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 Two Focuses on How Increasing Engagement Leads to Greater Student Success
Users Share Experiences Using Echo360 to Boost Student Engagement, Promote Greater Participation and Inclusivity, and Improve Student Outcomes Did you miss the Echo360 User Community Conference? No worries! This is the second in a series of three articles recapping presentations from each day. Presenters during day two of the Echo360 User Community Conference tackled the…
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…
How One Instructor Uses Echo360 to Engage and Assess Students
Click here to see the feedback video. I began using Echo360 several years ago as a teaching tool in my online courses. Initially, I used Echo360 to record short videos for my classes to help create a sense of social presence, provide personalized tutorials, and connect course concepts from one week to the next. At…
Echo360 Academic Champion Uncovers the Importance of Video to Student Vets at The University of Edinburgh
Dr. Jill McKay had a natural affinity with animals from a young age. She has always been surrounded by a variety of different creatures, which influenced her career choices and brought her to her current role as senior lecturer of veterinary science education at The University of Edinburgh. Having contributed to many research papers on…
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….
As the Australian Catholic University’s Use of Video Evolves, Echo360 is With Them Every Step of the Way
When I started working on the iLecture project at The University of Western Australia in 2003, the team had developed a world-leading lecture recording solution that had been garnering significant attention. Within a few years, 30% of Australian universities had implemented iLecture and, by 2015, that number had grown to over 70%. Across Australia and…
Webinar Recap: Beyond COVID – Providing Student Choice in Course Delivery with Hybrid Teaching
The “Choice Model” Addresses Student Expectations for More Hybrid and Online Learning Options Post-Pandemic Student experiences during the pandemic have likely reset their expectations for how teaching should be delivered. Colleges and universities plan to fully open campuses and resume classroom instruction this fall, but many students have said they want more choices for how…
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,…