2. Why a Community of Practice (CoP) for
Flipped Classroom (FC) ?
Community of Practice
Ø Lave & Wenger, 1991
Flipped Classroom
Ø sector-scanning reports (Sharples, et.al. 2014, NMC 2014,
… )
Ø UoG lecturers have a growing interest in FC
Ø Agents of change (UoG + Partner College staff)
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3. Facilitator and the community
Institutional community of practice as opposed to
existing cross-sector communities
(Flipping the Classroom Resources at Diigo.com)
Role of the facilitator
Ø Participation encouragement?
Ø Resource collector?
Ø Others?
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5. Basecamp survey snap
12%
50%
19%
19%
How do you rate Basecamp as
a platform to support the
community?
very useful useful not especially useful not at all useful
7%
48%31%
14%
Are you a member of the CoP ?
Yes I am an active member (e.g. participate in discussions, read
articles that are proposed)
Yes, I am a community member but haven't been participating
lately
No but I would like to become a member
No, I am not interested (Please give reasons)
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The Greenwich Connect team are planning to launch a short online course on Flipped
Classroom. Would you be interested in participating in such a course ?
62% said yes whereas 38% said no.
6. Basecamp survey snap
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Are there any improvements we should make to Basecamp to increase
members' engagement?
e.g: - improve the interface and/or navigation (in what ways?); - suggest
more events; - provide more resources; - increase activity from members
(please suggest ways of achieving this) - other suggestions …
Sample answers:
Ø “ … more engagement from other members …”
Ø “Twitter” ; “The difficulty in all this is time to engage. “
Ø “I wonder if Google may be better, perhaps to hold group hangouts in
the evenings?”
Ø “ … It would help to have more CoP focus meetings …”
Flip side – a number of individual projects
7. References and the abstract:
References:
Bergmann, J. & Sams, A. (2008) “Remixing Chemistry Class,” Learning &
Leading with Technology 36(4), 22–27.
Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral
Participation in Communities of Practice, Cambridge University Press, New
York.
NMC (2014) Horizon Report 2014: Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas:
The New Media Consortium
Sharples, M., Adams, A., Ferguson, R., Gaved, M., McAndrew, P., Rienties,
B., Weller, M., Whitelock, D. (2014) Innovating Pedagogy 2014: Open
University Innovation Report 3. The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
Link to the presentation abstract:
https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2015/sessions/developing-an-institutional-community-of-
practice-for-flipped-classroom-pedagogies-835/
