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Blended Learning and Educational Technology to enhance Biology Marcey, David J. [1]. The Lecture Hall as an Arena of Inquiry: Using Cinematic Lectures and Inverted Classes (CLIC) to Flip an Introductory Biology Lecture Course. Two sections of an introductory Biology lecture course (Introduction to Metabolism, Genes and Development) were run in parallel as a pedagogical experiment. One section was taught in a long-established, traditional manner, with lectures delivered during class, readings assigned in a textbook, and access to lecture graphics/slides provided via the online syllabus. The other, "flipped" section lacked both required reading assignments and in-class lectures. Instead, students were assigned online cinematic lectures (cinelectures) for viewing outside of class. These cinelectures, delivered via YouTube, incorporate multiple presentation media. In class, students were broken into small groups and conducted learning activities that varied from building physical molecular models to constructing concept maps of key topics. Often, these groups were responsible for presenting material to the class as a whole. Accounting for all sources of content, the subject material covered was the same for both sections and assessments of learning were identical quizzes and examinations. Statistically significant differences in learning were observed during the first half of the semester, with the flipped-class students performing better on all tests and quizzes. These differences disappeared in the second half of the semester, coincident with a large increase in the number of views of cinelectures recorded on the course YouTube channel. Survey of the traditional class revealed that approximately 2/3 of the students had learned of the cinelectures at this time and had added viewing of these to their study, providing an internal, if initially unintended, control sample to the experiment. These results, along with other analyses to be presented, provide strong evidence that supports the conversion of traditional Biology lecture classes to a flipped model.
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A YouTube channel with cinematic lectures for a flipped Biology course: Introduction to Metabolism, Genes, and Development, a.k.a "The Flow of Life"
1 - California Lutheran University, Biology, 60 W Olsen Rd, MC 3700, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91360, USA
Keywords:
flipped classes
flipped classroom
Active learning
online lectures
cinematic lectures
Blended Learning
flipped pedagogy
hybrid learning
hybrid classes.
Presentation Type: Symposium Presentation
Session: SY04
Location: Salon 4/The Shaw Conference Centre
Date: Monday, July 27th, 2015
Time: 2:15 PM
Number: SY04003
Abstract ID:1102
Candidate for Awards:None |
