Funding Helps College Improve Engagement in Gateway Courses
Instructors at Metropolitan Community College – Kansas City (MCCKC) are enthusiastic. Without having to change the way they teach or implement a complex system, they are helping more students succeed in gateway courses such as biology, chemistry, composition & reading, U.S. history, and mathematics. “Three Title III grants from the U.S. Department of Education enabled…
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…
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…
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…
Echo360 Learner Analytics Turn Insight into Action at Indian River State College
Indian River State College (IRSC), located in Fort Pierce, FL, is a 2015 top-ten finalist for the prestigious Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, America’s most respected and selective recognition of sustained high achievement and performance in state and community colleges. Among the factors in their selection was their consistently outstanding results in helping students…
When Students Engage, Grades Improve – Active Learning at the University of Texas, Arlington
Professor Stephanie Cole, Ph.D., Associate Professor, History at the University of Texas at Arlington considers herself to be an early adopter of technology in the classroom. She’s a longtime user of Echo360’s lecture capture technology. This September, she began teaching classes using our active learning platform, a solution that combines real-time learner analytics, student engagement…
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…
Reimagining the Classroom – Anywhere, Anytime Teaching and Learning
If one word could capture the common thread that ran through the presentations at our Los Angeles Active Learning Conference it would be “innovation.” In addition to presentations from Echo360 product staff about the future direction of our products, the conference featured several guest speakers who are using the Active Learning Platform, lecture capture, and…
The Value of Active Learning – Instructor Perspectives
Dr. Perry Samson and his “Extreme Weather” students at the University of Michigan One of our most popular speakers is Dr. Perry Samson, Head of Teaching Innovation, Echo360. Dr. Samson regularly speaks and writes on the topic of innovation in the classroom. In a recent article in Campus Technology, he wrote about the importance of…
Transforming the Modern Lecture into an Active Learning Experience
Students at UNC’s Eshelman School of Pharmacy use classroom time for interactive engagement Today, an article “Liberal Arts Colleges Must Jettison Antiquated Lectures to Stay Relevant,” that I co-wrote with John T. Casteen III, PhD, the former president of the University of Virginia was published in the Hechinger Report. In it, we discuss the role…