Dr. Vijay Kanabar, PMP
Boston University
*Promote Active Learning in Classes
What used to be Homework can be Classwork!
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*Flip teaching is a form of blended
learning which encompasses any use
of Internet technology to leverage
the learning in a classroom, so a
teacher can spend more time
interacting with students instead of
lecturing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_teaching
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*Describe Experience with teaching flipped PM
classes.
*Why use flipped classes?
*How to teach flipped classes?
*What topics lend themselves?
*When to teach flipped classes.
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*We teach online, blended and face to face.
*We have access to courseware (LMS) that
allows us to teach in a flexible manner.
*Resources you must invest in …
*Videos
*Flash animation
*Good Content
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*Series of educational videos and good tutorials
can offer complete curricula
*Students can pause and repeat lectures at
home – less disruptive than asking questions in
class.
*Don’t have to be embarrassed if they don’t
know the basics. They can research the basic
information.
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*Student feel bad about wasting our time..
*Students learn at a different pace
*In their own comfortable room
*At their own schedule
*Allows us to schedule classes in a flexible
manner (Eg., every third week or every other
week).
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*Lots of useful material online today.
*If you allow laptops use during
lecture to research material or
videos it will result in chaos.
*We travel to a conference...
students fall sick.
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*This is most commonly being done
using teacher created videos and
other quality web resources that
students view outside of class time.
*To insure due diligence require that
students take notes when watching
video or websites.
*Homework is done in class during
Lectures.
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*Watch the Video….
*Read the Lectures
*Quiz– Difference between Risks & Issues;
Different Mitigation approaches
*Give them some details of what we will be
doing in class.
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*Get going on the problem
Risk Management
Analysis of Risks Threats
Deal with Bad Risks & Constraints First
Opportunities
Brainstorm for Opportunities
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*Identify all risks.
*Quantify them in terms
of their probability and impact. * high, medium, low, no impact.
*Respond * Prevent
* Mitigate
* Transfer
* Absorb
At
Home…
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*Identify all risks.
*Quantify them in terms
of their probability and impact. * high, medium, low, no impact.
*Respond
* Exploit
* Share
* Enhance
* Accept
At
Home…
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*Constraints - They are known and documented
in scope statement. Artificially Created.
*Risks – Unknown.
*Issues – Risks that have materialized. At
Home…
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*A Quick Quiz oral or written Quiz
*Lecture Material is not perfect usually
*So clarify concepts of different types of risks
*Give them examples of each…
(Unacceptable)
High Risk
Medium Risk
Low Risk
Units of relative loss
Pro
babil
ity
0%
100%
100%
Visually Ranking Risks
(Acceptable)
15
Rain Will
Ruin Party
Not enough
Funds Team
Experience
In Class
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*Students are engaged – identifying responses to
risks.
*I go around engaging groups individually – “Give
me a risk that is an opportunity….!”
*They learn more.
*Can be tiring process for instructor!
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*Content… content.. content
*Flip Easy topics
*Let us not waste class time on that….
*Difficult topics
*Crack the ice in class first
*MS Project – Show them the interface, show them how to install the software from our server (free license).
*Be available to help them out (via distance webinars)
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*Track Data using the LMS.
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*International Students
*Not interested in staying at
home & learning from a PC.
*Not able to study
independently
*Lack Discipline - Time
Management (taking too many
courses, etc.)
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*In class lecture material is “one size fits all”
*With Flipped – we encourage students to
explore more topics.
*Weaker students will catch up. They just work
at a different pace.
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*Framework of team project assignments is a
must.
*Peer to peer tutoring takes place
*Ratio is 80-20 sometimes…
*Not 100% success!
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*Professional Students – studying
independently & want to avoid
long commutes
*School provides facilitators
*School provided facilities to
record lectures.
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*The Flipped Classroom is NOT:
A synonym for online videos. Or about
replacing teachers with videos.
*An online course.
*Students spending the entire class staring at a
computer screen.
*Students working in isolation.
http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php
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*The Flipped Classroom IS:
*The interaction and the meaningful learning
activities that occur during the face-to-face
time.
*An environment where students take
responsibility for their own learning.
*A classroom where the teacher is not the "sage
on the stage", but the "guide on the side".
http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php
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*The Flipped Classroom IS:
A classroom where students who are absent
due to illness or business don’t get left behind.
*A class where content is permanently
archived for review or remediation.
*A class where all students are engaged in their
learning & can get a personalized education
http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php
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*Do you teach online? With Online courses it is
easy to flip … are some of your lectures then
flipped?
*Have you put in effort to create assignments
that lend themselves to flipped lectures?