Flipping the Classroom
Another thing we’ve been exploring this summer is the idea of “Flipping the Classroom”. The basic idea is taking “lecture” content and providing it to students so they can go through it before class time. Then you do activities during normal class time (discussion, problem sets, collaborative writing, etc…) so students can work with each other and get more personalized feedback from faculty and other students. This idea represents the convergence of many of the technologies that we have been exploring such as lecture capture, podcasting, screencasting, and Khan Academy along with pedagogical concepts such as active learning, collaborative learning, and student engagement.
This is similar to what we are doing with the new eEducation Council format: information ahead of time and then using meeting time for a deeper discussion.
Gary found an Infographic, which does a good job of illustrating a K-12 example of a flipped course: http://knewton.marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/images/infographics/flipped-classroom.jpg
An ETS Hot Team completed an investigation of this idea and produced the following white paper:
Bart Pursel 2:36 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The folks that I’m working with on this as part of the lecture capture working group are trying to flip small portions of their course. We spent some time looking at the course content for the 16-week format, then identified a week or two that would make sense to flip. This seems to be a nice method to both build adoption and allow people to just tip a toe in the water to see how they feel about it. So far the faculty member is really liking it and already discussing ‘flipping’ more of his sessions next semester.
ryt1 2:47 pm on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Are you collecting any feedback from students or the instructor? It might be interesting to see if there are common questions or research interests across the folks who are doing these sorts of things Bart. I know we have done several things with faculty, and for some of those we have collected data and done a few conference presentations/papers…
ryt1 8:21 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Engineering has been doing a few things along this line with faculty including revising targeted class sessions to identify where a ‘flip’ would be best to lecture capture, scaffolding problem sets, and placing ‘concept topics and worked examples’ online in order to allow for more active learning in the classroom. A couple of projects have provided promising information and results.
Cole Camplese 10:52 am on September 9, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
That is something we might want to explore — a shared methodology for *when* to think about flipping.
Allan Gyorke 9:06 am on September 12, 2011 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Rox, John Messner is the person I know about in Engineering who is doing this kind of work. When this goes further, we’ll need some great real-world examples of how this is done. Moving lecture content to online tools is only one part of this. I think redesigning the classroom time is what needs more attention.