Emory College Online - Flipping the Classroom

January 2013 Tracking Online Ed in the US

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Educators use two distinct processes to help students build lifelong learning skills: assessment and evaluation. Assessment provides feedback on knowledge, skills, attitudes, and work products for the purpose of elevating future performances and learning outcomes. Evaluation determines the level of quality of a performance or outcome and enables decision-making based on the level of quality demonstrated. These two processes are complementary and necessary in education.

Introduction Teachers today are experimenting with alternatives to traditional tests. Performance assessment, portfolio collections, classroom observation, peer assessment, and self-evaluation are joining the unit test and the final exam in the repertoire of the skillful teacher. Such teachers ensure that an over-reliance on testing does not seriously distort instruction or impede important school improvement efforts.

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May 20, 2013 By: Emily A. Moore in Teaching with Technology From Web-enhanced face-to-face courses to MOOCs, flipped, blended, and fully online courses, videos are an integral component of today's educational landscape-from kindergarten all the way through higher education. But there's a big difference between watching a video and learning something from it.

"On June 3, 2013 I sat in a room at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany at a Turning Technologies User Conference. The room was quiet as we listened to Christopher Wiley, the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the City University London and expert in musicology, explain how an off the cuff decision to use classroom..."

Creating questions outside of Blackboard has some advantages over developing questions within Blackboard; ability to use Excel and Word; to spell check, ability to see all information on one page, reuseable files (.txt), and all question types or supported.

alternatives to, rather than enhancements of, professors' lectures. We provide below a survey of a wide variety of active learning techniques which can be used to supplement rather than replace lectures. We are not advocating complete abandonment of lecturing, as both of us still lecture about half of the class period.

Tech-Enabled Learning | Feature 6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom Three leaders in flipped classroom instruction share their best practices for creating a classroom experience guaranteed to inspire lifelong learning. Illustration by Peter Hoey "If you were to step into one of my classrooms, you'd think I was teaching a kindergarten class, not a physics class," laughs Harvard University (MA) professor Eric Mazur.

July 22, 2013 By: Penne Restad, PhD in Teaching with Technology The Internet flipped learning before instructors did. Want to find out something? Google it. Wikipedia it. Use your laptop or smartphone or iPad. That's where the "answers" are. Some of us initially reacted to this cyber-democratization of information asserting, "This isn't right!

A shortened version of the presentation that Eric Mazur gave at the SSAT's National Conference in Liverpool, on 4 December