Flipped lassroom Teaching in Higher Ed Cynthia Sistek-Chandler, Ed D [email protected]National University Teacher Education Department Based on the work and research of Bergmann and Sams (2007-212) The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education by Jackie Gerstein, Ed D Boise State
Flipping the classroom in HE addresses programs that typically do not have offerings online. Although the trend is to blend, the traditional HE classroom can use websites online and have a digital pree
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The educator becomes a facilitator and tour guide (aka “guide on the side”) of learning possibilities – offering these possibilities to the learners and then gets out of the way.
Learning institutions are no longer gatekeepers to information. Anyone with connections to the Internet has access to high level, credible content.
Lectures in any form, face-to-face, videos, transcribed, or podcasts, should support learning not drive it nor be central to it.
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Basic Tenets of the Experiential FC
Informal learning today is connected, instantaneous, and personalized. Students should have similar experiences in their more formal learning environments.
Almost all content-related knowledge can be found online through videos, podcasts, and online interactive learning objects, and is more often better conveyed through these media than by classroom teachers.
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Basic Tenets of the Experiential FC
Learners need to be personally connected to the topic. Student engagement is the key to learning. This is more likely to occur through engaging experiential activities.
A menu of learning acquisition and demonstration options should be provided throughout the learning cycle.
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Experiential Engagement
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Experiential Engagement
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How to Flip the Higher Ed Classroom?
Divide into instructional blocks
Use the workshop model
Have students construct knowledge in class
Work on homework or other projects in class and monitor students individually
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To Flip or Not to FlipThe NU Model
4.5 Hours of contact hours for FTF Teaching
What is the best use of FTF time with our students?
Tied to your traditional approach? Think again.
Rethink the learner
Rethink the time in the classroom to connect to the digital world.
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Why Flip? Students learn more at their own pace (PLN)
Doing work “in-class” gives teacher better insight into individual students strengths and areas of need.
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Classroom time used more effectively
Digital connections
Supported by learning theory
Lambert, C. (2012, March/April). Twilight of the Lecture. Harvard Magazine,
Doug Holton Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona
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Lectures do still have a place [in the traditional classroom] and can be more effective if given in the right contexts, such as after (not before) students have explored something on their own (via a lab experience, simulation, game, field experience, analyzing cases, etc.) and developed their own questions and a ‘need to know.’