Breathing Life into the Age-Old Lecture: Flipping the Classroom Can Increase Student Engagement
Eight seconds. That’s a person’s average attention span, according to recent research. It should come as no surprise then that today’s digitally-savvy student has a hard time paying attention during a 50-minute lecture. To combat the passive approach to the lecture, one professor at the University of Sheffield uses Echo360 to flip his classes, and…
5 Ways to Make Your Lecture More Interactive and Engaging
This is part two of a two-part blog series on the BETT 2017 exhibition and conference by Echo360 Solutions Engineer, Dr John Couperthwaite. The following ideas are just five of many examples which could be employed to reinvent teaching in lectures. Each are based upon the Echo360 active learning platform which integrates the affordances of…
Research Reveals Student and Instructor Attitudes on Lecture Capture Technology
Few will argue that the profile of students today has changed. From more students being given the opportunity to study internationally to those choosing to return to study mid-career, schools must now meet the demands of an increasingly diverse student population. These students, once considered “non-traditional,” are becoming the new normal. Despite the changing student population, face-to-face instruction is still the…
Engineering Students Get a Head Start with Activity Led Learning
“Tutorial” sessions at Coventry University allow students to apply what they have learned. For more than 5 years, Coventry University in the United Kingdom has pioneered activity led learning –an approach that incorporates hands-on learning and projects to “engage students through motivating challenges.” The approach helps students develop the necessary technical skills to prepare for…
Partner Spotlight: 5 Ways to Make Education More Accessible and Engaging for Students
Today’s Partner Spotlight features Brad Turner, Associate Manager of Instructional Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work focuses on assisting instructors with transforming the “traditional” classroom into a more engaging and active learning and teaching space. The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), where I serve on the instructional innovation team, has created our own…
Faculty use Active Learning to Engage Busy Executives around the Globe
Comprised of senior executives from over 30 different countries, the Trium Executive Global MBA (Trium EMBA) program at the London School of Economics reaches across the globe. As busy executives, the MBA students need flexibility to complete their work, anytime, anyplace. To meet their diverse needs, the Trium EMBA program uses the Echo360 platform to offer…
Giving Students More Time for Hands On Learning at Cooper Medical School
The Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) is a new medical school that opened in 2012. CMSRU takes a unique approach to training physicians. In traditional medical school, students spend the first two years in classroom attending lectures, only spending years three and four in clinical training. But CMSRU students attend only six hours…
Ditching Clickers & Improving Student Engagement & Outcomes
At the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, students spend much of their class time applying their academic reading and theory in clinical, real-world, case-like situations. Critical to Iowa State’s pedagogical model is ensuring that lectures are time well-spent and students are prepared to apply their learning. Student engagement matters, as research tells us. To…
Unitec Institute of Technology Moves to Collaborative Teaching and Learning Practices with Echo360
Unitec Institute of Technology, located in Auckland, New Zealand is one of the largest polytechnic institutions in the country with more than 18,000 students. While Unitec offers undergraduate degree programs, its main focus continues to be on vocational education and training (VET). An innovator in the area of adopting educational technology, Unitec has made a…
Leveraging the Power of Learner Analytics and Collaboration
Our weekly #edtech / #edchat recap takes a look at the near-term future of education technology and the impact learner analytics will play. Here are some of the hot topics that crossed our Twitter feed this week. What will education technology look like over the next 5 years? This article, published on Mindshift takes a…