This is a bit longer post, but we wanted to provide this information for those of you working on media for the new semester. Planning on recording content for the spring semester? These responses to the more popular questions will hopefully curb a few common issues that come up throughout the semester. How long will… Read more »
Encouraging Student Engagement with Video
As we finish the spring semester, it’s time to consider the design of your fall 2020 face-to-face course content delivery as you migrate to an online or blended format. In this blog, I’ll focus on a couple of basic tips for your videos with the aim of supporting engagement with content. Hopefully, you have a… Read more »
Flipping Your Class, Part 4: First Exposure Matters? Presenting Materials to Students Online
In the last part of this series, we filled our in-class framework with activities that allow our students to collaborate on the advanced learning objectives to achieve mastery. For this final part, we’ll be designing a pre-class session focusing on our basic learning objectives that students complete on their own. Our primary goal is to… Read more »
Flipping Your Class, Part 3: What Should I Do? So Much Room for Activities!
In Part 2, we created our learning objectives (LOs) and sorted them based on their level of cognitive complexity. We begin part three by planning the in-class portion where students will have peer and instructor support in achieving the advanced LOs. Whether a person is planning a traditional lecture or a flipped class, it’s important… Read more »
Flipping Part 2: Pre-class or In-class? Deciding Where Learning Objectives Belong
In the first part of this series, I provided a comprehensive list of learning objectives (LOs) for classes. I tried to ensure that this list wasn’t too exhaustive, making sure to consolidate repetitive and less significant objectives. In this part, we will order these objectives by cognitive complexity, starting from the lower levels and working… Read more »
Flipping Part 1: Start at the End? Building a Framework for a Flipped Class
This is the first post in a series about how to flip your classes, an approach that moves some content delivery outside of the classroom in order to provide in-class time for practice in applying that information to build new knowledge. It is suggested that, like all new instructional approaches, you try flipping one class… Read more »