Low cost methods for flipping your classroom

Low-cost methods for flipping your classroom!

Brian MulliganInstitute of Technology Sligo, Ireland.

GMIT, 2ndMay, 2017.

moocs4all.eu

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Flipped Learning

• Content delivered before class

– Reading, videos etc.

• “Homework” in class

– Discussions, problems (application)

Will students access the content before class?

• NO!• Not unless you check.• Verifiable pre-class

activity• Quiz

– Must be taken before class

“Prerequisites”for flipping your module

• You already teach it f2f

• You are happy with the structure– Learning Objectives

– Content aligned with learning objectives

• You are comfortable with IT– You use online services (Ryanair, Moodle..)

– You use PC applications (Word, Powerpoint)

– You use email

• You are a moderately competent presenter

Things you might have in your module!

• Learning Objects– Reading (Word, pdf etc)

– Video

– Simulations?

• Open Educational Resources– Link to them

• Create your own

• Simple quizzes

Videos• Popular• Effective• Engaging

– Presenter?– Length?

• Cheap and easy to create– If you know how– Manage expectations

• Screen capture– Slides, demonstrations, "whiteboard"

• Video– Headshot?, real "blackboard"

Video Tools

• Recording and editing

• Personal– Camtasia,

– Snagit

– Youtube Live (Hangouts on Air)

• Institutional – Lecture capture

–Panopto (IT Sligo)

–Conferencing system – Adobe Connect?

• Video hosting?– Moodle?, Server?, Youtube?

Classroom

Recording Booth

Lightboard

Recording Techniques

• Good Powerpoint technique

• Less is more

• Images

• Animation

• Draw on your slides?

• Minimise editing

– Prepare well

– Present to an audience?

Autograded “objective” tests

• E.g. Multiple choice quizzes

• Reliability? Validity? Motivation?

• For speed

– Edit in Word

–GIFT format

– import into Moodle

GIFT Format

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moocs4all.eu

• Collection and dissemination of low-cost methods

• Website and Community Forum

• MOOC: “Making MOOCs on a Budget”

The TeamInstitute of Technology, Sligo, IrelandTechnical University of Delft, Holland

Fachhochschule Bielefeld, GermanyUniversity of Girona, Spain

Bath Spa University, UK

LoCoMoTion Project


Thanks

Thanks for listening – over to you!

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