An overview of low-cost and low-effort methods of creating online content to facilitate blended learning.

1. Low-cost methods for flipping
your classroom!
Brian Mulligan
Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland.
GMIT, 2ndMay, 2017.
moocs4all.eu

3. Flipped Learning
• Content delivered before class
– Reading, videos etc.
• “Homework” in class
– Discussions, problems (application)

4. Will students access the content
before class?
• NO!
• Not unless you check.
• Verifiable pre-class
activity
• Quiz
– Must be taken before
class

5. “Prerequisites”
for flipping your module
• You already teach it f2f
• You are happy with the structure
– Learning Objectives
– Content aligned with learning objectives
• You are comfortable with IT
– You use online services (Ryanair, Moodle..)
– You use PC applications (Word, Powerpoint)
– You use email
• You are a moderately competent presenter

6. Things you might have in your module!
• Learning Objects
– Reading (Word, pdf etc)
– Video
– Simulations?
• Open Educational Resources
– Link to them
• Create your own
• Simple quizzes

7. Videos
• Popular
• Effective
• Engaging
– Presenter?
– Length?
• Cheap and easy to create
– If you know how
– Manage expectations
• Screen capture
– Slides, demonstrations, "whiteboard"
• Video
– Headshot?, real "blackboard"

8. Video Tools
• Recording and editing
• Personal
– Camtasia,
– Snagit
– Youtube Live (Hangouts on Air)
• Institutional – Lecture capture
–Panopto (IT Sligo)
–Conferencing system – Adobe Connect?
• Video hosting?
– Moodle?, Server?, Youtube?

9. Classroom

10. Recording Booth

11. Lightboard

12. Recording Techniques
• Good Powerpoint technique
• Less is more
• Images
• Animation
• Draw on your slides?
• Minimise editing
– Prepare well
– Present to an audience?

13. Autograded “objective” tests
• E.g. Multiple choice quizzes
• Reliability? Validity? Motivation?
• For speed
–Edit in Word
–GIFT format
–import into Moodle

14. GIFT Format
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15. moocs4all.eu
• Collection and dissemination of low-cost methods
• Website and Community Forum
• MOOC: “Making MOOCs on a Budget”
The Team
Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland
Technical University of Delft, Holland
Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany
University of Girona, Spain
Bath Spa University, UK
LoCoMoTion Project

16. Thanks
Thanks for listening – over to you!
moocs4all.eu
mulligan.brian@itsligo.ie