-wide. With this expansion, by the end of the 2017-18 academic year, every…
EDUCAUSE 2017 Recap – 3 Ways Echo360 is Meeting the Needs of Higher Education
The curtain has fallen on EDUCAUSE 2017 and the research coming out of the conference indicates that faculty and students alike see the positive impact technology has on the teaching and learning experience. The Campus Technology 2017 Technology Survey revealed that more than 80 percent of the faculty members surveyed say that technology has a…
The New Echo360 Supports Advanced, Modern-Day Learning
It was almost two decades ago, around the fall of 2000, that seasoned administrator, faculty member, and classroom technology maven Sherri Restauri, now the Director of Online Learning at Coastal Carolina University, began pushing to integrate video platform technology into the classroom. At the time, Sherri says, the technology was still in its earliest phases….
Echo360’s 12th Annual Users Conference – Don’t have FOMO
To quote the Dalai Lama, “You won’t understand the unabashed power of a community until you are part of one”. Anyone who attended Echo360’s Active Learning conference in Melbourne last year would have experienced one of those communities first hand. From the buzz and happy chatter of people re-connecting as old friends do, to the…
3 Ways Technology Supports Learning for 21st Century Students
Institutions of higher learning must serve a more diverse group of students than ever before. Students today have different experiences, expectations, and needs from those in the past. Many of them are being taught skills for jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago (think data scientist, cloud computing specialist, and drone operator, just to name…