The coming year in higher education will be filled with uncertainty, but success will depend on your institution’s capacity to effectively deliver hybrid and online instruction.
Video conferencing tools like Zoom and WebEx connect faculty and students in real time but create privacy and accessibility risks without promoting true student engagement. Your Learning Management System (LMS) manages course materials and administration, but doesn’t directly impact teaching and learning as it happens—either live or on-demand. Only Echo360’s active, video learning platform, integrated with video conferencing and the LMS, delivers the world-class blended educational experience required to strengthen your brand and academic reputation during this challenging period.
Fill the Online Teaching and Engagement Gaps
Your LMS is great for managing course materials and your video conferencing system enables real-time communication for group work or online office hours, but neither platform is designed to offer a fully online or hybrid teaching experience. Echo360 fills these critical pedagogical gaps by enabling
instructors to:
- Deliver active teaching and learning in all modalities
- Engage learners with instructors, content, and peers
- Gain insight into student performance via assessment and analytics
Enhance the Value of Your LMS
The LMS is your gateway into hybrid and online learning, but it doesn’t play an active role in the live and/or online teaching and learning process between teachers and students. Adding value and scope to your LMS, Echo360:
- Makes video instruction easy and accessible
- Increases online learning interactivity
- Simplifies the transition between online and classroom learning
Make Video Conferencing Safer, More Accessible, and More Affordable
Video conferencing was invaluable for emergency remote teaching but presents serious privacy risks and is prohibitively expensive when storing large volumes of recordings. Echo360 works with your video conferencing platform to automatically import recordings where they can be affordably stored, edited, transcribed and accessibly viewed by all authorized users. Coupled with video conferencing, Echo360:
- Protects privacy and prevents FERPA violations
- Saves money on storage costs for recording
- Transcribes video conference recording to improve accessibility
Learn How You Can Support Your Academic Continuity Plan with Best Practices on Hybrid and Online Instruction:
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“Echo360 helps me promote a more active style of learning for my face-to-face, hybrid, and flipped classes. I include student polls and questions in my presentations. It helps students learn the subject matter.”
