Education Webinar Series June 2020

Welcome Back, Friend!

Echo360 is dedicated to supporting you and your campus community during this difficult time. The Education Webinar Series is a part of our continued effort to support you and your campus community during this difficult time. A few of our Echo360 power users have kindly offered to help show you how they're using Echo360 for online learning, flipped learning, and much more.

Session 5: The Choice of Teaching Modality After COVID-19

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Tuesday, June 30th at 12:00 PM EDT

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Who Should Attend: Instructors, Instructor Assistants and Instructional Support Staff

Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Holly Hapke

The focus of this educational webinar is to understand the effect of different teaching modalities on student learning outcomes. We describe the multi-modal delivery options for students in a principles of marketing course at the University of Kentucky. We found that student satisfaction and performance increase in flexible learning environments. Over the years, Holly has taught online, hybrid, and in-person mega classes using Echo360, and has grown to recognize and enjoy the uniqueness about each modality. She understands the struggles, joys, misconceptions, and truths about teaching these courses.

Session 4: Getting Back to Regular—Use of Echo360 for Online Teaching in the New Normal

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Thursday, June 11th at 12:00 PM EDT

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Who Should Attend: Instructors, Instructor Assistants and Instructional Support Staff

Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Dr. KhasadYahu ZarBabal

In this webinar, Academic Champion, Dr. Z, will share how his typical Echo360 habits—established before the new normal—have allowed for a smooth transition to fully online teaching. Like everyone, students are looking for areas of normalcy in life; being able to continue pre-established rhythms and educational progress is helpful both for academic learning and personal centeredness. In 2016, he co-developed an online degree under the leadership of his department chair. The transition to fully online teaching after COVID-19 has allowed him to reap numerous benefits, which will be discussed, as we all try to make distance learning as effective as possible.


Session 3: How to Use Echo360 to Teach Remotely During COVID-19 

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Tuesday, May 12th at 12:00 PM EDT

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Who Should Attend: Instructors, Instructor Assistants and Instructional Support Staff

Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Dr. Walter Metz

Walter will demonstrate how he was able to successfully transition his Film and Television Studies classes from face-to-face to online teaching within days by using Echo360. He will also discuss best practices of using Echo360 when transitioning to remote teaching during COVID-19, such as:
  • How to set up and design your course by incorporating Echo360
  • How to use the student engagement tools
  • How to add polling questions and activities to slides, such as multiple choice, short answer, image quiz, ordered lists, and more
  • How to use analytics to evaluate student performance and engagement







Session 1: Effective Social Learning Environments for Large Online Courses

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Tuesday, March 31st at 12:00 PM EDT

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Who Should Attend: Instructors, Instructor Assistants and Instructional Support Staff

Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Heather Bliss

Social learning environments are keys to successful learning for many students, however social environments in online courses are more difficult to manage. Many attempts at discussions fall flat or do not fully take the place of social learning. In this study, online student users in a large upper level course are encouraged and required to maintain social relationships and interaction for their grades. This study will employ the Social Contexts and Learning Environments (SCALE) scale which has been adapted to online sets of groups to measure the student's perception of social learning and connectedness to peers and their instructor. This study also includes the use of acquisition grading and assessment grading. The primary purpose of this webinar is to showcase the course design and student interaction.



Session 2: Improving Student Engagement in Introductory Courses—Challenges and Opportunities in Times of COVID-19

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: Thursday, April 16th at 12:00 PM EDT

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Who Should Attend: Instructors, Instructor Assistants and Instructional Support Staff

Length: 1 hour

Presenter: Dr. Ivan Ivanov

The Coronavirus has spurred many changes within higher education. The rapid transition to remote instruction due to the pandemic only compounds the challenges already present with large introductory classes. Learn how Dr. Ivanov, from the University of Cincinnati, is overcoming these challenges by using the Echo360 student engagement tools to significantly improve drop, fail, and withdraw (DFW) rate and student performance on exams. This webinar will demonstrate best practices on using Echo360 when transitioning from face-to-face to remote instruction, such as creating workflows and utilizing analytics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Meet Your Presenters:

 

Holly HapkeHolly Hapke, Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky
Holly is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at the Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky. She teaches hundreds of students in the principles of marketing course each semester. Prior to joining the faculty in 2007, Holly taught at Northwood University – Toyota Program Center (Georgetown, Kentucky), Georgetown College (Georgetown, Kentucky), Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), and Howard Payne University (Brownwood, Texas). Holly received her MBA from Tarleton State University, part of Texas A&M University System in Management and Marketing. In addition to teaching, she is the faculty advisor for the American Marketing Association collegiate chapter at UK, which offers many benefits, from career resources, platforms for professional development, leadership development and many marketing activities. She has directed study aboard programs in Brazil, Germany and Australia. She is a proud mother of a nine year old boy, Aiden. 




DR_Z.png copyDr. KhasadYahu ZarBabal, Assistant Professor in Economics & Finance, Medgar Evers College-CUNY
Echo360 Academic Champion, Dr. Z, studies Behavioral Finance and Real Estate Capital Markets. Recently Dr. Z has published in the Journal of Economics and Finance on the relationship between investor sentiment and personal consumption expenditures. He completed his B.A. in Economics from Stanford, and earned his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California-Irvine. Prior to academia, Dr. ZarBabal worked in the Listed Derivatives group at Goldman Sachs. In addition to teaching and researching Finance, Dr. Z enjoys studying ancient economic legal systems.




metz photo-4Dr. Walter Metz, Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University
Walter Metz is a Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University. He holds a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa, and two S.B. degrees, in Materials Science and the Humanities, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of three books: Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema (2004), Bewitched (2007), and Gilligan’s Island (2012). His research centers on the ekphrastic relationships between film, television, novels, short stories, and theatre. He runs a website devoted to re-inventing film criticism. 



Heather_Bliss
Heather Bliss, PhD. Candidate, University of Mississippi 
Heather Bliss is a PhD Candidate in the Experimental Psychology Program at the University of Mississippi. Her main research interests are in the field of applied cognitive psychology, memory, and instructional technologies.



Ivan

Ivan Dinev Ivanov, Associate Professor—Educator and Department of Political Science, University of Cincinnati
Ivan Dinev Ivanov teaches at the University of Cincinnati. His primary areas of teaching and research interests are international relations with focus on international security, inter-organizational cooperation, European and NATO politics. His book “Transforming NATO: New Allies, Missions, and Capabilities” was published by Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield, 2011 paperback 2013; Chinese edition 2014). He has also published articles and chapters dealing with European security, NATO politics, inter-organizational cooperation and interactive simulations. His most recent article “The Use of Interactive Student Response Software in an Introductory International Relations Course” was published by the Journal of Political Science Education (December 2019) and can be accessed here.