Echo360’s Interactive Media Turns Passive Video into Active Learning
“What we know about cognitive science is that students learn when they do something with information. There’s nothing more passive than just sitting and watching a video. We need to ask our students to do something with information if we truly want them to learn it and retain it and to process it” —Meret Burke,…
Inside Higher Ed Webinar Recap. Returning to the Classroom: Is Hybrid Teaching Here to Stay?
Campus Leaders Share Insights on the Technology and Teaching Practices Used to Successfully Deliver Emergency Remote Learning and How Hybrid Learning Helped Students Return to Campus A recent webinar hosted by Inside Higher Ed focused on the topic of hybrid learning and featured two Echo360 customers. A panel of campus leaders from Saginaw Valley State…
Echo360 Helps Harding University Deliver Emergency Remote Learning and then Transition to Back to the Classroom
Flexibility and Ease-of-Use of Video Platform During Emergency Remote Learning Leads to Installation of Echo360 in 170+ Learning Spaces as Students Return to Campus Like many institutions around the world, the videoconferencing platform Zoom was one of the tools the faculty and staff at Harding University used to deliver synchronous remote learning when they closed…
What’s NEXT for Higher Education?
New York Times Best Selling Author, Jeff Selingo, Interviews Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360 on the Future of Higher Education After the Pandemic Following his publication of the report, The Hybrid Campus, Jeff Selingo hosted Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360, on his streaming program, NEXT on LinkedIn Live. During the program, they discuss lessons learned…
Lessons Learned During Emergency Remote Learning Enhance Classroom Instruction when Students Return to Campus
Echo360 Live-Streaming and Student Response Tools Help University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine Keep Students Engaged Even When They are Dispersed and Socially Distanced Students had already left for Spring break when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine to shut down its campus. College administrators, staff, and faculty…
UCL Lecturer Parama Chaudhury Reveals 5 Elements of Educating During Lockdown That Will Endure in Her Teaching Post-COVID
Professor Parama Chaudhury was destined to teach. Both her parents and brother are professors and after doing some teaching while studying for her PhD, she loved it and has never looked back. Now Professor (Teaching) and Director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics (CTaLE) at University College London, Parama has used Echo360 for…
“Chasing Interesting, Disruptive Movements” – Raise the Line Podcast Features Echo360 CEO Fred Singer
Echo360 CEO Fred Singer was the featured guest on a recent episode of the Raise the Line podcast series, sponsored by Osmosis.org, a leading health education learning platform. In a wide-ranging interview with Osmosis co-founder, Shiv Gaglani, Singer talked about what makes Echo360 different, describing it as a “learning company” not just an education technology…
Video Technology Helps Schreiner University Reimagine Classroom Instruction
Echo360 Video Platform Plays Essential Role as Students Return to Campus for Focused 8-Week Terms Schreiner University is a private Presbyterian university with an enrollment of about 1,300 students located in Kerrville, Texas. The university describes itself as a “place of opportunity” offering a personalized, integrated, and holistic educational experience. Small classes, face-to-face instruction, and…
Webinar Recap: Mobilizing Remote Learning in Traditional Teaching
Echo360 Helps University of Toledo Expand Online and Hybrid Learning In the third and final webinar of our hybrid and online learning series in 2020, a panel of experts from the University of Toledo shared their experiences on how the university is using Echo360 and other technology to expand online and hybrid learning in response…
Using Embedded Polling to Assess Student Knowledge and Skills in Online and Hybrid Courses
Formative Assessments Create Opportunities to Engage Students and Assess Course-Related Knowledge and Skills As universities move more to teaching online, how can instructors create greater opportunities for student engagement? What is the role of formative assessment in online learning and how can instructors discover what, how much, and how well their students are learning? These…