Will Technology Push Colleges Away From the Traditional Lecture Model? With the rapid influx of mobile devices, more students today are bringing their notebooks, tablets and smartphones into the classroom to enhance their learning experience. Add in day-to-day use of video and social media, and it's no surprise that this generation expects something much different from the "sage on the stage" classroom their parents learned in. Students want options for learning in new ways, and this is where the flipped classroom model comes into play: Students view online lectures on their own, leaving class time open for discussion or collaborative work. Allowing instructors to be the "guide on the side" lets students have more interaction with their peers in class while using technology to help them learn. To understand how the flipped classroom model can improve teaching and learning, CDW•G conducted a spring 2012 survey of 1,015 public high school and higher education students, faculty and IT managers. Get to the heart of what students and faculty want.
Skillshare Goes Global, Launching Hybrid Online-Offline Classes Skillshare, the startup that connects teachers and students online with offline courses, has announced that it's going global, with the launch of hybrid online-offline classes. Starting Tuesday, students anywhere in the world can enroll in Skillshare courses and collaborate with other students digitally. If you've never taken a Skillshare class, co-founder Michael Karnjanaprakorn describes the company's model in a question, "If you had to rebuild education from the ground up for the 21st century, what would it look like?" "I didn't hear a lot of success stories from the first course I taught on launching a startup," Karnjanaprakorn told Mashable. SEE ALSO: 7 Ways to Educate Yourself Outside the Classroom That experience led to the launch of Hybrid Classes, which focus on active participation and problem solving. Since its launch in April 2011, Skillshare has been a platform for exclusively offline education. SEE ALSO: Teach What You Know: How to Make a Living on Skillshare
The Life and Death of Flipped Classroom This is part two of a two-part post on the definition of Flipped Learning. Part one, “I’ve Copyrighted ‘Flipped Classroom’”, discusses how the term came about and why it has many misconceptions. The Wikipedia entry for ‘flip teaching‘ mentions the use of project-based learning (PBL) in a flipped class. I thought I’d look up the academic definition of both PBL and IL. The Buck Institute for Education, widely considered the definitive source on PBL, define it as: “a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning essential knowledge and life-enhancing skills through an extended, student-influenced inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks.” Interestingly enough, in a summary of research by John W. This was 1997. Inquiry, I found, is a variation of discovery learning and minimal guidance learning. So, where does that leave us? Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams didn’t coin the term “flipped”.
I've Copyrighted "Flipped Classroom" First, let me say, I have copyrighted the terms Flipped Classroom, Flipped Learning, Flipped Teaching and #flipclass. No one in the media can write a story using any of the terms without consulting me. No company can use any of these terms to promote a product without my approval. No one can blog or tweet on the topic without my endorsement. What? I can’t do that? Yes, the problem is the amount of information and misinformation out there regarding Flipped Classroom/Learning/Teaching. “This measurement of progress could be a breakthrough, says Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Google, who tells Gupta that innovation never comes from the institutions themselves, but rather from visionary figures outside those institutions. I’ll concede, as I believe most flipclass proponents would, that flipping is not the end-all-be-all, silver bullet, magic potion, or panacea to solve all our educational problems. This got me thinking about how a term becomes defined. Wikipedia defines Flip Teaching as:
Can “The Flipped Classroom” Model Work in Higher Education? [Infographic] If you are involved in education, you’ve likely heard about “The Flipped Classroom” model. But in case you haven’t, here is a quick breakdown: In the current model, professors lecture in the classroom, and students are assigned homework to do before their next class. In the flipped model, classroom time is used for concept engagement, such as group activities, and students are assigned video lectures to watch at home. Some feel that this takes greater advantage of the expertise of the professor, the group environment and the learning styles of the students and 67% reported that it improved test scores. Technology, and specifically the proliferation of personal computing devices and the Internet, is the driving force behind the movement. Case studies have shown that flipping the classroom leads to higher student engagement and better grades, but the real issue is whether universities will adopt such a dramatic change. This infographic originally appeared on Knewton.com.