Conference presentation
Activity and student-centred learning – welcome to a flipped classroom
2013 Learning & Teaching Week Program Booklet, p.16
Learning & Teaching Week, 2013 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 26-Aug-2013–30-Aug-2013)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2013
Abstract
We have been experimenting with the design and teaching aspects of a 'flipped classroom' approach, as have several other staff in FoSHEE last semester. Feedback from students' expressed high levels of satisfaction with their learning experience in the flipped class. Lecturers say they will not return to their old method of teaching (based on the lecture), as their personal teaching experience was more engaging. The flipped classroom uses a blended approach to learning. Key content and concepts are delivered online before the scheduled class time. Class time is now available for students to engage in peer learning activities that are designed to help them develop their problem solving and meta-cognitive skills, beyond that feasible when studying independently. Students have many more opportunities to ask questions, experiment with their peers, and get it wrong without high-stakes consequences. This workshop approach to learning does not depend on technology for it to be implemented as it predominantly uses team and project-based approaches to problem- based learning, but there are technologies that enhance this interactivity. To illustrate this key component of the flipped approach, this presentation highlights an activity used in a recent presentation by Harvard Professor, Eric Mazur, who has been using the flipped approach for nearly twenty years. He focuses on active learning through peer instruction during class time and believes the success of online and in-class learning is the facilitation of instantaneous feedback, for both teacher and student (2013). Several technologies provide instant feedback to instructors but Mazur has developed a cloud-based program that also helps students to engage more effectively with their peers by using learning analytics. This presentation discusses the main aspects of the flipped classroom and recreates a version of Mazur's workshop (delivered in June 2013) that shows how some of these new technologies (based on Wi-Fi access and mobile computing) can increase student learning and interactions. The combination of the flipped class approach, learning analytics, and mobile computing will increasingly dominate learning and teaching over the coming years (Horizon Report, 2013: Educause, 2013). These approaches centre the primary focus of learning on what the student does, not the teacher.
Details
- Title
- Activity and student-centred learning – welcome to a flipped classroom
- Authors
- Terry Lucke (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and EngineeringUlrike Keyssner (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Publication details
- 2013 Learning & Teaching Week Program Booklet, p.16
- Conference details
- Learning & Teaching Week, 2013 (Sunshine Coast, Australia, 26-Aug-2013–30-Aug-2013)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Date published
- 2013
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449117302621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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