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Echo360's 2025 e³ Tech Grants Program

On July 1, 2025, Echo360, a frontrunner in AI-driven educational technology, publicly announced the grant recipients of its 2025 e³ Tech Grants Program. This initiative has allocated over $100,000 in combined financial and technological assistance aimed at supporting educators and researchers across the globe. In its fifth consecutive year, the e³ Tech Grants Program highlights Echo360's unwavering commitment to enhancing transformative learning through purposeful investment and practical resources.

Responding to Financial Challenges in Education

As educational institutions grapple with an array of financial pressures, including static or diminishing budgets and fluctuating enrollment rates, every dollar counts. Murad Velani, the President and CEO of Echo360, emphasized the importance of such support: "As educational institutions face mounting financial stress, every dollar counts. Our 2025 grant awards demonstrate how Echo360 stands shoulder to shoulder with educators, equipping them not only with needed funding, but with technologies and training that amplify instructional innovation around the world."

This grant program strives to level the playing field, aiming to ensure that every educator and learner has access to the tools they need to succeed.

The Impact and Structure of the e³ Tech Grants

Since its inception in 2021, the Echo360 e³ Tech Grants have played a pivotal role in advancing equity in educational technology by providing two key types of grants:

• - Impact Grants: These grants offer financial assistance for empirical teaching research as well as proof-of-concept projects.
• - Innovation Grants: Focused on technology access, these grants allow for usage of Echo360’s AI-enriched platform, including GoReact, a leading tool for AI-based video assessment.

By leveraging these innovations, Echo360 aims to empower educators with the resources necessary to enhance learning experiences not only in schools and universities but also in corporate training environments across the globe.

The Current Educational Landscape

As multiple funding challenges continue to plague educational institutions worldwide, a report from Fitch Ratings in 2025 noted that many U.S. colleges and universities are grappling with worsening financial conditions. This observation was echoed in the U.K., where the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) discovered that approximately one-third of schools are operating at a deficit. Furthermore, Australia’s Universities Accord has flagged financial sustainability as a critical sector-wide issue.

Julie Bayliss, a lecturer at Curtin School of Allied Health and a recipient of the 2025 grant, shared how the funding would transform student engagement: "The Echo360 grant is enabling us to create high-quality, multi-angle videos that we anticipate will transform how physiotherapy students engage with complex manual techniques. We believe that this technology will give students the flexibility to learn at their own pace while ensuring equitable access to expert demonstrations; something we couldn't have achieved without this support."

Highlighting the 2025 e³ Tech Grant Recipients

The 2025 e³ Tech Grants reached across three diverse regions to support various educational institutions:

APAC Region:

• - Murdoch University
• - RMIT University
• - La Trobe University
• - University of Queensland
• - Queensland University of Technology
• - Curtin University
• - Australian Catholic University
• - Australian National University
• - Swinburne University of Technology
• - Unitec
• - Box Hill Institute

EMEA Region:

• - St. George's University of London
• - Queen Mary University
• - University of Nottingham

North America:

• - Allen University
• - Gallaudet University
• - Loyola Marymount University
• - Colorado State University
• - Schreiner University
• - University of Houston–Clear Lake
• - Saint Michael's College
• - Northampton Community College
• - Rowan School of Osteopathic Medicine
• - Capital University
• - Wilkes Community College
• - University of Nebraska Medical Center
• - Virginia Commonwealth University School of Nursing
• - Forsyth Technical Community College

For more detailed information regarding the grant specifics and application procedures, interested parties are encouraged to visit Echo360's official grants page.

About Echo360

Echo360 stands as a global leader in educational technology, dedicated to facilitating transformative learning experiences for both educational and corporate environments through its Echosystem™, the unique enterprise Learning Transformation Platform™ (LTP™). With a clientele exceeding 2,000 institutions and over 5 million learners, instructors, and frontline workers worldwide, Echo360 integrates several innovative solutions, including content creation, video management, engagement, and assessment tools—now augmented by the AI-powered capabilities of GoReact.

Conclusion

Through the e³ Tech Grants Program, Echo360 reaffirms its pledge to equity, engagement, and evidence-based learning, as it continues to champion innovative educational practices worldwide.