Case Study: Western University increases student enrollment and delivers high-quality online learning with Echo360

Increasing Enrollment and Serving More Students through Live Streaming and Online Learning

Western University needed a way to increase enrollment in popular courses without losing the quality of the classroom experience, especially for anatomy classes that required detailed visuals and audio. Since 2015, the university has used the Echo360 video platform to record lectures in a 195-seat lecture hall and live stream them to students in online sections.

Echo360 enabled Western University to deliver high-definition video, high-fidelity audio, and interactive tools like Q&A, polling, and discussion threads with minimal change for instructors. The result was the ability to serve 300+ students in these courses, and preliminary research suggested that students who attended and participated—online or in person—saw exam scores rise by about 10%, while the online experience remained comparable to face-to-face learning.

Western University

Kem Rogers

Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology