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What is Flipping the Classroom

Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments
Type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school.
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Beaches, Temples, and Flying Proas: Reflections on Five Years of Efforts to Foster Learner-Centered Pedagogies at the University of Guam
Kirk Johnson (University of Guam, Guam), Heather Garrido (University of Guam, Guam), Alyssa Gordon (University of Guam, Guam), M. G. Remitera-Huavas (University of Guam, Guam), Artemia Perez (University of Guam, Guam), and Amber Uncangco (University of Guam, Guam)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4036-7.ch009
Abstract
Our mission at educators, teachers, professors, and yes, even guides and facilitators on the journey of knowledge and learning for students in higher education must be to strive each and every day to foster an environment within the classroom and even beyond its walls that seeks to empower the learners to take charge of their own learning and to endeavor to find approaches and strategies that most effectively contribute to the outcomes of stated learning objectives. In this chapter, the authors analyze five years of experience within the classroom setting in upper level sociology courses at the University of Guam. The experience centers around strategies and approaches in three broad areas of learner-centered pedagogy that include flipping the classroom, collaborative, and active learning approaches.
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Organization of Distance Learning: Online Course “Supply Chain Finance”
Normally a class starts with instruction of theory and an example, students study theory and make an assignment (often an excise) at home to discuss that in the next class. In theflipping the classroom’ approach this sequence is flipped, so students read the theory and make an exercise before the class. In the class, the theory is summarised using, for instance, formative ways of testing, and the exercise is discussed using the questions of the students.
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