Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher Education Conference Keynote

1. Questioning the
Lecture?
SIMON LANCASTER
UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA

2. What do you expect me to cover?
A. Social Media
B. Lecture Capture
C. Student Engagement
D. Massive open online
courses
E. Quantum mechanics
simulations
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Lecture Capture
Student Engagement
Social Media
Massive open online courses
Quantum mechanics simulations

3. You Tweet, we’ll Storify, Everyone Wins

4. The objectives of our education system
are to develop
A. critical thinking
B. problem solving skills
C. interpersonal skills
D. the ability to retain information long
enough to pass examinations
E. logical and independent thought
F. communication and information
management skills
G. intellectual curiosity
H. creativity
I. ethical awareness, integrity and
tolerance
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critical thinking
problem solving skills
interpersonal skills
intellectual curiosity
logical and independent thought
the ability to retain informatio...
communication and informat...
creativity
ethical awareness, integrity an...

5. In Defense of the Lecture?

6. More than anecdotal evidence
• Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles McDonough, Michelle
K. Smith, Nnadozie Okoroafor, Hannah Jordt, and Mary Pat
Wenderoth Active learning increases student performance
in science, engineering, and mathematics PNAS 2014 ;
published ahead of print May 12, 2014,
doi:10.1073/pnas.131903011

7. Freshers 'forget 60% of their A-level
studies'
• “Secondary education has become increasingly
politicised, which involves greater emphasis on testing and
results of tests” Dr Harriet Jones, University of East Anglia

8. Which of the these might be addressed
during peer instruction within a flipped
lecture?
A. critical thinking
B. problem solving skills
C. interpersonal skills
D. the ability to retain information long
enough to pass examinations
E. logical and independent thought
F. communication and information
management skills
G. intellectual curiosity
H. creativity
I. ethical awareness, integrity and
tolerance
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critical thinking
problem solving skills
interpersonal skills
intellectual curiosity
logical and independent thought
the ability to retain informatio...
communication and informat...
creativity
ethical awareness, integrity an...

9. How should we incentivize students to
prepare for flipped lectures?
A. ……………………
B. ……………………
C. ……………………
D. ……………………
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10. What should we do to cater for students who
haven’t prepared for their interactive contact
hour?
A. ……………………
B. ……………………
C. ……………………
D. ……………………
25% 25% 25% 25%
……………………
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11. Flipping: A Concept not a Recipe
• Choose an open
educational
resource (OER)?
• Ask students to
prepare a ScoopIt?
• Screencast?
Preparation
Engagement
• Challenge your
students
• Student source your
questions and your
answers?
• React to events

12. The attributes of a good screencast are
the same as those of a good lecture
A.True
B. False
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True
False

13. ScoopIt

14. What is the objective of a question
posed during a flipped session?

15. Who has done the most to advance the
cause of education?
A. Michael Gove
B. Tina Overton
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Michael Gove
Tina Overton

16. You’re putting a band together. Who
should you put on guitar?
A. Michael Grove
B. Tony Blair
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Michael Grove
Tony Blair

17. The Goldilocks Zone

18. Who is best placed to determine
the Goldilocks Zone?

19. Student Sourcing Questions?
• Be open to students suggestions
• Encourage students to submit questions to use within
flipped sessions
• Use Peerwise to structure, screen and select questions in
the sweet spot for peer instruction
• Seek answers from students and even draft new questions
‘on the hoof’

20. A ball of nylon is floating on dichloromethane. When
sufficient water is poured over the dichloromethane to
cover it, the ball
A. Moves up
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B. Stays at the same height
C. Moves down
Moves up
Stays at the same height
Moves down
Nylon has a density of 1.1 g cm-3, water 1.0 g cm-3 and dichloromethane 1.3 g cm-3

21. What happens next?

22. The Question is Key

23. What is the default copyright status of everything
published on the internet?
Your work is automatically protected under copyright!

24. Alternative copyright Licensing

25. Open Educational Resources (OERs)

26. ChemTube3D

27. Symmetry at Otterbein

28. Conclusions Suggestions
• Cut your content in half
• Ask what you are adding by expecting your students to
attend
• Question everything, especially the questions
• Seek (possible) answers from the floor
• Relinquish as much control as possible and enjoy the ride

29. Acknowledgements
• The Variety in Chemistry Education and Physics Higher
Education Conference Communities
• Higher Education Academy
• Higher Education Science Technology Engineering and
Mathematics
• University of East Anglia

30. Thanks to
@BradScienceFest