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…
Equity, Evidence, and Engagement: Our Formula for Engaged Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust instructors in the corporate and academic worlds into a new normal where nothing seems normal. In this article, I’ll explain how concretely defining an effective learning engagement model can bring stability to instructors and learners alike. With expansive growth in education technology over the past several decades, online learning was…
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…
In-Person, Online, or Hybrid: Small Universities Tap Into the Power of Video Learning to Deliver Instruction in Multiple Ways
Campus-Wide Deployment of Echo360 Helps Brewton-Parker College Support Student Athletes and Older Learners While Improving the Residential Learning Experience Over the course of just a few weeks during the fall of 2020, Brewton-Parker College completed a campus-wide installation of the Echo360 video platform. In addition to conducting face-to-face classes on campus, now the college can…
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…
Academic Video at A.T. Still University: Supporting the Mission to Train Healthcare Professionals with a Learner-Centered Focus
University Wide Echo360 Deployment Delivers Video-Based Learning on Multiple Campuses and Reaches a Global Student Community A.T. Still University (ATSU) began as the world’s first osteopathic medical school and has grown into a leading graduate health sciences University with online and residential programs across campuses in Kirksville, Missouri, and Mesa, Arizona, as well as…
ICYMI: Final Day of Echo360 User Community Conference Focuses on How Echo360 Supports Higher Education’s “Hybrid Future”
Users Share How Echo360 Provides Critical Tools to Help Meet the Post-COVID Demands for Online and Hybrid Learning Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This is the third in a series of three articles recapping presentations from each day. The final day of our user community conference featured users whose experience…
Watch Party for Education
“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…