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…
Echo360 Takes the LMS to a New Dimension
Echo360 has made a significant investment in integrating with learning management systems (LMS) meaning that it now works entirely inside your LMS for easy inline content creation and embedding. One university that knows all about this is Brock University, a public research university serving more than 19,000 students in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. While they…
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…
Echo360 Enhances Student Success Through Hybrid Teaching at University of Kentucky
As universities continue to manage against the continuing backdrop of COVID-19, hybrid models are giving both students and instructors the flexibility and choice around how they maintain learning and teaching. Holly Hapke, Senior Marketing Lecturer at the University of Kentucky has developed a 3-in-1 hybrid teaching model; an amalgamation of in-person, live stream and asynchronous…
As Students Return to Campus, Video Learning Helps Mercer University Ensure Academic Continuity and Manage Future Contingencies
University Expands Echo360 Licenses Campus-Wide to All 12 Colleges and Schools While students at Mercer University were completing the spring 2020 academic term remotely using Zoom, plans were already underway to have them return to campus for classroom instruction. To help ensure academic continuity when students returned, Mercer decided to expand the use of Echo360….
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…
Brock University Professor Makes Online Learning Interactive, Engaging, and Personal
This is the second article in a two-part series outlining how Brock University uses Echo360 for online learning and video content management. Formative Assessment Activities Keep Students Participating and Engaged While Learning Online Keeping students focused in large-enrollment lecture classes is challenging during normal times when classes are presented face-to-face. Keeping them engaged during online…
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…