Exchanging ideas on how to create engaging online courses and sharing best practices I learned from designing 7 courses at Rasmussen College.

1. Designing a Flipped
Classroom – Best Practices
Keitaro Matsuoka
Rasmussen College
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2. Agenda
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Background
Goals
What You Need
Approach
Best Practices
Glue
Q&A (File Location)
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3. Background
• Rasmussen College (www.rasmussen.edu)
– Developmental Math and Business Instructor, both
residentially and online.
• Idea initiated from writing an online stats course.
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4. Goals Today
1. Describe 3 Components of a Flipped Classroom.
2. Approach to Designing a Flipped Class Session.
3. Share Best Practices.
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5. Ingredients
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6. Students
• Motivated.
• Well informed of structure or have experience.
• Far along in their study.
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7. Instructors
• Embrace inverted nature.
• Technologically adaptable.
• Have your own workflow.
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8. Course Design
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“Untext” the textbook.
Clear set of objectives.
Digestible lesson blocks.
Content
– Mix of written and visual
materials
– Examples
– Discussions
– Optional Paper
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9. Approach to Flipped
Design
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10. In Summary…
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11. Steps
1. Think “Relevant Simple
Intricate.”
2. Visualize “mastery blocks.”
3. Generate comprehensive
examples.
4. Assessment.
5. End with lead to next topic.
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12. Keep These In Mind
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Your engagement matters.
Student engagement matters.
Keep it short.
One size does not fit all.
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13. Best Practices
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14. Lectures
• Blocks
• Video
• Web resources
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15. Discussions
• Common reasons why students don’t
participate and action plan
– No posting at all
• Set an example early
• Give rubric
– Have nothing to add
• Cheerleading
• Personal stories
– Technical difficulties
• Get school support information
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16. Discussions
• More reasons and remedies
– Communication style mismatch
• Remove offensive posts
• Individually contact student
– Scheduling conflict
• Have more than 1 deadline
(one midweek and one weekend)
• Interesting topic
– Just not into it…
• Instructor interaction
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17. The Glue That Holds It All
Together
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18. Preparation!
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Start with end in mind.
Divide and Conquer.
Set clear expectations.
Cheerlead.
Experiment!
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19. One More Thing…
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20. Web Resources
• Chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com
• Casting Out Nines
chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/
• Debbie Morrison
onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com/
• Google and YouTube
www.google.com, www.youtube.com
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21. Questions?
Keitaro.Matsuoka@Rasmussen.edu or
(815) 306-2657
www.linkedin.com/in/keitaro
www.slideshare.net/KeitaroMatsuoka
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