Dan Hickey and John Walsh
Surely you have heard about it by now. Find (or make) the perfect online video lecture for teaching particular concepts and have students watch it before class. Then use the class for more interactive discussion. In advance of presenting at Ben Motz’ Pedagogy Seminar at Indiana University on March 22, we are going to raise some questions about this practice. We will then describe a comprehensive alternative that leads to a rather different way of using online videos, while still accommodating prevailing expectations for coverage, class structure, and accountability.
Compared to What?
A March 21 webinar by Jonathan Bergman that was hosted by e-School News (and sponsored by Camtasia web-capture software) described flipped classrooms as a place where “educators are actively transferring the responsibility and ownership of learning from the teacher to the students.” That sounds pretty appealing when Bergman compares it to “teachers as dispensers of facts” and students as “receptacles of information.”
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