Transcript A busy professors guide to sanely flipping your classroom

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Flipping Your Classroom
Dr. Cynthia Furse
Electrical & Computer Engineering
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Class – Student Experience
What would you LIKE?
From a student this semester:
The videos and notes online were amazing. Didn’t
quite get that... rewind, or watch it again later.
Very helpful, can’t stress that enough. More classes
should do this. An amazing instructor.
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What would you NOT like?
From one research dean:
I have heard that not all students like the flipped classroom
approach either because they feel it is too much work!
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Keys
Successful
Online Lectures
•Explain what you want students to learn
•Short segments, well-focused topics
•Easy to view / see.
•Lectures online well in advance of the F2F class
•And …. ?
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Do
Students
Really Watch the Videos?
WHY did you watch
the video?
Would your students
watch for the same
reason?
A bunch watched
when I first uploaded
/ webinar advertised.
Several watched in
the last day or two.
Last weekend ….
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Audience
Retention
(Did they watch it all?)
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Demographics
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What to
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Questions ?
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What to
about
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How do you ‘tune’ your
lectures?
Traditional: YOU tune
Flipped: STUDENTS tune
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What to
about
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But wait, there’s more!
WHERE/WHEN/WHAT
can/do the students ask
questions?
What REALLY seems to make the
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difference: The F2F Class
•DO NOT REPEAT THE LECTURE !!!
•Short review
•HW problems
•Peer/Paper
Professor / Blackboard
•Applications (Cool, Real Stuff)
Small Group Problem Solving (2-4min)
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Questions Arise!
NOW they know what
they don’t know …
Let’s talk about it. (Problem Solving Strategy)
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WHERE/WHEN/WHAT
can/do the students ask
questions?
Traditional
Flipped
Before/After Class
(Video or Discussion Board)
In Class
InClass Short Review (‘Are there any
questions?’)
InClass -- Triggered by Problem Solving
Office Hours
Office Hours
(Peers) in Study Groups ?
(Peers) in Study Groups ?
What REALLY seems to make the
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difference: The F2F Class
•DO NOT REPEAT THE LECTURE !!!
What about the students who didn’t watch
the videos??
•Short review
•HW problems
•Peer/Paper
Professor / Blackboard
•Applications (Cool, Real Stuff)
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Lectures:
Exams: Motivate Learning,
Assess Success
Midterm I
25/100
Final Section I
75/100
Midterm II
70 / 100
Final Section II
85 / 100
Midterm III
95/100
Final Section III
N/A !
Average: 85 %
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Video
Lectures:
Exams: Motivate Learning,
Assess Success
Midterm I
25/100
Final Section I
75/100
Midterm II
42 / 100
Final Section II
85 / 100
Midterm III
95/100
Final Section III
Save Grading Time!
N/A !
Average: 85 %
Questions ?
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Higher Level Understanding ? Intuition ?
Portfolio Question for the day:
WHAT is the Electric Field???
Students:
‘It goes from two charges, like from positive to
negative’ …. Math … textbook pictures … equations …
And then … Students / Teacher
raise questions …
How do you measure it? What
does it do? How do we know it is
there? What can we use it for?
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Are to
There
•Yes, but I might look stupid if I ask.
•There are NO stupid questions! (Safe place)
•WHAT is the Electric Field???
•(Discuss with your neighbors … Two minutes)
•Think-Pair-Share – NOW are there any questions?
•Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving (Students as
Teachers)
•Group Problem Solving
•Vote for the answer / Clickers
•Reference/ Resources: Richard Felder NCSU
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Higher Level
Thinking Skills
How can we know?
http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
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What do your students GAIN from your F2F class?
Is it essential? What do they LEARN? Is it a waste of their
time? Does it SAVE them time?
Should you care if your students come to your F2F class?
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You Push This?
Flipped / Hybrid / Fully Online
Can I just skip Friday?
MOOCs
Flipped Classroom: Resources
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www.ece.utah.edu/~cfurse
Open Invitation
to Visit My
Class
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So Where
We Go From Here?
• What is the optimal Role for the Professor?
• Are We becoming Dispensible,
or Indispensible?
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So Where
We Go From Here?
• Fully Online Versions?
• Of MOOCs and Money ?
• Is Knowledge Worth Money, or is it the DEGREE we
are paying for?
• For Profit Education and the cost of a Degree ?
• Concurrent (High School) Enrollment?
• MIT
• Stanford
• Khan Academy
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So Where
We Go From Here?
• Opening Education to the World
Why Should They Come HERE?
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So Where
We Go From Here?
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Can We (Can I?) Impact the Gender Disparity?
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So Where
We Go From Here?
•Can My Students Learn More? Can I Teach Them More?
•Higher Level Thinking ?( How to Assess This???)
•Retention – Does it mean the same thing ?
•Learning Faster?
•Learning Happier?
•What Can >I< LEARN???
•What Do I WANT to Learn??
A Busy Professor’s Guide to Sanely
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Flipping
‘Any Questions?’
Dr. Cynthia Furse
Electrical & Computer Engineering
www.ece.utah.edu/~cfurse