Talk:Emily Scampini: Flipped Classroom Learning

-- Gabrielle.wasserzug (talk) 11:52, 1 May 2016 (EDT)

Emily,

First of all, I was so excited when I saw you were designing a course on flipped classroom learning. I would love to implement this in my classroom. So your course will be very useful for my professional development!

Introduction Page

Your introduction page for your mini-course is well organized and gets the point across. Your written introduction is catchy and relatable! Also the flipped classroom image is very clever! Your course goals are appropriate and make your course attractive to the participants. Regarding navigation, I just have a couple comments. The link at the top of the page to return to the ETAP 623 homepage directs us to the Spring 2015 page (that's an easy fix, just wanted to make sure you knew).

Unit One Page

Initial Survey I like the colored arrows you use. Helps the participant organize the categories and adds a little color! It is funny how we approached our first unit/module very similarly!

The questions in your survey are great. The questions guide the participant to start connecting their prior experiences to the course and what they want to get out of it. One minor thing is Question #4. The sub-questions are awesome, but the way the question is designed I can only answer three of the six sub-questions with either "Strongly disagree", "agree", or "strongly agree". So I can't "strongly agree with multiple statements nor respond to all six of the sub-questions. Like I said though, the questions are great and help the participant get in the mindset of flipped classroom learning before the mini-lecture and learning activities.

Also like you noticed after submitting my survey, there is no way to navigate back to your course after the survey. I actually just included a link at the top of my survey and reminded the participants in a question at the bottom to click the link before submitting. Just a suggestion!

Mini-Lecture Great idea to use a TedTalk video with Salmon Khan. I think almost every educator knows about Khan Academy by now. I used his videos in college and he helped me so much! I'm sure other teachers would agree that his site is a valuable tool in education. The additional video you provided also is very informative because a classroom teacher explains how she has flipped her classroom. You aligned this activity to your objective well by asking the participants to list "the benefits that flipped classroom learning can offer".

I'd also like to point out that you kept things interesting by providing multiple ways of presenting information (video and article). And the article provided a deeper look into the reality of flipped classroom learning.

Learning Activities I like that you are using an edublog as a tool for the participants to share their thoughts. The guided questions you provided help the participants reach the learning objective for this unit. I also think you make the questions worthwhile to answer because you ask the participants to connect these ideas to their own classroom experiences.

Conclusion You wrapped up the unit very well and also provided a good introduction to the following unit. I like that you provided links at the bottom to navigate around the course and to access your page. However, the link to return to the "Mini-Course Units" directed me to someone else's course.

One last thing...if there are any external resources or references you used I suggest adding a section that provides them (since it does count as 10% of our project grade)

Awesome job so far! I can't wait to see the rest of your course!

Gabrielle

Instructor comments -- Jz833665 (talk) 14:16, 5 May 2016 (EDT)

Hi Emily,

I enjoy reviewing the overall design and sequencing of your mini-course and your unit 1. The overall design works well, with the units sequenced to address the needs related to why, how to create, and how to use. From a task analysis and sequencing perspective, I think you need to expand the first objective/unit to include a sub-objective about what flapped classroom is, before looking at its benefits. To engage the learner upfront, you may further consider beginning your mini-course's front page with a brief case scenario of a flapped classroom, which may be re-visited in your unit 1 and unit 2 to consider its defining features, and ways to create such classrooms. Using this strategy the whole mini-course will be case-based and progresssively deepened. What do you think?

Jianwei