Nothing seems to polarize my students more than their opinion of ‘flipped classrooms’, in which course content is consumed primarily outside the classroom, with instructional time devoted to application or mastery of the material. Though the term is often used loosely, a flipped classroom should have four key components (via Brame, 2013): Exposure to the…Continue Reading Flipping the classroom
Last year, one of the first posts I wrote for the TL site was as a summary of Kaltura, Inc’s whitepaper on the state of video in the education space. Kaltura is back at it again in 2016, this time with a much more in-depth, 45-page report. While I think it’s important to bear in mind…Continue Reading Report – Interactive Video in Education 2016
Every summer I teach a course called The Arts in Portland, Fine Arts 307. It’s a follow up to the core course, Fine Arts 207, but we allow students to take FA 307 as a substitute for FA 207. That means that some students have not had the basic introduction to film, music, theater, architecture,…Continue Reading An Old Dog Learns New Tech Tricks for Teaching