Best Practices for Flipping the College Classroom

Best Practices for Flipping the College Classroom provides a comprehensive overview and systematic assessment of the flipped classroom methodology in higher education. The book: - Reviews various pedagogical theories that inform flipped classroom practice and provides a brief history from its inception in K-12 to its implementation in higher education. - Offers well-developed and instructive case studies chronicling the implementation of flipped strategies across a broad spectrum of academic disciplines, physical environments, and student populations. - Provides insights and suggestions to instructors in higher education for the implementation of flipped strategies in their own courses by offering reflections on learning outcomes and student success in flipped classrooms compared with those employing more traditional models and by describing relevant technologies. - Discusses observations and analyses of student perceptions of flipping the classroom as well as student practices and behaviors particular to flipped classroom models. - Illuminates several research models and approaches for use and modification by teacher-scholars interested in building on this research on their own campuses. The evidence presented on the flipped classroom methodology by its supporters and detractors at all levels has thus far been almost entirely anecdotal or otherwise unreliable. Best Practices for Flipping the College Classroom is the first book to provide faculty members nuanced qualitative and quantitative evidence that both supports and challenges the value of flipping the college classroom.

Julee B. Waldrop is Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. Melody A. Bowdon is Executive Director of the Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Joining the Flipped Classroom Conversation Erin Saitta, Brett Morrison, Julee B. Waldrop, and Melody A. Bowdon 2 Flipping a Large First-Year Chemistry Class: Same-Semester Comparison with a Traditionally Taught Large-Lecture Class Cherie Yestrebsky 3 Flipped Calculus: A Gateway to Lifelong Learning in Mathematics Robert Talbert 4 Flipping the Graduate Course in Nursing: Application to Solve Patients' Health Problems Julee B. Waldrop 5 Taking Ownership of the Past: Flipping the History Course as a Means of Increasing Student Engagement Daniel Murphree 6 Best Practices for Flipping the College Classroom: Elements of Psychology, an Introductory Psychology Course at the University of Oklahoma Clarissa Thompson and April Martin 7 Flip Don't Flop: Best Practices for Flipping Marketing Courses Michael S. Garver 8 Don't Flip Out: Inverting the Intermediate Microeconomics Course Katherine M. Sauer 9 Flipping the Creativity Class: Creating Active-Learning Environments for Student Innovations Russell Carpenter 10 Student Practices and Perceptions in Flipped Courses Stacey Pigg and Brett Morrison 11 Conclusion: Reflecting on the Flipping Experience Melody A. Bowdon, Lissa Pompos Mansfield, and Julee B. Waldrop Contributors Index