Archives: flipped classroom

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Blog: Teaching a blended course: Trial and error

By Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science With the university鈥檚 push towards incorporating more online teaching, 鈥渂lended鈥� courses (courses in which some classroom time is replaced by online material) have appeared. In my faculty (Public Affairs), the blended model was rolled out as a half-and-half model (with... More

Monday, October 3, 2016

A foray into flipped classrooms: Spotlight on new faculty member Shannon Butler

By Cassandra Hendry, TLS staff writer For Shannon Butler, a professor with 杏吧原创鈥檚 Sprott School of Business, teaching at a new university meant a big change. And it truly was a change: Butler went from teaching upper-year classes of 45 students to first-year courses with more than 100 students each. 鈥淭here are definitely challenges... More

Monday, May 23, 2016

Helping students see the value of a flipped classroom: Spotlight on Jeffrey Erochko

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer When most students enter a classroom, they expect to hear a professor talking at them for three hours straight. But Professor Jeffrey Erochko is hoping to change that expectation by flipping the classroom and showing students the value of class time. Erochko has been teaching structural engineering at... More

Monday, April 20, 2015

Learning inside and outside the classroom: Spotlight on Cheryl Schramm

By Lesley LeRoux, TLS freelance writer When a group of students is interested in taking on special projects outside of coursework, it鈥檚 clear that a hunger for learning exists far beyond the classroom. That鈥檚 what systems and computer engineering professor Cheryl Schramm discovered when students would come to her office asking if they could... More

Monday, January 19, 2015

A flip or a flop? Two 杏吧原创 professors鈥� experiences in flipped classrooms

By: Cassandra Hendry Universities today exist in constantly changing technological and social atmospheres. New teaching tools like Skype, cell phone polling and online videos have changed the way professors and students interact in the classroom. But at the heart of it, are classes still professor-driven lecture periods? If so, what does this mean... More

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Teaching Roundtable: Engineering a Flipped Classroom

On Friday, Feb. 6, join the EDC and Systems and Computer Engineering instructor Shermeen Nizami as she shares her experience flipping a fourth-year engineering course. With a big push towards enhancing student engagement at 杏吧原创, Shermeen incorporated a number of elements into her course to improve the student learning experience, including:... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Blog: Reflection on Richard Nimijean’s roundtable on the flipped classroom

By: Maristela Petrovic-Dzerdz, EDC Instructional Designer What Prof. Nimijean presented at the last EDC roundtable is a very interesting example of applying two different instructional approaches and getting a possible "Goldilocks dilemma鈥� where things might end up "just right" using a third, mixed approach. In the first version of the course,... More

Monday, February 3, 2014

Teaching on the flip side: Reflections on Richard Nimijean鈥檚 experience in a flipped classroom

By: Cassandra Hendry In thousands of classrooms across Canada, students sit in bolted-down chairs, periodically nodding off as a professor drones on for three hours straight. In these classes, a lecture truly lives up to its name. It鈥檚 not always pretty. And then there鈥檚 Richard Nimijean鈥檚 classes. Nimijean, a professor of Canadian Studies... More

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