Flipping the Classroom (Reverse Instruction)

The New TED-Ed YouTube Channel and Website Provide Powerful Capabilities For Teaching

May 16, 2012

TED-Ed combines excellent content with innovative features to deliver a powerful resource for today’s educators. Earlier this month, educators and technology advocates across the world were delighted by the launch of the new “TED-Ed” YouTube channel devoted exclusively to educational content. After just two short weeks, the channel already has 50,000+ subscribers and over a [...]

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The Flipped Classroom is Hot, Hot, Hot

April 29, 2012

Reverse instruction is a hot news topic these days. Here’s 15 news stories from the last month about flipping the classroom. There are news stories and web articles about reverse instruction, or ‘flipping the classroom’, published just about every day lately. Here’s 15 news stories from the last 4 weeks focused on this instructional technology [...]

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Exploring the Khan Academy’s use of Learning Data and Learning Analytics

April 22, 2012

More than just a popular producer of excellent tutorials, Khan Academy is also leveraging data to enable teachers to assess progress and focus on individual student needs. I’ve been intending to learn more about how the Khan Academy is incorporating learning data and analytics into their tool set for a while now, and this weekend [...]

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Is Reverse Instruction Education Technology’s Perfect Storm?

April 8, 2012

Flipping the classroom is a technology-enabled technique that can make a significant difference in student learning and academic success, and is well suited for gradual widespread adoption. Having been immersed in the world of education and instructional technologies for a good number of years now, I often think about which technologies can truly make a [...]

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Enabling the Flipped Classroom with Evolving Software Solutions

March 7, 2012

Guest Post by Louis Malenica In a way, we are all experts in education. It is one area in which we may each claim extensive experience. We all spent many years in school, and now we all read, write, calculate and basically get along in the world, regardless of our level of formal attainment. And [...]

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Reverse Instruction Tools And Techniques (Part 3) – Using Existing Web Based Educational Content

February 19, 2012

In the last two weeks, we’ve checked out ways to put content that you’ve already created online, and expanding on that content with screencasting tools, so you can give the ‘flipped classroom’ a try. This week we consider the vast array of engaging educational media available on the Internet, which can provide an easy way [...]

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Reverse Instruction Tools And Techniques (Part 2) – Screencasting

February 12, 2012

Adding voice-over and other enhancements to lecture materials and putting them online to give the ‘flipped classroom’ a try. This is the second in a series of articles examining software tools and methods for placing and using learning materials online, or distributing them via other digital methods, so that instructors who wish to can have [...]

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Reverse Instruction Tools And Techniques (Part 1)

February 5, 2012

Applications and methods for creating and delivering digital course materials, so you can experiment with flipping the classroom. Over the last 6 months, I’ve researched and written a number of articles about Reverse Instruction. I’ve also lectured on the subject and am looking forward to presenting at The College of Westchester later this month, and [...]

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Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own

January 18, 2012

Guest writer Samantha Peters brings us an excellent selection of educational video resources. Information is abundant online. The problem is sorting out the useful stuff from the overwhelming amount of junk that exists on the World Wide Web. Educators are all too familiar with the unreliable nature of information found on the web, and most [...]

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Reverse Instruction – A Tale Of Two Students and Active Skill Learning

December 18, 2011

A look at the learning science behind flipping the classroom, through the lens of a fictional tale. Last week we were introduced to Kieran Mathieson and the CoreDogs approach to the flipped classroom. This week we further explore the resources Mathieson has made available through CoreDogs, and how to leverage Reverse Instruction techniques to improve student learning outcomes. Kieran has [...]

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