Flipped Classroom

Senior Press Annual Conference for Heads of 6th form
Russell Stannard
Winner of the Times Higher ICT Initiative award
Winner of the British Council Technology award
Winner of Excellence in Teaching & Learning University of Westminster

www.teachertrainingvideos.com

Flipping your classes

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Todays Talk
Information about me (very quick).
Talk about the flipped classroom.
Marketing opportunities.
Change of focus in lectures.
3 great tools.
Thinking beyond the basic idea.

Conclusions.

Russell Stannard
Freelance teacher trainer/speaker.
Part-time lecturer at the University of Warwick and a
NILE associate trainer.
Run www.teachertrainingvideos.com @
Last year 350,000 visitors.
18,000 subscribers to my monthly newsletter.
Being put forward by various institutions/governments as
a model for Continual Professional Development
Provides FREE help videos to show teachers how to use
technology.
New site will run videos on iPad too.

How it started
In 2007 I created www.teachertrainingvideos.com
using Techsmith Camtasia videos.
Step by step help videos for teachers.
Generated enormous interest.
Invites to talks, workshops and conferences.
Realised it was a marketing opportunity.
Could I do the same at the
University of Westminster?
Numbers had dropped to 12 on the MSc Course.
Needed to get more exposure/publicity for the
course.
Had created some support videos.
Decided to release them on the internet with the
domain name www.multimediatrainingvideos.com
Interest in website increased applications.
Then won JISC funding.

Funding
Expansion of videos.
Shared on Vimeo/YouTube.
Blog ( short lived).
Twitter.
Worked hard on Search Engine Optimisation
Large numbers of visitors. Up to 1000 users a
day.
Realised we had opportunity to flip our classes
too with so much content available.

Flipped Experiment
Reduced lecture time to one hour
Increased tutorial time to 3 hours
Students were directed to the training videos

Lectures- reduced and changed
Shift in focus.
Showing more examples.
Focused more on design/layout/navigation.
Much less on the technical aspects.
Students watched the videos in their own time.
Tutorials time increased
Created tutorials for the increased tutorial periods
Task based with specific tasks to be done in each
session
Tutorials built towards the course work
A lot of initial work
Problems with some tutors ( worth discussion)
Very popular with students.
Could focus more on weaker students
Not enough appreciation from the top

Marketing
12,15,17,27
When ALL M level courses were dropping in numbers
Survey showed
-potential students used the site to know about the
course
-students were influenced by the fact we had these
videos
-nearly all students applying were aware of them (25 in
fact)
-15 applicants said that the videos had an
important/very important impact on their decision to
come to Westminster
The tools
www.multimediatrainingvideos
Techsmith Camtasia

Widening the flipped classroom
Present.Me
myBrainShark

You will need somewhere to house your content
Screen capture
JING free
Camtasia (institution)
ScreenR (on-line)
JING
Just does screen capture
Very easy to use
Camtasia (used by Khan)
Allows editing
Integration with real video, call outs, subtitles etc
Present.Me
Very simple and cheap tool to use
Upload PP/Prezi and even Google Docs
Add voice and webcam
Output can be shared, embedded
Other recording options including PP+Audio, just
video etc.
Recordings up to an hour long
Ideal for short lectures
Great for student reflection, pair work/group
discussions etc

myBrainShark
Similar to Present.Me
Not the option of adding webcam
Upload Word, PP, PDF, Pictures, Video, just
podcast
Good compression
Great for short lectures, presentations in the
flipped class mode but also great for students

Example 1 @
Example 2 @
Broadening the flipped class
debate
Visited USA in 2010 as the flipped class idea was
taking off
Met various teachers working on the flipped class
model including Aaron Sams
Discussion around
-How do we make sure the students watch the videos?
-What else do they do but watch videos?
-Who produces all the tutorials?
-Do the teachers need special training?
-What other elements can we add?
-How does it relate to autonomous learning,
independent learning, critical thinking, higher thinking
skills etc?

My contribution
In 2006, my idea on using screen capture for
feedback had resulted in enormous publicity in
the Higher Education sector and various prizes.
Use screen capture to provide feedback to our
students.
Use the feedback in the class for summary
writing, working in groups discussing.

Feedback on an essay @
Feedback on blog @

Research begins
Research in Norway @
Article in the Times Higher @
Article Independent @
Article in the Guardian @
JISC report @
Research in Canada @
Report in the HEA
Research at JISC
Research in Japan
Research at the Open University @
Research at Coventry University
Research at Cardiff Metropolitan

Impacting on Quality
Students like the voice.
Students feel it is more personal.
More information is conveyed.
Feedback can be elaborated on.
Feedback can be very timely.
Like having the teacher sitting next to you.
Multimodal Student learning styles.
Motivating/authentic listening material
Special needs students
Stylistic benefits

Conclusions
Flipped classroom is really just a another model of
blended learning.
Tightly related to the development in
independent/autonomous learning/task
Almost a natural development in the way teaching and
learning is moving
Provided 3 key tools that can be used in a whole range
of scenarios including the flipped classroom.
Interesting from the marketing perspective.
A real mind set shift for a lot of teachers ( especially at
university level)

Flipped classroom resources
Aaron Sams on YouTube
Jonathan Bergman
Interesting blog from teacher who flips classes
Video about a school who has flipped their
classes
A school that completely flipped its teaching.
Help videos for all the tools
demonstrated.
PresentMe @
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/presentme/index.html
Jing @ ( free tool)
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/Jing/index.html
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/jingInReality/index.html
myBrainShark @
http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/brainpod/index.html

Any questions
My site
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