Our team selected online learning and Khan Academy (KA) as our modality, and Intro to HTML and CSS as the specific resource.<\/p>\n
This post will discuss the impact that the Khan Academy modality may have had on learning and teaching, specifically by promoting flipped classroom delivery and providing the educational materials needed for instructors to easily transition to using a flipped classroom approach.<\/p>\n
Khan Academy was one of the more prominent early promoters of the flipped classroom concept. Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy where the instructional material is delivered to students outside of the classroom, likely when students are at home, and students engage in classroom activities and study, some of which might usually be considered homework, with instructor support.<\/p>\n
The idea of using a flipped classroom goes back at least as far as the 1990s (King, 1993), but the term flipped classroom may not have been used until around 2010 or maybe even 2011. Daniel Pink wrote an article about the concept in Sep 2010 but never called it flipped classroom, suggesting that the term might not have existed yet (Pink, 2010). It is not clear who used the term first, but Sal Khan of Khan Academy used the term a lot starting at least as far back as 2011 when he did a popular TED Talk that promoted Khan Academy and the flipped classroom concept (TED, 2011). The flipped classroom movement has been largely attributed to Sal Khan (Ash, 2012), and this TED Talk may have been what both popularized the term flipped classroom and started the movement.<\/p>\n
Khan Academy provides the online lessons needed, in some subject areas, for instructors to easily transition to using a flipped classroom. Through promoting flipped classroom delivery and making these resources available, Khan Academy has allowed many instructors to easily make the transition to flipped classroom delivery.<\/p>\n
Is the flipped classroom beneficial? According to Tucker (2012), using the flipped classroom provides \u201cthe opportunity to elevate teaching practice and the profession as a whole\u201d (p. 82). Roehl (2013) found that a flipped classroom \u201callows teachers greater insight into students’ grasp of information and learning as a result of increased student\/teacher interaction [and provides] the ability for the class to move forward despite both teacher and student absences\u201d (p. 47).<\/p>\n
Does learner exam performance suffer when flipping the classroom? Blair, Maharaj, and Primus (2016) ran the same course using both traditional and flipped delivery and found that student exam performance remained the same. They also found that students preferred the flipped classroom delivery method.<\/p>\n
It is hard to say how many instructors have switched to the flipped classroom delivery method because of Khan Academy and how much benefit there is from this transition, but Khan Academy does appear to have made a substantial impact in this area. Without Khan Academy and the 2011 TED Talk, I doubt the concept of the flipped classroom would be nearly as popular as it is today.<\/p>\n
What do you think of the flipped classroom approach? Do you prefer courses that use the flipped classroom approach? How much of a difference do you think the subject of the course has on how well flipped classroom delivery works? Have you watched the 2011 Khan Academy Ted Talk, and, if so, what are your thoughts on it?<\/p>\n
References<\/strong><\/p>\n Ash, K. (2012). Educators evaluate flipped classrooms. Education Week, 32(2), s6-s8. Retrieved from http:\/\/commons.marymount.edu\/instructingonline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/135\/2013\/07\/Best-Practices-Flipped-Classroom.pdf<\/p>\n Blair, E., Maharaj, C., & Primus, S. (2016). Performance and perception in the flipped classroom. Education and Information Technologies, 21(6), 1465-1482.<\/p>\n King, A. (1993). From sage on the stage to guide on the side. College teaching, 41(1), 30-35. Retrieved from https:\/\/brioconsulting.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/SageOnTheStage.pdf<\/p>\n TED. (2011, Mar). Let’s use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nTFEUsudhfs<\/p>\n Pink. D. (2010, Sep). Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US. The Telegraph. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/businessclub\/7996379\/Daniel-Pinks-Think-Tank-Flip-thinking-the-new-buzz-word-sweeping-the-US.html<\/p>\n Roehl, A., Reddy, S. L., & Shannon, G. J. (2013). The flipped classroom: An opportunity to engage millennial students through active learning. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 105(2), 44.<\/p>\n Tucker, B. (2012). The flipped classroom. Education next, 12(1). Retrieved from http:\/\/www.msuedtechsandbox.com\/MAETELy2-2015\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/the_flipped_classroom_article_2.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our team selected online learning and Khan Academy (KA) as our modality, and Intro to HTML and CSS as the specific resource. This post will discuss the impact that the Khan Academy modality may have had on learning and teaching, specifically by promoting flipped classroom delivery and providing the educational materials needed for instructors to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt526"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}