I wanted to share this article by Douglas H. Fisher, an associate professor of computer science and of computer engineering at Vanderbilt. He clearly struggled with using other's content and finally found a massively open online courses (or MOOC) that was so good it served as his template for Flipping his classes. Our conversations have veered in this direction as we have talked over the past seven weeks and I think this article warrents a good looking over (See at https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/warming-up-to-moocs/44022) and important to me is his realization of the exciting new direction for higher education where we work more collaboratively with our colleauges by sharing resources and innovations that truly work.

Below are some thoughts from one of my former middle school students who is now in high school & in a flipped classroom. I'll let her words speak for themselves, but think her words speak to the state of science education well beyond the flipped class model.

TED-Ed is a platform where educators can find videos, many of which are the result of collaborations between teachers and animators, to supplement and enrich their core curriculum. Teachers using Ted-Ed can select any educational video to create a customized lesson, and choose whether to share it publicly or privately, tracking its impact on their students or the world.

San Jose State University has found that flipping the classroom for one of its toughest courses has led to a 10 to 11 point increase in test scores, reported the Chronicle of Higher Education. For years students at the school have struggled with the introductory electrical engineering class; last semester 40% of students taking the class received a C or lower.

A bit dated, but still a very good article with lots of excellent points about capturing content for classes.