The Coming Era of Personalized Learning Paths. Personalized learning paths, designed to meet the needs and goals of each learner, can lead to a redefinition and a new understanding of lifelong learning to include informal as well as formal learning, delivered at scale.
Peter Smith is President of the Open College at Kaplan University (OC@KU). He blogs at Rethinking Higher Education. Every now and then, I read something that provides a framework for organizing previously disconnected understandings into a more coherent logic. Such an experience occurred when I read the September/October 2013 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, with its organizing theme of "Higher Education in the Connected Age.
" In her Homepage department column, EDUCAUSE President and CEO Diana Oblinger elaborated on the theme: Connecting is about reaching out and bringing in, about building synergies to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. . . . Two of those changes are unlimited content and unlimited access: Kuny. Creative-commons-infographic-medium.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 1351 pixels) - Scaled (48%) BuildingTransformationFrameworksPractices. 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About - InformED : Humanizing Your Online Class. The Flipped Classroom Model: A Full Picture.
Due to Khan Academy’s popularity, the idea of the flipped classroom has gained press and credibility within education circles.
Briefly, the Flipped Classroom as described by Jonathan Martin is: Flip your instruction so that students watch and listen to your lectures… for homework, and then use your precious class-time for what previously, often, was done in homework: tackling difficult problems, working in groups, researching, collaborating, crafting and creating. Classrooms become laboratories or studios, and yet content delivery is preserved. Supporting Modeling Instruction around the USA and the world.
Whiteboarding Mistake Game: A Guide. The Mistake Game (which I’ll describe in more detail in just a moment) has become the default mode of whiteboarding (problems, not experiments) in my physics classes.
I’ve written about it before (old links at the bottom of this post), but felt like I needed to write again, now that I’ve been using it almost exclusively (as opposed to “regular” whiteboarding) for the past year. I also want to point out some potential pitfalls of using this type of whiteboarding, give some tips on how it has worked best for me, and talk about some of the benefits. I’d better start, though, with a description of what I mean by the “Mistake Game”. What is the Mistake Game? In a moment, I’m going to describe the first day of whiteboarding in my classes using the same sort of style that I use in my model-building posts. Before that, I should talk a little bit about what happens before we start whiteboarding.
Later in the year, I won’t worry so much. Should You Flip Your Classroom? At its core, "flipped instruction" refers to moving aspects of teaching out of the classroom and into the homework space.
With the advent of new technologies, specifically the ability to record digitally annotated and narrated screencasts, instructional videos have become a common medium in the flipped classroom. Although not limited to videos, a flipped classroom most often harnesses different forms of instructional video published online for students. Despite recent buzz, catalyzed primarily by Salman Khan's TED talk, flipped instruction is by no means a new methodology. In the early 19th century, General Sylvanus Thayer created a system at West Point where engineering students, given a set of materials, were responsible for obtaining core content prior to coming to class.
The classroom space was then used for critical thinking and group problem solving. The Pros Advocates of the flipped classroom point to its potential as a time-shifting tool. And Cons. The Flipped Class Manifest. Photo: Document with Red Line by Dukeii (Editor's Note: The conversation and interest in the flipped class continues . . .
From our very first post about this topic in January 2011 to date (3/30/13), The Daily Riff has received 250,000+ views to related posts which are linked below - extending to over 100 countries. Today's post is authored by eight notable advocates for the flipped classroom. Thanks goes to our guest post contributors, and of course, our avid readers. Disclosure: The Daily Riff is not financially affiliated in any way with the flipped class. - C.J. Cycles of Learning.