Jack West's List: Flipped Classroom

• • Cool interview. Unfortunately, the interviewee is a college technology class teacher. Technology classes are almost all flipped by nature. I want to see something mainstream K12 like what Barb Hewitt of South Dakota does only for ninth grade inglish or math.

• • The $10 iPad keyboard solution!
• • Love that the PC keyboards work better with the iPad than the mac keyboards.

• • I am always suspect of anything Vander Ark has to say because of his cozy relationships with DLN and Pearson (through his investment group). This review of the Kaplan (a for profit online provider) study of blended learning is benign enough, though not particularly insightful. One possible inference of interest is that Kaplan found..
    
    "When students have some control over the sequence of lessons or topics within lessons; the amount of time they spend on each lesson; and their access to learning supports like practice exercises or worked examples, learning is enhanced."
    

• • Interesting comparison of two Stanford Computer Programming classes; one taught traditionally, one flipped.
    
    "And notwithstanding Mr. Rudolph’s complaints, early responses are encouraging: Teaching evaluations for the “flipped” version of the class (CS229A) were comparable to those for the traditional class (CS229). So, too, were students performances on the final project, which was graded based on the same criteria for both the traditional class and the new “applied” version of it."

• • "The lecture capture market is set to tip."
• • Author suggests that the old LMS may be superceded by compliments of tools.
• • Echo360 is a lecture capture program that sees most of its growth in foreign nations coming in 2012, particularly the Middle East

• The lecture capture market is set to tip - with recorded and shared class presentations becoming a standard part of a blended course delivery model.  

   
• The LMS (learning management system) is only one enabler of blended learning. We need other platforms that integrate with the LMS to move us into a 21st century learning mode.   
  

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