In Blended and Flipped Learning
October 26, 2020 Samantha Clifford, EdD
Our mid-sized state university decided to institute a blended synchronous delivery model this year. A facilitated online workshop was offered over the summer to assist faculty in designing classes…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
January 13, 2020 Gwen Bass, PhD, and Michael Lawrence-Riddell
Put simply, “people learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone” (Mayer, 2005). Multimedia theory posits the idea that people’s brains more effectively integrate new information…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Online Education
December 11, 2019 Kevin Yee
Online instructors have known for some time that the primary work of creating an online course consists of “curation,” which is usually understood to be a matter of selecting…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
November 27, 2019 Nisha Malhotra, PhD
There is a vast pedagogical literature spelling out the benefits of student engagement and active participation (1). A recent meta-analysis study of 225 active learning classes further concludes that…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
November 20, 2019 Christian Aguiar
With written communication becoming increasingly multimodal—from newspaper websites to your social media feed to your learning management system’s announcements page—researchers and practitioners alike have made the case for the…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
November 8, 2019 Suzanne C. Shaffer
What began as a routine summer workshop on incorporating games and game-like elements into instruction, turned into a surprise for summer; two weeks of fun and intense online game-play…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
August 26, 2019 Nicole Webber and Stephanie Wiegand
A common practice at many colleges and universities involves course faculty inviting librarians into their classrooms to teach research and information literacy skills and concepts customized to disciplinary or…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
June 17, 2019 Christopher Drew, PhD
Recently, I worked with a research assistant to assess the efficacy of the use of smart phones and tablets in lectures. The study involved asking students to use their…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
June 13, 2019 Anthony R. Sweat, PhD, and Kenneth Alford, PhD
“There’s just not enough time in class with students!” It’s a common faculty complaint and when students are provided quality course materials they can use outside of class, this…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
April 26, 2019 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
In the previous two articles, I shared ideas to address student accountability and student preparation in the flipped classroom. Based on your feedback and emails, getting students to come…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
March 25, 2019 Robert Talbert, PhD
In a flipped learning model of teaching, students get first contact with new ideas not during class time but in structured independent activities done prior to class time. This…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Faculty Development
July 30, 2018 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
Faculty everywhere are flipping their classes, but can we flip faculty development? That’s the question I asked myself when I flipped the pre-conference workshop at the 2016 Teaching Professor…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
April 23, 2018 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
A 2015 survey of Faculty Focus readers found that the number one barrier preventing faculty from implementing the flipped classroom model and other active learning experiences into their courses…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
February 28, 2018 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
I keep worrying that we’re missing the boat with active learning. Here’s why. First, active learning isn’t about activity for the sake of activity. I fear we’ve gotten too…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
August 21, 2017 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
What would happen if you were to arrive to your classroom, unplug the devices, turn off the projector, and step away from the PowerPoint slides … just for the…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design
May 19, 2017 Jason Guzman
Silvia Martins, an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology in Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, faced a challenge in her introductory epidemiology course, Principles of Epidemiology.…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
February 17, 2017 Anthony R. Sweat, PhD, and Kenneth Alford, PhD
“There’s just not enough time in class with students!” It’s a common faculty complaint, and when students are provided quality course materials they can use outside class, this blended…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
January 23, 2017 Sarah McLean, PhD
One of the challenges of the flipped classroom is building meaningful connections between the pre-work and the in-class sessions. Opponents of the flipped classroom argue that information overload can…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
September 26, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
Throughout this summer article series, we’ve addressed some of the most frequently asked questions about the flipped classroom in higher education. We’ve shared ideas for student motivation, student engagement,…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
August 22, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
As we continue our ongoing series focused on the flipped classroom in higher education, it’s time to tackle another frequently asked question: “How can I flip a large class?”…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
July 11, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
A few months ago, I heard a podcast by Michael Hyatt, a best-selling author and speaker who helps clients excel in their personal and professional lives. This particular podcast…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
June 13, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
In this ongoing series focused on flipped and active-learning classrooms, we’re taking a deeper look into how to create successful learning experiences for students. We’ve examined how to encourage…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
April 22, 2016 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
“Enabling interaction in a large class seems an insurmountable task.” That’s the observation of a group of faculty members in the math and physics department at the University of…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
April 4, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
In the previous article “Ready to Flip: Three Ways to Hold Students Accountable for Pre-Class Work,” I mentioned that one of the most frequently asked questions about the flipped…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
March 9, 2016 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
Most of us think we know what active learning is. The word engagement quickly comes to mind. Or, we describe what it isn’t: passive learning. Definitions also abound. The…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
January 25, 2016 Barbi Honeycutt, PhD
One of the most frequent questions faculty ask about the flipped classroom model is: “How do you encourage students to actually do the pre-class work and come to class…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
August 24, 2015 Mary Bart
Perhaps no other word has been as popular in higher education during the past few years as the term “flipped.” As a result, there is no shortage of ideas…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Educational Assessment
August 10, 2015 Robert Talbert, PhD
Flipped learning environments offer unique opportunities for student learning, as well as some unique challenges. By moving direct instruction from the class group space to the individual students’ learning…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Educational Assessment
June 15, 2015 Susan Spangler PhD
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’re already aware that flipped instruction has become the latest trend in higher education classrooms. And for good reason. As it…
In Blended and Flipped Learning
June 3, 2015 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
The June-July issue of The Teaching Professor newsletter highlights a study you don’t want to miss. It’s a meta-analysis of 225 studies that compare STEM classes taught using various…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Teaching with Technology
May 15, 2015 Sarohini Chahal
Professor Philip LaRocco is reimagining his Energy Business and Economic Development course with digitized lecture materials, collaborative assignments, and real-time feedback. With funding from Columbia University’s Office of the…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Effective Teaching Strategies
March 2, 2015 Robert Talbert, PhD
The flipped learning model of instruction has begun to make the transition from an educational buzzword to a normative practice among many university instructors, and with good reason. Flipped…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Online Education
November 20, 2014 Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti
Blended learning has gone from being an interesting new hybrid of traditional and online courses to being an expected part of American education. When the Sloan Consortium last studied…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Teaching with Technology
August 4, 2014 Ike Shibley, PhD
Passivity still seems to be the norm for most college courses: students passively try to learn information from teachers who unwittingly cultivate a passive attitude in their learners. As…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design, Educational Assessment
July 23, 2014 Oliver Dreon, PhD
A few weeks ago, a colleague emailed me about some trouble she was having with her first attempt at blended instruction. She had created some videos to pre-teach a…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Teaching and Learning
July 16, 2014 Mary Bart
When it comes to technology in the classroom, phrases like “faculty resistance” and the importance of getting “faculty buy-in” are tossed around with great frequency. But is that perception…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Online Education
March 31, 2014 Barbi Honeycutt PhD and Sarah Glova
We recently asked a group of teaching assistants, “How do you think today’s college classroom is different than when you were an undergraduate student? What is the most significant…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design
February 17, 2014 Barbi Honeycutt PhD and Sarah Egan Warren
“Students in inverted classrooms need to have more space to reflect on their learning activities so that they can make necessary connections to course content” (Strayer, 2012). If you…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design
January 31, 2014 Barbi Honeycutt PhD and Jennifer Garrett
The term flipped classroom has become a hot topic in higher education. Ideas about and opinions about flipped learning environments vary. Some consider it simply another way of talking…
In Blended and Flipped Learning, Course Design, Teaching with Technology
December 12, 2013 Rob Kelly
Blended learning entails more than simply replacing class time with online course elements or supplementing an online course with face-to-face meetings. To be successful, the online and face-to-face modes…
