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Imagine having more class time with your students. Having students watch lectures outside of class would provide more opportunities to incorporate student-centered activities in class.  Many educators are flipping their classes by having students watch their lectures at home (traditionally done in class) and having students do their “homework” (traditionally done at home) in class. This inverting of instructional methods is called flipped learning. Virtually unknown a few years ago, flipped learning is now gaining attention at the secondary and university levels. Several medical/health professional schools are examining the flipped learning concept and many high schools are already using this method. Recently, the National Science Foundation awarded a half-million dollar grant exploring Case Studies and the Flipped Classroom for developing flipped methods in undergraduate biology curriculum.

Written by Susan Oates, Lead Development Coordinator at Gwinnett Online Campus 

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Our guest poster, Stephen Holland, is back with another post sharing how being a parent helps you become a more self-reliant student. If you enjoy this post, please share it with others.

Our guest post for this week is from Leah MacVie, an Instructional Designer at Canisius College. If this post pushes your buttons you may want to watch her recent Innovators webinar: Preparing Faculty of all Technology Levels to Teach Online – Blended – Hybrid. Enjoy!

Please help us in welcoming back Lisa Dubuc of Niagara County Community College (SUNY) for another guest post! Lisa is one of the presenters from our wildly popular Face-to-Face, Blended and Online Teaching and Learning Innovator Series. The series might be over but the recorded sessions are available on our website and there are still plenty of issues to explore through blog posts. Take it away Lisa.

This month our Innovators session is covering a hot topic in the education space –  the flipped classroom. The presenters are from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and include Jodi Brown, Ph. D.; Wendy Ashley, Psy.D./LCSW; and Li Wang, Ph. D. Brown and Ashley are both faculty members in the Department of Social Work at CSUN and Wang is an instructional designer for the Faculty Technology Center. These educators have adopted the flipped classroom model and plan to implement it in their courses for the 2012-2013 school year. Learn more about the process of developing a flipped classroom with SoftChalk by reading the interview below and signing up for the Innovators in Online Learning Session, which will take place August 13^th at 4:00PM EDT.

Watch the video and then register for a premier webinar to see SoftChalk Cloud in action.