--- title: 5 Ways to Make Education More Accessible and Engaging description: How UMass Amherst uses Echo360 to extend the learning experience during and beyond class time, improve teaching, and make classes more accessible. image: https://info.echo360.com/hubfs/UMass_Amherst_Student.png --- [Skip to content](https://info.echo360.com/partner-spotlight-5-ways-to-make-education-more-accessible-and-engaging-for-students#main-content) # Echo360 - Uses - [ Higher Education ](https://echo360.com/uses/) - [ Continuing Medical Education ](https://echo360.com/continuing-education/) - Platform - [ Video ](https://echo360.com/platform/enterprise-video/) - [ Engagement ](https://echo360.com/platform/student-engagement) - [ Analytics ](https://echo360.com/platform/analytics) - [Stories ](https://echo360.com/stories) - Connect - [ Blog ](https://echo360.com/blog) - [ News ](https://echo360.com/connect/news) - [ Events ](https://echo360.com/connect/events) - [ Support ](https://echo360.com/customer-portal-login/) - [ Contact ](https://echo360.com/connect/contact) - [Login ](https://echo360.org/login?afterLoginUrl=%2Fhome) - [Documentation ](https://absolut.kohorta.co/documentation) # 5 Ways to Make Education More Accessible and Engaging by [Brad Turner](https://info.echo360.com/author/brad-turner) on September 23, 2016 [Lecture Capture](https://info.echo360.com/topic/lecture-capture) [Classroom Engagement](https://info.echo360.com/topic/classroom-engagement) [Webcasting & Live Streaming](https://info.echo360.com/topic/webcasting-live-streaming)   *![UMass_Amherst_Student.png](https://info.echo360.com/hs-fs/hubfs/UMass_Amherst_Student.png?width=484&height=319&name=UMass_Amherst_Student.png)* *Today's Partner Spotlight features Brad Turner, Associate Manager of Instructional Innovation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His work focuses on assisting instructors with transforming the "traditional" classroom into a more engaging and active learning and teaching space.* The [University of Massachusetts Amherst](http://www.umass.edu/) (UMass Amherst), where I serve on the instructional innovation team, has created our own “learning ecosystem”—a flexible environment that supports students of all backgrounds – with active learning at its core, supported by Echo360 technology. We have an extraordinarily creative and resourceful faculty at UMass Amherst, who are using the Echo360 platform to transition from simply capturing the lecture to capturing learning. Technology is supporting our faculty in extending the learning experience during and beyond class time, improving their own teaching, and making classes more accessible. Here are five ways that Echo360 is supporting our learning ecosystem, and ensuring that we make education accessible and engaging to all our students: Since we began full implementation of Echo360, we’ve had the system installed in 102 classrooms, with the goal of reaching at least 113 by Spring 2017. Currently, we have more than 700 instructors in our Echo360 system, almost 500 courses with more than 12,000 automatically scheduled recordings using Echo360 and over 11,000 students in the system. As we move forward with the implementation, we plan to take advantage of the built-in classroom response and student engagement features of the system. As the flagship of the university system in Massachusetts, we’re always working to make sure our students have access to the highest quality instruction that meets their needs, and, with a system like Echo360,there are many opportunities to improve both learning and instruction. 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