Jonas Gehring, Mark Bork Creating activities for the flipped classroom

Summary

As part of our ERP we created several types of media to provide an easier understanding for
future students, so they can find important information on creating activities in the Flipped
Classroom faster and understand the purpose behind the Flipped Teaching methods.

When we started with our work on the ERP, we first had to do a lot of research because we
did not know much about creating activities in the Flipped classroom. The next step was to
gather all the information in one document, so we had an overview of all the methods we
wanted to present. There were many other activities that sounded interesting but we did not
want to present all of them so the presentation would not be too long, so each person picked
five Flipped Classroom activities that he would like to deal with further. Furthermore, we did
not want to choose the exact same activities that the group before us chose.

After we collected all the information that we could find on the topic, we began creating our
presentation. We structured our presentation into individual activities and group activities.
The individual activities are, on the one hand, the iClickers/Polling method where students
use remote transmitters to click in their answers to multiple choice questions that are
presented to them by the instructor. On the other hand, there is the Word Maps/ Concept
Maps method where students map out how concepts, ideas, or theories are thematically
related in a visual manner.

Then we moved on to the group activities, where the first method we picked was the Affinity
Grouping method which is a teaching technique that involves brainstorming and group
organization. Case Studies is the next group activity, where the students review a case study
concerning a specific real-life problem or scenario. The next method which we included into
our presentation is the Role Play method where students work with a controversial topic and
act out their parts in small groups. After that, we picked the Group Investigation method
because it is one of the most typical methods of the flipped classroom where students have
time in class to voice their opinion on a certain topic after having read an article at home.
The Think-Pair-Share method is another interesting method that we chose to include in our
presentation. In this method, students reflect on a quiz question or a concept presented in
the out of class material individually before discussing it further in groups. After that, we
picked the Team Matrix method that helps students to distinguish the most important
features of quite similar concepts while differentiating between each. Another exciting
method that we included into our presentation is the Fishbowl Discussion method where a
small group of students sits in a circle and engages in a peer-mediated discussion. The last
group activity method that we picked is the Critical Debate method where students form
groups and debate about controversial topics which are given to them by the teacher.

After finishing our presentation, we decided to create a video in the form of a voiced-over
powerpoint presentation because we thought that this would give us the chance to further
elaborate on our topic. Aside from that, we took the opportunity to explain all the different
teaching methods in a more detailed way. The video also provides a more entertaining way
to get our content across which makes it easier to process all the information.

To finish up our work on the ERP, we created a worksheet where students have to answer
some specific questions about the different Flipped Teaching methods. With this task, we
wanted to give students the chance to reflect on what they have learned. Furthermore, the
task gives students the opportunity to collect the most important information about all the
different methods on one worksheet.