Quick Points
- Pre-record lecture and instructional content using Zoom or VidGrid in short, consumable videos (about 8-10 minutes max). Longer lectures or demonstrations can be recorded and posted as a series.
- Post your videos in Canvas so that students can watch them ahead of your class meeting.
- Class time can be dedicated to application and practice activities.
- To add a layer of accountability, instructors can create short viewing quizzes students must complete after watching the pre-recorded content.
More Information:
In flipped learning plan, what has traditionally been thought of as homework is done in class and what was typically done in class is now the homework. Here’s how:
- Pre-record lectures or instructional content in short, consumable videos (think 5-7 minutes max and less is better)
- Upload those videos to VidGrid and embed these short videos in your Canvas modules.
- Find your own way to assess what your students have learned from these flipped videos and find new ways for them to apply this new knowledge and new skills.
Class time is so valuable. With time now dedicated to, potentially, connecting additional technology and cleaning the learning surfaces before and after every class meeting, we are coaching classroom instructors to consider posting lectures and instructional videos for students to view before coming to class. Class time could then be available for application and practice activities.
- Example Lesson Plan 1: An Introductory Science Course: During the third week of a 100-level course on environmental ecology the professor posts a video demonstrating the differences between kinetic and potential energy. The short, five-minute video is followed by a three-question online quiz that requires students to demonstrate their understanding of the key principles explained in the video. At the next class meeting, students are assigned to demonstrate their understanding of the differences between kinetic and potential energy using materials they have brought with them to class.
- Example Lesson Plan 2: An Advanced Humanities Seminar: For the mid-term exam in a 300-level literary seminar, pairs of students are tasked with presenting on social, political and artistic influences of their assigned literary period. Working in these collaborative groups, students prepare presentations and pre-record them. The presentations are turned in on a discussion board in Canvas where the instructor grades each group’s presentation and the rest of the class can view and comment (if desired). At the next class meeting, the instructor assesses the students’ comprehension and application of the content presented in the student presentations.
- Example Lesson Plan 3: A Mathematics Core Course: During the second week of a section of MA251 Probability and Statistics, the instructor posts four short videos on how to use four different equations. At the next class meeting, the instructor gives the class a problem set to complete in small groups using the same equations demonstrated in the videos.
- Read (and Watch) More about recording lectures for flipped learning here: http://acue.org/online-teaching-toolkit/
To learn more about flipped learning, take a look at this post by Dr. Susi Mapp: “How (and Why) to Flip Your Class”