Our upcoming eLearning Lunch & Learn session is a "back by popular demand" discussion of a TEDTalk. A few years ago, a bright fellow decided to help some of his relatives who lived in another city learn math. In a short time, his approach exploded to become the Kahn Academy which then became the poster child for "flipped classrooms." Both the Kahn Academy and flipped classrooms have generated healthy discussions about how we should teach. In a flipped classroom, students watch videos, such as those in the Kahn Academy, or read materials as homework and then complete learning activities (e.g., solve problems, work in small groups, etc.) in the classroom. In our ELL session, we'll discuss these and several related topics.
In keeping with the flipped filosophy, sorry, philosophy, you are to view the following videos as homework and then we'll discuss what you've learned while we dine at the County Line. Here's the link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html
The Kahn Academy is an excellent example of using videos in education settings. If there's time and interest, we'll also discuss the more general topic of the use of videos in education and training. Who is using them in education? In training? What are some of the issues in creating and delivering videos in training settings? To be clear, this discussion will go beyond the Kahn Academy and flipped classrooms.
But wait! There's more. A long time ago, mastery learning was a popular concept in education and training. Over the past two decades, the term has rarely appeared in the literature. If there's time and interest, we'll discuss mastery learning and it's revival.
