tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380733575762269367.post2371270994822575530..comments2016-03-18T18:33:01.463-07:00Comments on Science, Food, Etc.: Flipping with a MOOC-- A very new approach to teaching for meAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03212628642283844865noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4380733575762269367.post-27287890823992387162013-08-13T02:47:57.342-07:002013-08-13T02:47:57.342-07:00Nice writeup from the perspective of someone who i...Nice writeup from the perspective of someone who is re-purposing their own MOOC. I've been wrapping on-campus courses around MOOCs by others (and producing my own content) to flip my classes, and its quite enjoyable as well. I got tired of lecturing from powerpoint a long time ago. I feel more agile in a flipped context.<br /><br />As with your experience, there are a few students who seem to persist in a dislike of the approach and at least some of them seem to be those whose learning style is genuinely better attuned to a traditional lecture style, but on the whole the flipped approach seems better suited to most students.<br /><br />Also, your low attendance rates are not a phenomena I've experienced, but then I've required attendance (with flexibility) using an opening graded quiz or a graduated scheme (https://my.vanderbilt.edu/cs265/course-organization/ ) that increasingly weights missed classes. I am ambivalent about such schemes, because why shouldn't students be allowed to skip class if the "get it", but I believe students (including me) don't suffer (and benefit I think) from being asked to GIVE to a learning community (justifying a requirement to attend), as well as benefiting from it. In general, the database course referenced here explored ways of insuring an active local learning community in the context of a global MOOC, while still allowing flexibility of when students would attend "class" <br /><br />While the database (and an AI) class strongly coupled in-class and on-line content, a class that more loosely coupled across in-class and online is reported here: https://my.vanderbilt.edu/douglasfisher/files/2013/06/JOLTPaperFinal6-9-2013.pdf . Again, this is an instance of wrapping an on-campus course around an existing MOOC. It was also my experience in this machine learning class (and the database class) that students did NOT use the MOOC discussion boards much, but relied much more heavily on the local learning community.Doug Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836423450316846200noreply@blogger.com