“Flipping L” pre-session material
The idea of Flipped Learning is not a new one and it essentially refers to providing pre-session materials and activities for the students to work through prior to attending the live/classroom session. This ‘flips’ the common approach to teaching where the new information is covered in the live session and the students do work to consolidate their learning afterwards. Flipped Learning is based on the idea that more value can be gained from using the live session to consolidate learning and explore the new information rather than the students needing to do this in their own time.
In order to increase engagement and to assist the student in reflecting on what they’ve learned, we’d recommend that you have a short activity that requires the students to think about the new material. Ideally, this activity would take a form that would allow you to review students’ understanding prior to the live session, such as a short Blackboard or Panopto quiz, contributing to a Padlet board, shared Google document, posting in a Blackboard or Teams discussion, or completing a reflection in PebblePad.
In the live session we will be discussing some of the practicalities of Flipped Learning, but we want to give you a simple Flipped Learning experience in advance. We have created a video that introduces a reading strategy, SQ3R, that is particularly well suited to Flipped Learning because it emphasises comprehension and so is extremely well suited to situations where you would want your students to read a text so that you can have a discussion about it in the live session. The video was created in Panopto and we have embedded a video from YouTube and a quiz/survey to illustrate how you might use the tools available to simplify the process of making your pre-sessional materials and also how you can get some feedback on student understanding of the material prior to the live session.
After you have watched the video, please add some thoughts about Flipped Learning to the Padlet wall. This could be a short sentence, a relevant image, a short audio recording, a question, etc. We will review these posts prior to the live session and use them to inform what we cover.