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With advocates like Sal Khan and Bill Gates, flipped classrooms are attracting an increasing amount of media and research attention. We had heard Khan's TED talk and were aware of the concept of inverted pedagogies in general. Yet, it really hit home when we accidentally flipped our classroom. Our objective was to better prepare our students for class. We set out to effectively move some of our course content outside of class and decided to tweak the Just-in-Time-Teaching approach (JiTT). To our surprise, this tweak - which we like to call the flip-JiTT - ended up completely flipping our classroom. What follows is narrative of our experience and a procedure that any teacher can use to extend JiTT to a flipped classroom

A technique developed to combat racial conflict in the classroom and prevent situations like the Columbine massacre. I am sure it can be adapted to use in multi-ethnic, multi-religious cohorts as well. It would be especially intriguing to see how such a model can be used in an online classroom in say a MOOC

A technique developed to combat racial conflict in the classroom and prevent situations like the Columbine massacre. I am sure it can be adapted to use in multi-ethnic, multi-religious cohorts as well. It would be especially intriguing to see how such a model can be used in an online classroom in say a MOOC

"Flipped learning is an approach to learning in which the order of the typical classroom lecture and work outside the classroom are reversed. Instead of the classroom lectures preceding assignments,...

Cutting Edge classroom response - in teaching Physics - a new paper by Eric Mazur

Impressive! Sandra thank you for sharing this with all of us!

Journal article: development of a pedagogy for using Classroom Response System in Science Teaching using formative assessment.

Journal article: development of a pedagogy for using Classroom Response System in Science Teaching using formative assessment.

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Changing the context for learning can really stimulate learners to engage with a subject, critically and personally.

Ed, this is something that I have seen with my kids as well. I just wonder whether has anyone of you implemented game like approach to classroom or online classroom.

This recording of a webinar organised by The eLearning Guild looks at the common reasons learners disengage in synchronous virtual environments, and which factors you can influence to change this. There are also five pdf resources including a helpful checklist on the features of an engaging online classroom.

This web article published by Faculty Focus suggests that students are more willing to ask questions and interact with their fellow students in face to face settings if they have been offered the opportunity to engage through synchronous online tools. It then outlines reasons why these tools are beneficial for learning.

Now this was and is interesting. Thanks mr T

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math. He shows how using the videos students can watch lectures "at home", and do the interactive exercises "in the classroom" with the teacher or peers.

A good video by Teresa Coffman which introduces podcasting. altough the target audience is not in higher education this is good and it arrangement by themes enhances comprehension.

Zainab, thank you for sharing. I plan to do podcast for my Project so this is something that I would need.

this resource examines how cooperative learning techniques can be used in teaching Science subjects

Journal article: strategies to design effective multiple choice and "clicker" suitable questions

Journal article: strategies to design effective multiple choice and "clicker" suitable questions