I was very lucky to attend a talk by MIT physics professor Eric Mazur last week at Humboldt State University’s Institute for Student Success. While Mazur never once uttered the word “flip”, he clearly was advocating an inverted classroom model…
Concerns about student attendance is one of the arguments I’ve heard against flipping. Why would students bother coming to class if they can get all the content on their own time? Unfortunately, my lecture attendance did drop in my flipped…
Figuring out how to motivate students to come to class prepared is the first half of a successful flip. Figuring out how to keep them motivated by providing meaningful activities during class time is the second half of the challenge.…
It can take some serious momentum to motivate the filming of your own video lectures to flip a class. But once the commitment is made, I think it is important to periodically monitor the student experience with the online lectures.…
As educators, we are used to being vulnerable. We stand in front of crowds (and sometimes very big crowds) of humans and explain what we know. We guide the ship, so to speak, and if we make mistakes, they are…
In the last post, I talked about the many different ways to flip a class. When I decided to flip my classes, I spent a lot of time thinking about my student population and what form of the flip would…
Just like there are many ways to skin a cat (something most A&P teachers probably have extensive personal experience with!), there are also many ways to flip a class. The purpose of a flipped classroom is to motivate students to…
I’ve heard people argue that you don’t have to flip every single class when you first start flipping. After experiencing firsthand the incredible amount of time required to pull off a single flipped lecture, I can really see the value…
When I decided to flip my class, I knew I would need a very convincing explanation to justify the change, for both my students and colleagues. Selling the idea to my colleagues ended up being pretty straight forward. They thought…
My name is Wendy Riggs, and I am an adjunct instructor at College of the Redwoods (CR), a two year community college in Eureka, California. I teach Anatomy, Physiology and non-majors Biology to primarily pre-nursing students. I’ve been teaching at…