Dear Hsu,

thank you very much for the tip. I will look into it.

Regards,

Mariela

Dear Mariela, 

Please look at this page, and at the bottom you will find some interesting statistics and results of flipped class implementation

http://www.knewton.com/flipped-classroom/

Thank you very much Nasim :)

Yes, I have flipped the classroom (mostly) at college-level software development. I still give short lectures, actually having the students reading the powerpoints so they don't have to listen to me always talk. I comment during the student readings. Then daily there is a small (sometimes group) assignment in class, due at the end of class, no late submissions. Lots of linux-familiarity-type assignments in class to help the student and then larger weekly assignments for the bulk of the course. This semester I will be adding questions to be answered during the powerpoint readings forcing students to pay more attention (challenge !).

Thank you for sharing your experience Ronald. Quick question, have you tried to have your students first investigate, read/watch or work out something at home in preparation to the class project or assignment? That is like an "inverted homework assignment", pre not post.

For example, last week I had them draw and describe the Network/Internet settings at home in their own words before even touching the topic of Networking. I also asked them to think how smartphones connect to the Internet. Then in class a couple of students presented their findings and from there we took it to the discussion and explanation levels. Then they read a couple of Information slides and in Groups, they were asked to analize a Business Scenario and to apply their "newly acquired knowledge" to describe and design a possible Network for it. Would that be "an inverted classroom Scenario"? Glad to hear opinions!