Dive Brief:
- A partnership between community college reform network Achieving the Dream and teaching and learning platform Echo360 will offer insights into specific factors that contribute to positive student outcomes.
- According to eCampus News, the joint project will identify 10 Achieving the Dream network colleges to serve as laboratories to study the correlation between elements of course engagement and student outcomes.
- Echo360 technology tracks student participation within its platform during and after class to provide data that can be analyzed for patterns that lead to student success.
Dive Insight:
Echo360 is one of several platforms that offer comprehensive student engagement tools and tracking. Top Hat fulfills a similar role, allowing students to use their own devices and tap into a shared network for class participation. Already, institutions can track a student’s engagement with the learning management system. Additional tools give more information about student activities during lecture, as well as their level of communication with other students and instructors. All of this data can be harnessed to develop systems that alert students and counselors when performance gets off-track while there’s still time to fix it.