Howard University Center for Excellence in Teaching Learning and - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Howard University Center for Excellence in Teaching Learning and Assessment (CETLA) Course Redesign Seminar: Flipping the Classroom

Carl Brown ce_brown@howard.edu 202.806.0670

Workshop Objectives

• Define “flipping the classroom.”
• Identify steps in the process of “flipping.”
• Choose appropriate assessments to ensure that students

complete on-line learning activities.

• Discuss the HU-TEACH evaluation process.

Note: All files associated with this workshop are available on-line https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5o4g-QTRc0IWHBXckdqQUQ2QXc&usp=sharing

HU-TEACH Objectives

• Complete “Course Redesign Worksheet”. (See handout)
• Build Blackboard course site.
• Post “Course Redesign Worksheet” in Blackboard course site.
• Note: June 15, 2014 – Participants’ progress is reviewed (See handout)

Flipping v. Hybrid v. Online

• Flipping = Same number of face-to-face class

meeting

• Hybrid = Less number of face-to-face class

meetings

• Online = No face-to-face class meetings

Why do it at all

• Allows instructors to accommodate students’ learning

style

• In class activities: laboratory experiments, field work,

case-based assignments, role play, and problem-solving

• What are some other reasons

CETLA FAQs, Details, and Examples

• http://www.cetla.howard.edu/teaching_strategies/flip

ping_the_classroom.html#examples

Challenges

• Will students study before class
• Assessing the quality of classroom and on line

participation

• New to students
• What are some other challenges

What can be done on-line here at Howard

• Blackboard (Tools)
• Tegrity
• Itunes
• Textbook publishers tools
• Tell me what you are thinking
• What is missing here at Howard

Other on-line teaching tools

• http://voicethread.com/
• Digital media and lecture and collaboration
• http://popplet.com/
• Concept mapping tool
• http://www.polleverywhere.com/
• In class polling
• http://www.ck12.org/student/
• Free, digital text books/ lesson plans/ quizzes/ interactive

activities

• Tell me what you are thinking
• What is missing here at Howard

http://sites.dartmouth.edu/itd/2013/10/11/ed-tech-tools-sampler-workshop-oct-11th-2013/

What can now be done in classroom

• Student created content
• Independent problem solving
• Inquiry-based activities
• Project Based Learning
• What else can be done in the classroom

We will come back to this slide

Determining which aspects of your course can be move to an online environment

• Learning Objectives
• Revised Bloom Taxonomy
• Bloom Taxonomy Activity

Learning Objectives

• Learning Objectives (PDF)

Revised Bloom Taxonomy

• Revised Bloom Taxonomy (PDF)

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Activity

• Bloom Taxonomy Activity (PDF)
• http://edorigami.edublogs.org/files/2009/07/blooms-activity-

analysis.pdf

Workshop Activity

Develop online activities

• Step 1
• Select learning activities that will be changed to an
• nline environment
• On line activities should include an assessment
• Share with the group
• Step 2
• Work on “Course Redesign Worksheet”.

Promoting Active Learning

Classroom Activities

What can now be done in classroom

• Student created content
• Independent problem solving
• Inquiry-based activities
• Project Based Learning
• Others discussed earlier

Active Learning Approaches (PDF)

http://ideaedu.org/sites/default/files/paperidea_53.pdf

• Concept Testing
• Use clickers or poll software
• Thinking-Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS)
• Think-Pair-Share
• Visible Quiz
• (can be done with poll everywhere)
• Send/Pass-a-Problem
• See link below for other ideas
• http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1297
• http://web.calstatela.edu/dept/chem/chem2/Active/

In Class Active Learning Resources

Lecture Tools

• http://Prezi.com
• Presentation software
• http://infogr.am/
• Interactive infograshics
• https://mix.office.com/
• Interactive PowerPoint sides (video, audio, whiteboard, interactive quizzes, online videos,

and videos)

• This is new and I have not tested the software!

Service Learning

• http://www.cetla.howard.edu/teaching_strategies/service_learning/index.html#de

sign\

• Center for the Advancement of Service Learning (CASL)

http://www.coas.howard.edu/hucup/casl.htm

In Class Active Learning Resources

CASE-BASED TEACHING (CBT)

• http://www.cetla.howard.edu/teaching_strategies/facilitating_small_group

s/section_links/cbt.html#present

• National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/

In Class Active Learning Resources

Project Based Learning

• Project Based learning Template

http://wvde.state.wv.us/instruction/pbltemplate.html

• Project Based learning Rubrics

http://wvde.state.wv.us/instruction/pblrubrics.html

• Project Based learning “Instructor” self-evaluation forms

http://wvde.state.wv.us/instruction/pblforms.html

Boilerplate Language

• Add important verbiage (we will find most of this in the BB

template)

• How to log into the CETLA Blackboard Template (MS Word File)
• How to import the CETLA Blackboard Template (MS Word File)
• Peer and self group evaluation (MS Word File)

Workshop Activity

Develop in class activities

• Step 1
• Select learning activities that will be changed to in class active

learning activities

• Share with the group
• Step 2
• Move to computer lab
• Work on “Course Redesign Worksheet”.

Questions, Comments, Suggestions, or Complaints?