This document discusses the flipped classroom approach used in fundamentals of physics courses at the National University of Singapore. It provides an overview of how the courses are structured, including online lecture videos created using screencasting software, online assignments through Mastering Physics, and in-class activities using a Google-based classroom response system. The document also discusses best practices for creating high-quality online lecture videos, including effective use of images, simulations, narration, annotation, and other techniques.

1. Flipped Classroom in
Fundamentals of Physics Courses
Andreas Dewanto
Email: andreas.dewanto@nus.edu.sg
Physics Department, National University of Singapore
Block S13, 2 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117551
8th Physics Instructional Program Support Group Sharing @ National Junior College

2. Outlines & Objectives
• How it started: why I
decided to flip my class.
• How I do it: how to
make an engaging online
lectures and how I
engage my students
inside and outside the
classroom.
• How it will go:
Technology-enhanced
learning for gen-Y
learners and our role as
teachers/lecturers
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3. Some History…
• 2012: Coursera was founded by computer science
professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford
University as a MOOC1 platform (ref: Wikipedia).
• 2013: NUS made a deal with Coursera.
• Jan 2014: NUS launched global as well as internal courses
(a.k.a. IBLOC2) for the first time.
• Jan 2015: Fundamentals of Physics 1 was offered as an
IBLOC to regular students and NS-men for the first time.
• Jan 2016: Fundamentals of Physics 2 is offered as an IBLOC
to NS-men for the first time. 2nd run of FOP1.
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1 MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
2 IBLOC: Internal Blended Learning Online Course
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4. Concerns
Ref: November, A. (2012). Flipped learning: a response to five common criticisms.
Retrieve from: novemberlearning.com/educational-resources-for-educators/teaching-
and-learning-articles/flipped-learning-a-response-to-five-common-criticisms-article/
“Most of my kids do not even have internet access at
home.”
“Where is the accountability? How do I even know if
kids are watching the videos?”
“As a teacher, I don’t have the time or the expertise
to produce all of the videos required to teach like
this.”
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5. Fundamentals of Physics
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6. Background of the Courses
• Description: it is a bridging course for engineering,
science, and computing students with no A-level
background in physics. No calculus is involved.
• Topics:
• FOP1: kinematics, dynamics, rigid
body mechanics, fluid physics, and
thermal physics
• FOP2: electricity, magnetism, optics,
quantum physics, and nuclear physics
• Class size:
• Regular: 30 to 40
• NS-men: < 20
• Timeline:
• Regular: 13 weeks (January to April), exam in May
• NS-men: 20 weeks (January to May), exam in June
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7. Assessment in Both Courses
• Lecture-videos: delivered via Coursera platform
• Online Assignment (10%): using Mastering Physics
to test students’ comprehension of lecture-videos.
• Class Participation (5%): continual engagement in
class through active participation and peer-
learning, e.g. student discussion and presentation,
in-class quizzes with Google.
• Laboratory (20%): data analysis, lab conduct and
lab report
• Mid-semester Test (15%): 20 multiple-choice
questions
• Final exam (50%): 5 long structured questions
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10. Screencasting My Lecture
using Camtasia Studio
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Pre-
production
• Source & obtain necessary permit for the use of various media.
• Design the slide in 16:9 format.
• Apply slide animation and transition.
• Write down the narration for each slide.
Production
Post-
production
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12. Sources for High-quality Images
• Recommended text (obtain prior approval)
• Openclipart (openclipart.org/)
• Wikimedia Common
(commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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13. Narration
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Write down your narration:
- Reduce fillers (“er”, “uhm”)
- Reduce excessive use of
adverbs (“actually”,
“basically”)
- Serve as subtitles
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Having subtitle is highly-
recommended even if you
are speaking perfect
English.

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Pre-
production
• Obtain necessary permit for the use of various media.
• Design the slide in 16:9 format.
• Apply slide animation and transition.
• Write down the narration for each slide.
Production
• Record the slide and narration in recording studio.
• Record the simulation and the slide separately.
Post-
production
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15. Camtasia Studio
www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html
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Powerpoint slide Simulation
Powerpoint slide with simulation
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17. Sources for Good Simulations/
Visualization Tools
• PhET Interactive simulations by
University of Colorado Boulder
(phet.colorado.edu/)
• Wolfram CDF Demonstrations
(demonstrations.wolfram.com/)
• Open Source Physics
(www.opensourcephysics.org)
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Pre-
production
• Obtain necessary permit for the use of various media.
• Design the slide in 16:9 format.
• Apply slide animation and transition.
• Write down the narration for each slide.
Production
• Record the slide and narration in a recording studio.
• Record the simulation separately.
Post-
production
• Cut, fuse and edit the scenes.
• Apply annotation, zooming and masking.
• Apply subtitle (from the narration).
• Upload to internet (e.g. Youtube, Coursera, any CMS).
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19. Annotation
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Avoid having static display
for too long. This is a video.
Video should involve
motion frequently. Or else,
it won’t be different than
reading from slide.

20. Zoom In/Out
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21. Mask/Filter
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Annotation, zooming and
masking is a powerful way
to retain and direct
students’ attention as they
go through the videos.
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22. Some advice…
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Ref: Philip J. Guo, Juho Kim, and Rob Rubin. 2014. How video production affects
student engagement: an empirical study of MOOC videos. In Proceedings of the first
ACM conference on Learning @ scale conference (L@S '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA,
41-50. DOI=10.1145/2556325.2566239.
Ref: Mayer, R. E. 2015, March. Research-based Principles for Multimedia Instruction.
Keynote address presented at the Coursera Partners’ Conference, Newport Beach, CA.
Segment videos into short chunks, invest in pre-production effort, etc
Some principles to keep in mind when designing lecture slides
… “Kids do not want to sit at home watching boring video lectures on the Web. At
least in the classroom, they get some kind of interaction with me and with their
peers” …
Ref: November, A. (2012). Flipped learning: a response to five common criticisms.
Learn from edutainment channels (e.g. Nat Geo, Discovery, etc)
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23. Mastering Physics
for Online Assignment
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24. Mastering Physics
www.masteringphysics.com
integrated to the recommended text
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25. Check the Score
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Quickly identify students who are
having trouble.
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26. Analytics of Students’ Performance
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provides various analytics of
individual students’ and overall
performance in each
assignment, e.g.
- how long each student takes
to complete the assignment,
- how individual’s performance
fares against overall
performance,
- which question most students
get it wrong, etc
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I promote the use of analytics to enhance teaching and learning.

27. Google-based Classroom
Response System
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engaging Students inside the Classroom

28. tinyurl.com/nus-seminar-form
Survey on Flipped Classroom
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29. • Google Form
The Interface
• Google Spreadsheet
The Database
• HTML and Javascript code
The Engine
• Internet Browser
The Visualization
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30. tinyurl.com/google-crs-ver1
Features (version 1):
• Loading the APIs
• Querying the Spreadsheet
• Drawing pie-chart and
column-chart to the browser
More features (version 2):
• Drawing table to the browser
• Updating the table and
charts on real-time basis
• Reporting error (if any)
during querying
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Ref: A. Dewanto (2015) Google-based Classroom Response System. EDULEARN 2015
Proceedings
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31. Evernote & Hangout
engaging Students outside the Classroom
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33. Students don’t necessarily have to learn from us!
Food for Thought
Will flipped classroom (and its “derivatives”, e.g.
technology-enhanced learning, MOOC, etc) become
a norm?
What is our role?
Does online lecture inculcates bad habit of learning?
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Yes!
Teacher/Lecturer Facilitator
“Bad” is relative. I think being mobile and flexible is
crucial, even in teaching and learning.