Flipping the Virtual Classroom

Virtual Classroom - “BUT it’s not the same as face to face is it?”

How would we be communicating now if someone had

told Alexander Bell that speaking on a telephone would

never replace speaking face to face?

Supporting the new Blend

Learning – Developing Skills

Knowledge

Process

Application

F2

F

VC

Teach Knowledge in class

Live Session – 8 hours Post event

Knowledge via pre-work

Live Session – 2 hours

George A. Miller, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for

Processing Information

Chunking Learning

Use classroom time to lecture

Provide knowledge

Limited practice time

Leaves learner “hanging”

Knowledge is gained through pre-work

Use classroom time to practice

Embed the knowledge

Limited lecture

What is a flipped classroom?

What are some benefits of this method?

Able to spend more time role playing or running scenarios where the learning transfers into ‘real world’

A means to INCREASE interaction and personalised contact time between participants and facilitators.

Creates a collaborative learning environment in the classroom where all participants are engaged in their learning.

The Flipped Classroom - Benefits

So what does that mean for us in the virtual classroom?

Facilitator

More a change of approach

than new skills

Let go of the learning a little –

but correct misunderstanding

Help learner embed the learning

through scenario’s and role

plays

Producer

Monitoring and supporting

pre-work

Keeping participants connected

to the learning on curriculum

More active role in collaborative

exercises

So what does that mean for us in the virtual classroom?

Instructional Designer

Need to create pre-work and tie

in to main content

Ensure full suite of resources

are available to participants and

facilitation team

Communication for programme

needs to be clearer

Participants Manager’s

Promote and communicate

critical need for pre-work

Support participants by allowing

“time” to complete pre-work

during work time

So what does that mean for us in the virtual classroom?

Participants

Be responsible for ensuring completion of pre-work

Accountability

More engaged in learning

Changing the Culture

Communicate clearly

Don’t reteach – not got time to!

Make the pieces reliant on each other

5 Keys to success

Flipping the virtual classroom needs strong objectives and design Designers need to create both asynchronous and synchronous content Trainers need to move from ‘Sage-on-Stage’ to ‘Guide-on-side’ Participants need to come to session prepared Managers need to support learners to learn

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These slides are from the webinar hosted by

GoToTraining on February 12, 2013.

A copy of the on-demand recording can be

accessed via this link: http://bit.ly/FlipVirtual

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