This webinar discussed flipped/flex learning. It defined flipped learning as transmitting instruction outside of class, such as through videos, and using class time for student assimilation of the material through higher-order thinking activities. The webinar provided examples of open educational resources like YouTube, Merlot, and Wolfram Alpha that can be used to engage students outside of class. It emphasized that students and faculty may need to adjust to this new style of active, student-centered learning but that it can improve student outcomes when implemented effectively.

1. Flipped/Flex Learning Webinar
for Ross Education
Facilitator: Dan Petrak
Professor of Mathematics/
Faculty Liaison to Distance Education
Des Moines Area Community College
March 14, 2015

2. Objectives for today’s webinar:
• Define Flipped/Flex Learning
• Talk about ways to use the Ross email system and
Open Educational Resources to begin doing this.
• Find an OER to use with one of your courses.
• Share ideas and reflect on this can impact
learning in and out of class.

3. Think about something you are really good at.
How did you learn it?

4. A Little History
Dr. Eric Mazur at Harvard began researching Flipped Learning in
the 90's and called it "peer instruction“

5. Used by Permission by Dr. Robert Talbert

6. Used by Permission by Dr. Robert Talbert

7. Used by permission by Dr. Leslie Owen Wilson
http://thesecondprinciple.com/teaching-essentials/beyond-bloom-
cognitive-taxonomy-revised/

8. Hot Tips: Visit http://www.scoop.it/t/flipped-classroom-
in-higher-ed and follow #flipclass on Twitter!

9. Elevate thinking with a Flipped/Flex Classroom!
• Increase human interaction (social construction)
• Customize learning based on the learner's needs and style
• Higher levels of learning during class time
• Reduce lecture and passive learning activities during class
time.
• Remember, shift transmission out of class and bring
assimilation into class

10. Become more of a “guide on the side"
instead of a "sage on the stage"
“There must be far less telling on the
part of the teacher, and far more doing
on the part of the student.”
-- Jean Piaget, 1896-1980
Flipped Learning Mantra

11. Chat time
Based on this brief introduction to Flipped/Flex
Learning, please chat in a short description of
this teaching method or idea(s) that stood out
to you.

12. Flipped/Flex Learning
Share an example of a
student centered
learning activity.

13. Where to learn more and network with others
flippedlearning.org

14. What are some this can be done at Ross Education?
• Ross email (use Bcc:)
• Open Educational Resources to engage
students in and out of class.
• Emphasize the aspects of the lessons that
engage students at the higher levels of
Bloom’s Taxonomy

15. Share Best Practices with Email
• Push Communication
• Link to resources
• Answer student questions
• Others…

16. Open Education Resources
• www.youtube.com
• www.merlot.org
• www.wolframalpha.com
• www.quizlet.com
• www.biodigital.com

17. Biodigital https://www.biodigital.com/

18. Quizlet www.quizlet.com

19. Download if you have a Smart Phone
Quizlet

20. Merlot http://www.merlot.org/

21. Merlot http://healthsciences.merlot.org/

22. Wolfram Alpha http://www.wolframalpha.com/

23. Wolfram Alpha Examples
http://www.wolframalpha.com/examples/

24. Time to look around
• Take some time to look at some of the
resource presented.
• Think about how these resources could be
used in a Flipped/Flex scenario
• Be prepared to share one idea or resource

25. In closing…
• If faculty embrace the value and benefit of
Flipped/Flex learning…then so will the
students.

26. In closing…
• If faculty embrace the value and benefit of
Flipped/Flex learning…then so will the
students.
• It is okay to try and fail. That is part of growth
and learning.

27. In closing…
• If faculty embrace the value and benefit of
Flipped/Flex learning…then so will the
students.
• It is okay to try and fail. That is part of growth
and learning.
• This will be new for the students as well.
Change is not easy.

28. In closing…
• If faculty embrace the value and benefit of
Flipped/Flex learning…then so will the students.
• It is okay to try and fail. That is part of growth
and learning.
• This will be new for the students as well. Change
is not easy.
• The goal is better student learning, motivation,
retention.

29. Share your idea(s)…
Based on what you have learned… what will
you do differently?

30. Questions and comments?
Feel free to contact Dan Petrak at
dgpetrak@dmacc.edu