ENG.

2116-090
TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

To: Whom it may concern

Subject: Request for all CCI (College of Computing and Informatics) courses to be
Flipped Classrooms

PROBLEM
This proposal is asking to make all courses in the College of Computing and
Informatics a flipped classroom; meaning that instead of standard lectures, then
practice assignments at home, instead students are required to have already
studied the material, and come to class to do an exercise activity with the teacher.
This is an extremely important, and very easy to implement project because past
studies have shown that students in the CCI department are not getting enough
practice and time with professors to work on assignments.
Students and teachers alike are wasting valuable and costly time in the
classrooms listening to lectures that could be done at home, and online. My
request for these classrooms are to be lab based only is relevant because with
each year that passes by more students are graduating with not enough skills to
go into the real world, and especially not enough practice in tech related activities
such as (Programming, Software Testing, Database design, etc)

OBJECTIVES
Goal: Students are able to get really comfortable with topics in the IT field, and be
able to learn how to be logical over their academic life in college.
The solution to this problem can be achieved by these features:
1) Eliminate stand at the front lectures, instead teachers work side by side
with students.

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2) Every class must have an activity that is solvable during the required time of
75 minutes.
3) Every class must have a teacher assistant present to assist with any
problems that may arise during the activity.
4) Students are required to take a quiz and watch videos at home before they
come to class to work on the activity.
5) All students must bring laptop to class if the classroom is not a lab, if they do
not have one then the CCI department must loan one for that class period.
6) All tables must have working outlets.

SOLUTION
What I plan to implement will be that students are able to do assignments,
and practice algorithms inside the classroom with their peers, and the professor.
They will no longer be just the spectator to topics that are impossible to just to, but
finally have the opportunity to practice over and over again with exercises that will
increase in difficulty over the course of the semester so that by the end they are
able to confident about their skill set in that IT field.

CHART SCHEDULE
Task

Start Date

Duration

End Date

1. Proposal
Approval

11-Nov

1wk

1-Dec

2. Add outlets in
classrooms on
weekends
when there
are no
classes.

1-Dec

1wk

7-Dec

3. Buy and label

the best
estimated
number of
laptops for
students in
need to
borrow

1-Dec

1wk

7-Dec

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4. Meet with all
teachers to
plan out
exercises that
will be done in
class.

8-Dec

2wk

15-Dec

5. Meet with all

teachers to
discuss best
material/tutori
als to put on
Moodle
webpage

8-Dec

3wk

26-Dec

6. Hire teacher
assistants to
be put in
every CCI
course.

1-Jan

1wk

8-Jan

7. Send out
memo to all
students
stating the
objectives of
this new
implementatio
n into
classrooms

1-Jan

1 wks.

8-Jan

8. Send out
survey at end
of semester to
get feedback
on new
implementatio
n.

15-April

2wk

12-May

Total Time: 12 weeks

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QUALIFICATIONS
My qualifications to propose this project as well as to assist are because I am
a 4th year student at UNC Charlotte, and have experienced many difficulties in
grasping my computer science courses. I have gotten feedback from many
students about the inefficient lectures, and their approval on this project.
Also because I have always been looking for help, and better ways of being
taught a subject as well as practicing online., I can be of assistance in helping to
find the most helpful material on the Moodle web page that will help students
become familiar with the topic before they get a chance to sit down in class to
practice it.

ESTIMATE
*Estimates of costs accounting for labor and material

Item

$Price

1. Outlets (4 per
desk)
2. Laptops
3. Teacher lunch
for project
meetings
4. Teacher
Assistants per
class time +
tutoring times
5. Survey Paper
(ream of 500
sheets)

Total

Quantity
0.50

650

325.00

80.00
10.00

250
50

20,000.00
500.00

9.00

40

360.00

25.00

50.00

124.5
124.50

My sincere appreciation for your time,

$Total

992

$21,235
.00

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P.S. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at:
BetterTechLearning@uncc.edu.br