Active Learning Blog

 Dr. Perry Samson and his "Extreme Weather" students at the University of Michigan

Successfully implementing technology in higher education does not happen by accident. It requires hard work from everyone involved in the project – from the technology provider, to campus IT, faculty, administrators and staff – every stakeholder has a role and a vested interest in the success of the project.

Our Active Learning Conference series ramps up this autumn with 2 events. We kick off the autumn with our first event in Los Angeles on September 21-22. Then we travel back to the East with a conference in Boston on October 6-7.

We’ve come a long way since Echo360 released its’ first lecture capture solution in 2006. Facebook and social media was in its’ infancy. The iPhone was still a year away from being released. Fast forward to 2015 and we now see an invasion of mobile devices and applications. Does your classroom look like the one in the photo above? Students today are “digital natives” and they’re bringing all these new technologies to their learning. Universities also have a new emphasis on collecting data to gain greater visibility, and leveraging their content for new hybrid and online courses offeried from the cloud. A lot has changed in 10 years.