{"id":2175,"date":"2012-01-27T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2012-01-27T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T11:39:17","slug":"flipping-education-a-new-term-for-an-old-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/27\/flipping-education-a-new-term-for-an-old-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Flipping&#8221; education: a new term for an old idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard the term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flip_teaching\">&#8220;flipped&#8221; teaching<\/a>, so I wanted to make a note of it, via Mel Chua, who <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.melchua.com\/2012\/01\/23\/pondermel-test-driven-matlab-for-teaching-high-school-software-engineering-faculty-workshops\/\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>my classmate Nikitha\u2019s project for pedagogy class: redesign Purdue\u2019s MATLAB-heavy intro-to-engineering first-year class to use a \u201cflipped\u201d model \u2013 view lectures at home, work on homework in class where there\u2019s help available. (Mind you, this doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll implement it; she\u2019s a TA, not the prof. Still, it\u2019s cool.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Flipped teaching is one of the ideas that could help sustain and justify small-group teaching as <a href=\"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/stanford-ai-class-some-off-the-cuff-reactions-envisioning-a-future-of-technical-learning-online\/\">highly scaleable online learning becomes feasible and productive<\/a>; MSNBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/46138856\/ns\/technology_and_science-innovation\/#.TyKId5Y9UUh\">notes that<\/a>, &#8220;Apparently even the Stanford students preferred watching the classroom lectures as online videos on their own time.&#8221; They report that 85-90% of Thrun&#8217;s in-person AI class at Stanford AI had stopped attending by the end of the class. Imagine Thrun&#8217;s shock: &#8220;These are students who pay $30,000 a year to Stanford to see the best and brightest of our professors, and they prefer to see us on video?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In-class homework is not a new idea: the success of Berkeley&#8217;s Math\/Science Workshop and UT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cns.utexas.edu\/community\/emerging-scholars\">Emerging Scholars Program<\/a> (which I TA&#8217;d back in the days when I taught calculus) was based on providing challenging problems and group study support in class.<\/p>\n<p>Nor is avoiding lecture: It would be interesting to compare the underlying philosophy of flip teaching to <a href=\"http:\/\/sjca.edu\/\">St. John&#8217;s<\/a>, where, rather than listening lectures, students discuss the source materials in small groups. It was a wonderful way to learn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard the term &#8220;flipped&#8221; teaching, so I wanted to make a note of it, via Mel Chua, who says: my classmate Nikitha\u2019s project for pedagogy class: redesign Purdue\u2019s MATLAB-heavy intro-to-engineering first-year class to use a \u201cflipped\u201d model \u2013 view lectures at home, work on homework in class where there\u2019s help available. (Mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[114,499,500],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-education","tag-flip-teaching","tag-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}