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TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing. Flip Your Blackboard Site 2. What Is The Role Of Content In Flipped Classrooms? In a flipped classroom, students ‘attend’ the lesson outside of the classroom, typically in the form of teacher presentation videos or animated slide shows that can be viewed online, and in more sophisticated instances, followed by some diagnostic tests to indicate the progress of each student in the understanding of the material presented in that lesson. The intent is for students to know enough of the topic (to be taught in class) and, having reflected adequately on the ideas they encountered at home, return to class with questions to clarify their understanding. The benefits of a flipped classroom are progressively recognized and relatively well-documented (Fulton, 2012; Bergmann & Sams, 2013; Bergmann 2011; Ash, 2012).

In its ideal state, a flipped classroom can transform the learning experience of students. Why Flip? Getting students to spend more time studying or learning can be a tall order, especially when faced with a topic that they do not see much need for knowing. Amy Baldwin | It's In The Syllabus | Home. Week Eight: 4/22/13 - 4/26/13. In This Issue... 2013 Legislative Session - Week 8 As we enter the final week of the 2013 Legislative Session, several items that have been unresolved have finally been worked out. Lawmakers have agreed on a $74 billion budget late Sunday for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The budget includes $480 million in teacher pay raises, a new formula for paying hospitals under the Medicaid program and a few projects for key lawmakers' districts. The agreement comes just ahead of the Tuesday deadline for each chamber to lay the budget “on the table” for 72 hours before final passage.

Under the deal on teacher pay raises, one of Gov. Also included is a new formula for hospital reimbursements for services provided to Medicaid patients. During the conference meeting, Negron also laced into the "turkey list" released annually by TaxWatch, a nonprofit organization whose annual report logs so-called budget turkeys. The bill also includes an “opt-in” provision for students.

Top Learning Management System Software: LMS, SCORM, elearning. Seven Free Platforms for Teaching Online Courses. More and more high schools are embracing online courses to reach more students and all times of the day. While you can spend a lot of money for online course software, you don't have to. Here are seven free platforms for teaching online courses. This list cannot begin without mentioning Moodle first. Moodle is an free platform that is commonly referred to as a course management system or virtual learning environment.

To use Moodle you have to either install it on your own server(s) or have someone host it for you. Claroline is an open source program that gives users the freedom to create their own online classroom. Udemy is a new free platform for teaching courses online. RCampus is a free, web-based, platform for creating and conducting courses online. Learnopia is a free service that offers hosting for online courses. Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) is an online community of people sharing their knowledge through university-level courses. Teaching College Courses Online versus Face-to-Face. Larson_1. Internet_evaluation_6. 11761. Online_F2F. Online vs. Face to Face: Is There a Difference in How Accounting and Finance Students Learn in an Online vs. Face-to-Face Setting? by Kimberly Sipes, Victor Ricciardi.

This is a PDF file of 'Online vs. Face to Face: Is There a Difference in How Accounting and Finance Students Learn in an Online vs. Face-to-Face Setting? ' slides from a presentation at the Innovative Teaching Methods Conference of the American Accounting Association: Southeast Region on March 31, 2006 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Scholars in behavioral accounting, finance, and economics have begun to investigate how novices and experts learn in a wide range of accounting and financial settings. As educators, our primary goal is to facilitate the learning of our students. The focus of this session was to review the main studies within the literature of learning as it relates to online delivery and face-to-face delivery of courses. Note: SSRN is experimenting with enabling the distribution of different types of files: slides, spreadsheets, video, etc. Comparing Student Learning Outcomes in Face-To-Face and Online Course Delivery.