Flipped learning - LinkedIn Learning Tutorial

- LinkedIn Learning is a powerful tool for teachers that use the Flipped Learning model. In this video, I'll provide a brief overview of the process and a few tips to help you utilize LinkedIn Learning for a flipped classroom. Flipped Learning is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of having students come to class and attend a lecture or a lesson, and then sending them home to apply that knowledge as homework, we move the lesson to the home environment before class. And then have students work on application and extension of knowledge activities in the classroom. Now this makes a lot of sense when we think about the learning modalities of how we learn during the lecture and the homework phase. When we're in class we're asking students to be passive learners and then when they move home we're asking them to be active learners. Most of us, however, we need more support when we reach the active learning level. With Flipped Learning, you the educator, and the most valuable resource your students have, will be present during the active learning. And you can provide additional supports, you can reinforce the knowledge or even correct misunderstandings, real time, while your students work towards content mastery. Students then do a bulk of their passive learning at home, typically this is watching a video, consuming articles, or using other multimedia to gain basic knowledge that's going to be applied during the class session. So how does LinkedIn Learning fit into this model? Well we have thousands of videos that can be used for Flipped Learning or allow you to upload your own content and provide a single point of access for your students to find and consume all of their Flipped Learning materials in a single spot. Let's take a look at an example of this. If one of the learning objectives in your course was on let's say, comparative statistics, you may create a lesson plan that includes telling students what a comparative statistic is, perhaps how to use Excel to make a comparative table, and you'd expect your students to be able to perform the necessary steps to derive comparative statistics. One way you could approach this is to have your students before your next class watch a LinkedIn Learning video on comparative statistics. You could also assign a video on how do you, let's say, create tables in Excel. And then you yourself could record and upload a video on the formulas you want them to write in Excel to create the comparative statistics. Since your students did this at home, when they arrive to your class, you simply provide the data tables and students start making the comparative statistics tables right away. You're now free to move around the classroom and provide supports to students that need it, allowing those students that have already comprehend the topic to move on and allowing students that need some additional time to coaching that's going to help them be successful. The result is that students get more support, appropriate to their level of comprehension. Now since LinkedIn Learning allows you to upload your own contents, in terms of movies, documents, images and even links, it's possible to curate all of your flipped classroom materials in a single point of access for your students. Now if you're not familiar with the Flipped Learning model, really understanding this instructional method takes more time than we have in this course. But if you'd like a deeper dive into this concept we do have an entire course that covers Flipped Learning here on LinkedIn Learning.