Flipping Your Class for Increased Student Success

1. Flipping Your Class for Increased Student Success Barbara Wilkins and Jeff Jennings Educational Technology Missouri S&T

2. The Flipped Class is: • A way to INCREASE student-instructor interaction • A way to INCREASE student-student interaction • A class where students are ACTIVELY ENGAGED in learning • A class where students take responsibility for learning (student centered learning)

3. The Flipped Class is NOT: • Just a bunch of videos for students to watch • An online course • Students spending the class time staring at the computer screen • Students working in isolation • Teacher centered learning

4. Were graduate classes the original flips? Consider graduate seminars in the humanities…

5. http://fln.schoolwires.net/Page/1

6. Defining Flipped Learning • Flexible Environment • Learning Culture • Intentional Content • Professional Educators

7. Flexible Environment • May include video lessons streamed on the internet or downloadable to a device • Watch as many times as needed • Convenient • Bite-sized chunks • Active classrooms • Flexible due dates • Meaningful assessment

8. Learning Culture • Student-centered approach • Greater depth • Richer learning Students become the center of learning rather than the product of teaching

9. Intentional Content • Careful evaluation of direct instruction • Peer instruction • Problem-based learning

10. Professional Educators • Flipped learning is consuming • Appropriate feedback for students • Continuous assessment A flipped classroom may be controlled chaos, and requires a true professional to manage appropriately!

11. Effective Flips Require careful preparation

12. Key Elements • Provide an opportunity for exposure prior to class (or at the very beginning) • Provide an incentive for student to prepare for class • Provide a mechanism to assess student understanding • Provide in-class activities that focus on higher level cognitive activities (DOK) • Have parental support (K-12 setting)

13. Exposure

14. One Flipped Classroom Model http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/the-flipped-classroom-model-a-full-picture/

15. Using Video • Informal • Usually un-edited • Limited ADA compliance • Easy and fast to make • Products • Computer • Jing • ScreenCastO-Matic • Tablet Device • Explain Everything – Outputs to Quicktime, editable • Doceri – Outputs to MP4, editable (iPad) • Educreations – hosted by Educreations (iPad)

16. Using Video • Formal • Often edited and polished • May be Closed-Captioned • Products • Camtasia Studio • Adobe Captivate • Other Screen Recorders

17. Other methods • Podcast • Guided readings • Guided online exploration • Audio Lecture • Online Chat

18. Questions?

19. Resources • http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf • http://ctl.utexas.edu/teaching/flipping_a_class/what_is_flipped • http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/teaching-activities/flipping-the-classroom/ • http://www.flippedlearning.org • http://fln.schoolwires.net • http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/are-you-ready-to-flip-691.php • http://www.emergingedtech.com/2011/09/7-stories-from-educators-about-teaching-in-the-flipped-classroom/ • http://www.flippedclassroom.com/mastery.php • http://flipped-learning.com/ • Flip your Classroom by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams