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== How to Flip a Classroom == | == How to Flip a Classroom == | ||
*Typically, flipping involves three critical steps: | *Typically, flipping involves three critical steps: | ||
− | #Students learn basic concepts before the class meeting using those concepts. Instructors of flipped classrooms often provide students with videos to watch | + | #Students learn basic concepts before the class meeting using those concepts. Instructors of flipped classrooms often provide students with videos to watch as part of their preparation. |
#Instructors quiz students on these concepts right before class. | #Instructors quiz students on these concepts right before class. | ||
#Instructors and students spend class time using the concepts in problems and analyses. | #Instructors and students spend class time using the concepts in problems and analyses. | ||
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**pajholden's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pajholden/videos | **pajholden's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pajholden/videos | ||
− | *You can find related ideas and methods on our [[Inquiry-based learning]] and [[Cooperative learning]] pages. | + | *You can find related ideas and methods on our [[Inquiry-based learning]] and [[Cooperative learning]] pages. |
== Evidence == | == Evidence == |
Revision as of 14:38, 27 October 2013
"Flipping a classroom" means the instructor uses class time for problem-solving, analysis, and discussion, after students have first learned basic concepts outside of class via reading or lecture videos.
How to Flip a Classroom
- Typically, flipping involves three critical steps:
- Students learn basic concepts before the class meeting using those concepts. Instructors of flipped classrooms often provide students with videos to watch as part of their preparation.
- Instructors quiz students on these concepts right before class.
- Instructors and students spend class time using the concepts in problems and analyses.
- Economics-specific guides to flipping the classroom will be posted soon!
- Here are two popular YouTube channels offering short video explanations of economic concepts. Note, we have not reviewed these videos and do not vouch for their accuracy or effectiveness.
- mjm foodie's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/mjmfoodie/about
- pajholden's channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/pajholden/videos
- You can find related ideas and methods on our Inquiry-based learning and Cooperative learning pages.
Evidence
- The Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University provides a nice introduction to the method and cites evidence of effectiveness produced by Carl Wieman and colleagues.
- Peer Instruction is a similar method, which has been proven effective.
- We recommend watching Eric Mazur’s talk, Confessions of a Converted Lecturer, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI.
Examples
- Stephen D. Morris has flipped an introductory macroeconomics class at UC San Diego.
- Dr. Jose J. Vazquez Cognet (Clinical Professor, Department of Economics, and Coordinator of E-Learning, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is "currently running two studies on Flipping the Classroom; one field experiment using my large principles of economics course; and also a clinical study (randomized control trial study)." He is trying to replicate some of the findings from Physics courses.