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We understand that evidence is integral to the work you do as an instructor.
In this webinar, we demonstrate how EchoPoll delivers the learning analytics you need to:
Identify specific learner difficulties
Understand if there is predictive future performance
Understand if there is an increase in learner content retention
Get introduced to our expanded suite of solutions in this live demonstration hosted by product experts.
Presented By:
+ Dr. Linsey Donner, Assistant Professor, College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center
+ Marnie Imhoff, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center
In this webinar, our presenters will discuss the use of Echo360 among other technologies to best fit your class format. Examples will be provided for different course modalities to include online asynchronous, hybrid, and in-person class formats. They will also demonstrate how their use of Echo360 allowed for adoption of active learning strategies, which has shown to increase student engagement, course satisfaction, and performance.
Wednesday, 8th December, 1:00 – 2:00 GMT
The recent EU Web Accessibility Directive and European Accessibility Act have each highlighted concerning gaps in our provision of an inclusive educational experience for all learners. One year on, we will examine the challenges facing institutions and the steps now being made to transform all aspects of teaching provision and learning support.
Chair:
+ Dr Melissa Highton, Director of Learning, Teaching and Web Services and Assistant Principal Online Learning, University of Edinburgh
Presenters:
+ Dr. Emily Nordmann, Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow
+ Sandra Partington, Senior Educational Technologist, Learning Enhancement and Development, City University of London
+ Kerry Pinny, Head of Digital Learning Environment Support, University of Warwick
+ Jess Humphreys, Senior Academic Developer, University of Warwick
David Keene, Chief Strategy Officer, Speechmatics
Wednesday, 10th November, 1:00-2:00 GMT
With many courses seeking to stay online in this academic year and the fragmentation of learner cohorts breaking vital study connections, this webinar will explore how can educators are seeking to create high quality learning experiences, blending teaching resources, feedback and assessment, and developing new links between online and face-to-face activities.
Chair:
+ Prof Simon Lancaster, Professor of Chemistry Education, University of East Anglia
Presenters:
+ Dr Louise Robson, Senior University Teacher, University of Sheffield
+ Dr Ellie Dommett, Deputy Director, Undergraduate Psychology, Kings College London
+ Prof Meret Burke, Chair of Communication and Languages, Wilkes Community College
Wednesday, 13th October, 1:00-2:00 BST
Following a period of enforced online instruction, what lessons can we learn about our teaching practices, student feedback and support, and adoption of different technologies, that can inform a new approach to classroom-based teaching as we return to campus. In this webinar, we will hear how teaching leads from a number of different institutions are seeking to enhance previous approaches and introduce more flexible teaching plans.
Chair:
+ Prof Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, University College London
Presenters:
+ Prof Parama Chaudhury, Professor (Teaching), University College London
+ Dr María Óskarsdóttir, Senior Lecturer, University of Reykjavik
+ Nidia Guadalupe Lopez Flores, PhD Student, University of Reykjavik
+ Dr Keren Bielby-Clarke, Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford
Thursday, 7 October at 9:00 AM AWST (Midday AEDT and 2:00 PM NZDT)
Presented By:
Dr. Bill Baker, Sarah Kirk, and Marcie Connnor
+ Dr Bill Baker, Senior Lecturer in Music and Visual Arts Education at the University of Tasmania, will talk about how his students create video content as part of their studies;
+ Sarah Kirk, Academic Advisor eLearning at Unitec Institute of Technology, will talk about how she uses video to support professional development for teaching staff;
+ Marcie Connor, Coordinator for Animal Studies (Veterinary Nursing) and RSPCA at Box Hill Institute, will talk about how she uses video as learning objects inside the LMS.
Wednesday, 22 September at 9:00 AM AWST (11:00 AM AEST and 1:00 PM NZST)
Presented By:
Callan Rose, Senior Educational Development Advisor, The University of Western Australia
Callum Corkill, Accessibility Technologist, UniAccess, The University of Western Australia
Hayley Hutchison, Manager, UniAccess, The University of Western Australia
Wednesday, 1 September at 9:00 AM AWST (11:00 AM AEST and 1:00 PM NZST)
Presented By:
Holly Hapke, Senior Marketing Lecturer, University of Kentucky
Holly Hapke has a class of 800 students and created a model she calls ‘3 in 1’ that offers students the choice to attend her classes synchronously online or in person as well as asynchronously. She will discuss how she manages engagement for these classes as well as how she uses the Echo360 analytics.
Wednesday, 11 August at 9:00 AM AWST (11:00 AM AEST and 1:00 PM NZST)
Presented By:
+ Mark Smithers, Associate Dean eLearning and Innovation at Collarts/Macleay College,
+ Patrick Stoddart, Senior Manager, Academic Systems & Digital Experience at The University of Melbourne
This webinar will offer two perspectives on making technology choices that support innovation in traditional, hybrid and online learning and teaching.
Original Air Date: Wednesday, 28 July at 9:00 AM AWST (11:00 AM AEST and 1:00 PM NZST)
Presented By:
Meret Burke, Chair of Communications and Language, Wilkes Community College
Meret Burke will discuss how she uses polling for both synchronous and asynchronous formative assessment, and focus on why she uses short, three-minute videos for asynchronous feedback. Click here to read how Meret Burke uses Echo360 to enhance this element in her teaching.
Wednesday, April 21 at 11:00 AM ET | 4:00 PM BST
The author of the Harvard Business Publishing Education article, “Online? In Person? The Power of Letting Students Choose,”
will share why his hybrid teaching approach, known as the Choice Model, is applicable well beyond the pandemic. In this webinar, you will learn:
—how Echo360 elevated the Choice Model from other hybrid approaches;
—student performance increased seven points on a comprehensive final exam in a section using the Choice Model;
—and attendance also increased from 85% in Fall 2019 to 93% in Fall 2020.
Dr. John Drea, Professor of Business, Illinois College
Tuesday, 10 November at 12:00 PM AEDT
In 2019, Echo360 made research grants available to lecturers who wanted to explore the impact of Echo360 with their students. Hear from members of two of those teams during this webinar about what they learned. In this live webinar:
– Professor Mike Kent from Curtin University will share the results of research answering questions about whether or not transcripts were now an expectation for students (based on the availability in their entertainment) and what level of accuracy was acceptable.
– Mr Michael Rampe and Ms Jacinta Carruthers from Macquarie University will discuss results of research on the impact of multi-media assessment on students and lecturers.
Guest Speakers: Mike Kent, Michael Rampe, Jacinta Carruthers
Tuesday, November 17 at 11:00 AM EST | 4:00 PM GMT
The emergency shift to remote instruction in the spring resulted in immediate technology needs for faculty teaching traditional face-to-face courses, which continued into a reimagined fall semester. In this session, Melissa Gleckler, educational technologist and PhD candidate at The University of Toledo, will review how UToledo Online met the massive demand for support and training for users new to Echo360, some of whom were even new to the institutional LMS. This session will also feature Echo360 use cases and testimonials from UToledo faculty, followed by participant discussion and Q&A.
Presented by: Melissa Gleckler, Educational Technologist and PhD Candidate, University of Toledo
Wednesday, November 4 at 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM GST
Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are frequently utilized in face-to-face classrooms; they take very little time to implement, require no grading, and allow instructors to quickly moderate instruction to address learner needs. This webinar will demonstrate how Echo360’s polling features can be easily utilized to implement CATs in online courses, leading to improved formative assessment measures, increased student engagement, and enhanced student metacognition.
Presented By: Meret Burke, Department Chair: Communication and Language & English Instructor in Arts and Sciences Division, Wilkes Community College
Tuesday, October 21, 2020 at 11:00 AM EDT | 4:00 PM GST
COVID-19 has certainly led to a different start to the academic year, with higher education establishments having to take a blended approach to teaching and therefore relying on digital platforms more than ever. In this session, Dr Louise Robson will illustrate the benefits of blending digital technologies to provide engaging and interactive sessions for students. Analytics data and student opinions gathered during the emergency pivot to online teaching will show that embedding an active learning platform into a virtual classroom can emulate in attendance teaching. The session will also provide an opportunity for participants to share their experiences of online teaching.
Presented By: Dr Louise Robson, Senior Academic in Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield
Tuesday, June 30 at 12:00 PM EDT
Holly Hapke, Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky
Thursday, June 11 at 12:00 PM EST
Dr. KhasadYahu ZarBabal, Assistant Professor in Economics & Finance, Medgar Evers College-CUNY
Tuesday, March 31st at 12:00 PM EST
Heather Bliss, PhD. Candidate, University of Mississippi
Thursday, April 16th at 12:00 PM EST
Ivan Dinev Ivanov, Associate Professor—Educator and Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Thursday, May 12th at 12:00 PM EST
Walter Metz, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Tuesday, August 13th at 1:00 PM EST
Now, you’ve created all of these videos, but where do all the recordings go? How do you deliver your lecture content to students? Whether you want to send your students to your Learning Management System course page, your personal course website, or directly to Echo360—we’ve got the answer. See new and innovative ways you can manage, edit, share and assign content to students from the new Echo360 library.
Jason Gildner, Customer Success Manager, Echo360
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 at 1:00 PM EST
Are your students paying attention in class? When you ask the class a question, is there an awkward silence? Do you want immediate feedback on their understanding of concepts? Energize your presentations while engaging students with Echo360 polling activities and get immediate feedback on their comprehension. In this session, you’ll learn how to add polls to your presentations and launch them during or outside of class. We’ll show you how to leverage a discussion feed to drive interaction amongst students so you’ll have them participating in your lecture instead of socializing on Instagram in no time!
John Couperthwaite, Education Consultant, Echo360
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Tuesday, August, 20th, 2019 at 12:00 pm EST
In this session, you will become familiar with the administration interface and the typical administrative workflows needed to prepare for the upcoming semester. We will cover room management and device setup, course and user provisioning techniques, scheduling, and a review of institutional usage and reporting. We will cover a rollup of new release administrative and instructor-based product features added to the platform over the course of the past year and how to incorporate them to enhance existing implementations. This includes recent enhancements such as our new Universal Capture software, Automated Speech Recognition transcriptioning, performance enhancing playback features, a brand-new instructor and student homepage interface, student video embed tools, and more. At the end of the session we will conduct a Q&A session as well, so come prepared with your questions.
Woody Bernardo, Principal Deployment Engineer, Echo360
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Thursday, August 22nd at 1:00 PM EST
Do you know how to leverage student analytics to your advantage by tailoring the learning experience for each of your students? After you have mastered delivery and engaging students with Echo360, you will learn the student perspective and how to configure your Echo360 real-time analytics settings to create reporting based on the way you expect them to participate. Learn how to correlate engagement data with grades in the LMS to track if students are improving. Discover how to identify struggling students who may need remediation as early as the first class.
Jason Gildner, Customer Success Manager, Echo360
Original Air Date: Tuesday, June 11 at 2:00 PM EST
Video is transforming education and Echo360 is the only video platform provider dedicated to higher education. Our smarter approach to video makes it easy and cost effective to scale educational video to all instructors and students without complicated training and support.
If you are just looking to get started or struggling to scale academic video at your institution, don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn why Echo360 is the only video platform you need for all your educational video needs.
Speaker: Richard Caccavale, Senior Director of Product Marketing
Original Air Date: Tuesday, April 9th at 2:00pm GMT
Join a panel of academics from University College London who will be asking whether the time has come for higher education institutions to explore new ways of engaging students in their studies.
Panelists from University College London:
• Prof Andrea Townsend-Nicholson, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
• Prof John Mitchell, Professor of Communications Systems Engineering
• Dr Parama Chaudhury, Principal Teaching Fellow, Economics and founding director at Centre for Teaching and Learning Economics
Education Technology and University Business are delighted to host this panel discussion in partnership with Echo360 and Dr Perry Samson, Head of Teaching Innovation from the University of Michigan.
Original Air Date: Thursday, February 21st 2019 at 2:00pm EDT
In this session, you’ll hear the creative ways an Echo360 administrator has increased adoption and educated users on how to use the platform in the most effective way. She will explain how she used the bell curve to identify instructors that would be likely early adopters. She will also share best practices for student promotion and collaborating with them to drive awareness. Finally, you will see how she was able to set up an accessible training sandbox because practice makes perfect with instructors at McMaster.
Presented by Christa Morrison, Pedagogical Specialist, McMaster University (M.Phil and post-grad Journalism New Media).
Original Air Date: Tuesday, March 26th , 2019 at 12:00pm EDT
Hear how Professor Misra uses Echo360 to capture content in dynamic ways for his online class. He records his document camera, video and applications, such as PowerPoint and Excel, to create in-depth learning videos for his students and establish a connection with them remotely. In this webinar, you’ll see how to share your content within the LMS to give students an organized and efficient way to review. Finally, he will highlight the improvements in student outcomes and how he leverages specific Echo360 Analytics to gauge student participation, performance and efficacy of his content.
Presented by Kaustav Misra, Associate Professor of Economics at Saginaw Valley State University.
Original Air Date: Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 at 12:00pm EDT
In this session, Professor Harfmann will demonstrate how he engages his large, required class through project-based learning. His class requires completing assignments using various technical tools and software applications, so he provides lecture captures as a reference for the required steps necessary to complete assignments. You will see how he enables continued learning and practice after class, and then monitors analytics to see where students are struggling. Finally, he will share how he uses polling to gauge comprehension and effectiveness during class.
Presented by Anton Harfmann, Professor and Director of Architectural Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
Original Air Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 12:00pm EDT
In this session, find out how an Echo360 power user leverages polls to engage students and creates short learning videos to ensure they are engaged before, during, and after class. This is perfect for instructors that want to create opportunities for students to participate. Claire Stuve from the University of Toledo will share tips on incorporating the Q&A feed in Echo360 to drive meaningful discussions and allow students to contribute to the conversation. Lastly, you will see the data and analytics proving her efforts lead to increased retention in her introductory math course, and how it integrates with the Learning Management System.
Dr. Claire Stuve
Original Air Date: Friday, January 11, 2019 at 2:00pm EDT
In this session, you get an overview of new Echo360 analytics and find out how to configure your course settings to create reporting based on the way you expect students to participate. Learn how to correlate engagement data with grades in the LMS to track if students are improving. Discover how to identify struggling students who may need remediation as early as the first class.
Chelsea Jenkins
Original Air Date: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 at 2:00pm EDT
Are your students paying attention in class? When you ask the class a question is there an awkward silence? How do you know what the students don’t know? Do you want immediate feedback on understanding of concepts? Energize your presentations while engaging students with Echo360 polling activities and get immediate feedback on their comprehension. In this session, you’ll learn about the types of polls you can create, how to add them to your existing or new presentations, and how to launch polls during or outside of class. After you have mastered delivery and engaging students with Echo360, we’ll cover the student perspective You’ll have your students participating in your lecture instead of socializing on off Facebook in no time!
What’s New: Learn how peer institutions are using engagement to increase learning and retention rates. You’ll review best practices from the University of Massachusetts – Boston that supports rapid increase in student retention after incorporating engagement tools for low stakes testing.
Chelsea Jenkins
Monday, January 7, 2019 at 2:00pm EDT
In this session, you’ll learn how to create supplemental learning videos using Universal Capture, the necessary steps to record your classes this semester, use the mobile app, and upload video from external content sources.
Then, you’ll discover how to manage, edit and share your videos with others from the brand new Echo360 personal library. Perfect for instructors who are flipping the class, creating assignments, teaching with traditional lectures, or trying to create additional resources to help with student remediation.
What’s New: If you’ve viewed our previous webinar series don’t worry, you can still attend! We’ve prepared all new content to highlight a variety of use cases to make this a meaningful and informative learning experience.
Chelsea Jenkins
December 13, 2018 at 2:00 PM ET
Echo360 is launching a new education series, developed to help administrators, academic support staff and instructors. For our first webinar in our Admin series, Steven Ramos will share his insights from his Echo360 experience to help you use the platform in the most efficient way.
Steven Ramos
Brought to you by Inside Higher Education— for universities like the University of Toledo, University of Massachusetts – Boston and the University of Cincinnati, academic video paired with engagement tools and analytics underpin a new approach to lecture capture—allowing students to go beyond streaming and engage in behaviors that have a positive impact on outcomes.
December 6 at 2:00pm EST
Andrew Perumal, Tina Meagher, Angela Paprocki
Thursday, November 29th, 2018 at 2pm Eastern
It is useful to know what students are doing during class and how their behaviors are related to grades. In this webinar, Dr. Perry Samson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan and Senior Vice President of Teaching Innovations at Echo360, will discuss his latest research and describe how data from Canvas, Echo360 and surveys can be combined and mined to produce evidence-based feedback to students on how their behaviors are related to exam grades.
Student behaviors explored include:
– Attendance
– Q&A
– Formative Assessment
– Reflection
– Attentiveness
– Incoming GPA
Dr. Samson explores what the research shows and how you can implement the use of Echo360 and Canvas data to help your students succeed.
Who Should Attend? Academics and academic support staff that are Canvas and Echo360 users or anyone interested in the connection between student behavior and outcomes.
Dr. Perry Samson
From lecture capture, to screencasting, to video in the LMS, video content has become a core component to improving student learning in higher education. Traditional video platforms, however, are viewed by many as complicated, expensive, and used by only a few of the most tech-savvy instructors on campus. Join us to learn about key trends in educational video and how Echo360 has set a new, smarter standard for video platforms, making it so easy and cost effective to scale video recording and streaming to all instructors and students, without complicated training and support. Topics we will cover include:
– Recording any class or any screen with our new universal application for lecture capture and personal video
recording on Mac, PC or Mobile – with no faculty or student training required
– Making video more accessible with the most accurate, cost-effective automatic transcription available
– Creating more engaging LMS content by integrating Echo360 video directly in your LMS authoring tools
– Creating, editing, and sharing all your video content from a personal library that takes the complexity out of
video management
– Echo360 passive video into active learning with integrated engagement tools and learner analytics
Unlike complicated platforms built for video professionals across all industries, Echo360 is designed specifically for higher education and works the way your instructors and students do. This learning-centric approach yields up to seven times more use than other video software, making it a smarter investment on your part.
If you are struggling to scale academic video at your institution or are interested in seeing the new standard for smarter video in education, it’s time to take a look at Echo360.
Bill Holding, Executive VP Product, Echo360 and Rich Caccavale, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Echo360
What role does video play in the future of teaching and learning? How can video drive more engagement and better student outcomes? The University of Cincinnati has established a team of academic and IT experts to answer these questions as part of an effort to overhaul its campus-wide video strategy and implement next-generation lecture capture to transform classrooms across their 14 colleges.
Join Tina Meagher, senior video strategist and JP Leong, co-chair for the Video Strategies Task Force at the University of Cincinnati, for this complimentary webinar to learn how their team:
Established a video task force of academic and IT experts
Developed a “seven circles” framework for video content creation
Set pedagogical goals for video creation and student engagement
Selected tools, including Echo360, for this critical infrastructure
Plans to use a new category of “behavioral data” to improve student success and measure learning
Who Should Register:
Everyone is welcome to register but technical and academic roles involved with video learning on campus will find it particularly interesting.
Tina Meagher, Senior Video Strategist, University of Cincinnati
JP Leong, Co-Chair Video Strategy Co-Chair, University of Cincinnati
Although the LMS and video capture have been nearly ubiquitous for a decade, faculty use is only now beginning to accelerate, as cloud-based tools create opportunities to better engage students and experiment with new, technology-enabled pedagogical models.
How can next generation lecture capture tools enable faculty to engage students before, during – and after class? Can data streams from LMS and lecture tools combine to provide faculty with newfound insights into student behavior? Will shifts in LMS and video capture adoption create opportunities for entirely new categories of instructional technology to emerge?
Join a conversation with edtech expert Michael Feldstein of e-Literate, and Fred Singer from Echo360, to learn how faculty and institutional leaders are thinking about the convergence of historically disparate technology platforms, where the market is headed, and why it matters.
Live Air Date: Wednesday, April 26 at 2:00 PM ET.
Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360
Phil Hill, Market Analyst at MindWires Consulting, Co-Publisher of e-Literate
Michael Feldstein, Partner at MindWires Consulting, Co-Publisher of e-Literate, and Co-Producer of e-Literate TV
Join Dr. Donna Jones, Senior Pedagogical Consultant with Echo360, to explore how to improve and measure student engagement in courses with low completion rates and use the data for real time intervention. This webinar covers most of the same information as the US version but using Australia and New Zealand reference clients and examples.
Original Air Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2016
Dr. Donna Jones, Senior Pedagogical Consultant, Echo360
Learn how Echo360 and Instructure are working together to integrate data to allow for earlier intervention with your most at-risk students.
Original Air Date: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
Dr. Bradley Fordham, CTO, Echo360
Linda Feng, Senior Product Manager, Student Integration Systems and Analytics, Instructure
Dr. Donna Jones, Senior Pedagogical Consultant at Echo360 walks through how active learning in the classroom helps instructors and institutions at community colleges to improve outcomes with students from all backgrounds.
Original Air Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Donna Jones, Ed.D., Senior Pedagogical Consultant, Echo36
Panelists from Unitec Institute of Technology (New Zealand) and Sydney TAFE discuss the strategic benefits and challenges of integrating active learning technologies into experiential teaching and learning models.
James Oldfield, Learning Advisor, Apple Distinguished Educator, Unitec Institute of Technology
Dr. Karen Haines, Academic Advisor (eLearning), Unitec Institute of Technology
Stephan Ridgway, Manager Learning & Innovation Technology Services Unit, Sydney TAFE
Tome Hore, Head Teachers in Architectural Technology, Sydney TAFE
The Echo360 product team discusses the evolution of the capture platform and two new devices that will support content creation for every learning setting.
Air Date: Thursday, Novemeber 19, 2015
Richard Caccavale, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Echo360
Sandeep Mittal, Senior Product Manager, Echo360
Learn how Dr. Colin Montpetit, Assistant Professor of Science Education at the University of Ottawa, increased class participation to 99%. Hear how he transformed his classroom into an “active learning zone” with the use of a student engagement solution. Get the full story behind Dr. Montpetit’s stunning findings – how student participation rates grew in his classes, grades improved and failure rates decreased.
Air Date: Thursday, March 19, 2015
Dr. Colin Montpetit, Assistant Professor of Science Education, University of Ottawa
If your institution is ready to implement a lecture capture solution or already uses technology to capture content, it’s important to assess if the investment is beneficial. Learn from an expert user in education technology, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), about key metrics for evaluating lecture capture’s impact and ROI – measuring satisfaction, usage, and learning outcomes.
Air Date: February 18, 2015
Mike Kubit, Interim COO, Case Western Reserve University
Tina Oestreich, Assistant Director of Academic Technology and Faculty Support, Case Western Reserve University
Mike Kenney, Co-Lead for Academic Technology and Faculty Support, Case Western Reserve University
Mike Thomas, Classroom & AV Support Leader, Case Western Reserve University
Learn how the Active Learning Platform combines captured content with content management to bridge the gap between educational content creation and learner outcomes. From developing a personal library to receiving real-time feedback on student comprehension and engagement, see how easy it is to create, manage, share, and analyze content within your learning library.
Air Date: November 19, 2014 and November 20, 2014
Greg Golkin, Head of Platform Innovation, Echo360
Panelists from Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology and Northern Sydney Institute of TAFE explain how they augmented learning resources with video for a more efficient, practical learning experience. Discover how the use of active learning technologies in vocational education enables these institutions to deliver new programs while driving new discussions around pedagogy and learning outcomes.
Air Date: October 7, 2014
Sam Hegarty, Learning Technologies Advisor, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
David Bartolo, Facilitator – Innovation, The Northern Sydney Institute
Pauline Farrell, Blended elearning Solutions Executive Manager, Box Hill Institute
Hear from the Greg Golkin, Head of Platform Innovation at Echo360, as he explains the ins and outs of the Active Learning Platform. See how student activities like reviewing captured content, notetaking, Q&A and more translate into powerful learner analytics. He’ll show how instructors use this data to tailor their teaching and improve student outcomes.
Air Date: September 24, 2014
Greg Golkin, Head of Platform Innovation, Echo360
How do you inspire adoption and improve learning outcomes? A panel from the University of Ottawa explains how they transformed their lecture capture experiment into a world-class service reaching more than 15,000 users a term! Discover how they use learner analytics to measure the impact of lecture capture and student engagement technology on learning outcomes.
Air Date: September 23, 2014
Mark Gareau, Director, Multimedia Distribution Service, University of Ottawa
Jovan Green, Acting Director, University of Ottawa
Dr. Colin Montpetit, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa
Dr. Russell Mumper, Vice Dean of the UNC Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy, redesigned his first-year pharmacology course using the flipped classroom model. What he uncovered through a three-year study was not only eye-opening, it led to curriculum redesign throughout the entire program. View the webinar to learn why he embarked upon the study, what the change meant inside and outside of the classroom, and how the results impacted the Pharmacy School.
Air Date: May 8, 2014 and May 13, 2014
Russell J. Mumper, Ph.D. Vice Dean and John A. McNeill Distinguished Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Frustrated by the lack of participation and blank stares in his large lecture classes, Dr. Perry Samson, University of Michigan, decided to leverage the technology that students were already using by creating LectureTools. Using LectureTools to add polls, quizzes and other activities to his presentations, he has seen class participation skyrocket with more than 66% of his students now asking questions.
Air Date: April 17, 2014
Dr. Perry Samson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan
The George Washington University (GW) saw the need to create a patient-centered nursing program that would attract the best students and shape leaders in their specialty. Through a close partnership between academic and technology departments, leaders and instructors at the nursing school designed a state of the art active learning space that provides real-life environments for hands-on student learning. Watch this webinar to discover the groundbreaking ways GW has combined technology with pedagogy to become one of the most innovative nursing programs in the nation.
Air Date: December 12, 2013
P.B. Garrett, Associate Provost and Chief Academic Technology Officer, GW
Patricia Davis, Clinical Skills and Simulation Lab Director, GW School of Nursing
John Arpino, Assistant Director of Engineering Research and Development, Academic Technologies, GW
Lauren Dart, Manager, New Media and Outreach Strategy & Executive Associate, Academic Technologies, GW
Dameon V. Alexander, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, Academic Technologies, GW
Moderator: Dr. Michael Zastrocky, Executive Director, The Leadership Board for CIO’s in Higher Education
Instructors and technologists from UT Martin describe how they leverage lecture capture technology to promote active learning in face-to-face, online and hybrid STEM courses. Learn how they creatively use captured content for peer mentoring, distance courses, student review and more.
Air Date: September 26, 2013
Craig Ingram, Director, Instructional Technology Center, UT Martin
Paula Gale, Professor/Assistant Director, Agriculture, Geosciences, & Natural Resources, UT Martin
Bruce Harrison, IT Administrator IV, Senior Systems Administrator, Video Engineer, UT Martin
Kate Stumpo, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Physics, UT Martin
Peggy Davis, Assistant Professor, Nursing, UT Martin
Bob Bradley, Instructor, Computer Science, UT Martin
David Ray, Instructor, Mathematics and Statistics
Harriette Speigel, Instructional Technologist, UT Martin
Researchers from the University College London discuss the benefits and challenges of creating one of the world’s most sophisticated e-learning environments. Discover how they use lecture recordings to support the teaching and learning process before, during and after class. Learn how a successful blended learning strategy enhances instructor/student interaction by encouraging interactivity and critical thinking.
Air Date: April 25, 2013
Mr Carl Gombrich, Programme Director, Arts and Sciences (BASc), UCL
Steve Rowett, E-Learning Developments Team Leader, UCL
Dr. Clive Young, E-Learning Advisory Team Leader, UCL
Moderator: John Elmes, Editorial Assistant, Times Higher Education
The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine is on a mission to make learning more effective for their students and create a better graduate. Learn how they combine lecture capture with student engagement technologies to condense content-rich lectures into digestible pieces. Gain insights into the successes and challenges of implementing a successful active learning strategy.
Air Date: February 28, 2013
Dr. Robert Malinowski, Director, Center for Academic Technologies, College of Veterinary Medicine Michigan State University
Moderator: Dr. Michael Zastrocky, Executive Director, The Leadership Board for CIO’s in Higher Education
Are your students are really paying attention in class? Or are they distracted, surfing the Web on laptops and mobile devices? University of Michigan professor Dr. Perry Samson, shows you how you can leverage students’ existing technology to increase in-class engagement and interactivity and fuel active learning using LectureTools.
Air Date: December 13, 2012
Dr. Perry Samson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan
Box Hill Institute shares how they use video and blended learning technology to identify learning opportunities and provide individualized learning pathways for each student. Watch this webinar and discover how learner analytics can provide the key to a successful e-learning strategy.
Air Date: October 8, 2012
Pauline Farrell, Executive Manager of Blended eLearning Solutions at Box Hill Institute
Moderator: Maria Spies, Director of Educational Technology and eLearning, Navitas
Vince Kellen, CIO of the University of Kentucky, explores the most up-to-date technology trends such as MOOCs. This webinar provides key insights into successfully navigating the technology landscape and selecting the right solution for your institution.
Air Date: October 4, 2012
Dr. Vince Kellen, Ph.D., CIO, University of Kentucky
Moderator: Dr. Michael Zastrocky, Executive Director, The Leadership Board for CIO’s in Higher Education
Researchers from UT Austin, 2010 grant recipients through the Echo360 Blended Learning Grants Program, share the results of their study on flipping large enrollment classrooms. Learn the four key components to successfully inverting the classroom that were revealed during the course of their research.
Air Date: May 16, 2012
Stephanie B. Corliss, Center for Teaching and Learning, UT Austin
Erin Reilly, Center for Teaching and Learning, UT Austin
Michael Heidenreich, Liberal Art Instructional Technology Services, UT Austin
Do technology enabled classroom really improve student learning outcomes? Find out as Phil Reiter, Executive Director of IT for the University of Illinois at Chicago’s College of Pharmacy; and Mike Lucas, Director of Instructional Technology Services at University of Massachusetts-Lowell join forces to discuss technology-enabled classrooms and whether or not they really live up to the hype in terms of increased grades and student engagement.
Air Date: November 2011
Phil Reiter, Executive Director, Information Technology, University of Illinois – Chicago, College of Pharmacy
Alan Greenberg, Senior Analyst & Partner, Wainhouse Research
Mike Lucas, Director, Instructional Technology, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Moderator: J.D. Solomon, Web Seminar Editor, University Business Magazine