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…
The Show Must Go On: Contingency Planning Made Easy
From blizzards to hurricanes, college campuses have seen it all. These events, either natural or manmade, can shut down your campus and disrupt classes, adding unnecessary pressure on faculty and students to cover more content in less time. Fortunately, with the rise of broadband ubiquity and increased access to mobile technology, canceling class doesn’t have…
Law Students Excel with Interactive Courses and 24/7 Access to Classes
In an increasingly competitive student recruitment environment for law school, George Mason University (GMU) School of Law designed compelling programs to attract, accommodate, and retain students. GMU School of Law requires their Juris Doctor (J.D.), Masters of Law (LL.M) degree and the continuing legal education (CLE) programs to be flexible and interactive to support the large…
How the University of Michigan will engage 2000 statistics students with Echo360 and the HyFlex+ instructional model
Dr. Jackie Miller of the University of Michigan is exercising the innovative HyFlex+ teaching method using Echo360’s active learning and live streaming platform for a statistics course that will engage more than 2,000 undergraduate students when fully deployed in 2016. This team-taught, 200-level course is among the largest courses taught at the university with six…
Echo360 Powers the Modern Classroom Experience – Solutions for Every Classroom, Learning Situation, and Budget
Learning moments can happen anywhere, and capturing those moments can be a challenge, but not with Echo360. From field projects, to small classrooms, to state-of-the-art lecture halls we’ve got it covered. The Echo360 active learning platform captures all your learning moments – on any subject and in any location. Echo360 powers the modern classroom experience….
Students Select Echo360 as #1 Application at Western University
Six hundred institutions around the world use the Echo360 active learning platform to increase student engagement, gain greater insight into learning, and improve outcomes. Today, we feature the University of Western Ontario (Western) where Dr. Kem Rogers, Professor and Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry championed the use of…
Live Streaming and On-Demand Access to Lectures Improves Accessibility and Outcomes
Macquarie University, located in Sydney, Australia is committed to using technology to foster a high-quality teaching and learning environment. To fulfill their promise that guarantees all enrolled students a seat in class, they turned to Echo360. They also have been able to improve access to learning resources for students with disabilities, address the learning needs…
Software vs. Hardware Lecture Capture: Day 1
Echo360 is the perfect choice for classrooms needing HD video or live webcasting. Beatles vs. Stones. Dogs vs. cats. Cronut vs. cupcake. Some choices divide people in decidedly distinctive fan camps. The choice of lecture capture via software or hardware is one of them. That’s why we’re devoting 3 days out of the 30…
Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in Higher Education
Which is better on the college level, classroom-based education or online education? The answer, to many, is actually a mix of both. Blended education replaces a portion of the face-to-face interactions in the classroom with online lecture and activities for the best of both worlds. Does Blended Learning Work? Blended learning is still, in many…