Flipping Adult Classrooms
Adult Education is overall based on student-focused principals, the opposite of pedagogy. If learning facilitators are here to support the student’s experience, the flipped classroom is an excellent method to do this. Students take the learning into their own hands to review all material on their own time, and come to class to share that learning with their peers and ensure what they learned or perceived from reviewing materials was accurate. “Immediate quiz feedback and the ability to rerun lecture segments may help clarify points of confusion” (EDUCAUSE).
The teacher acts as a facilitator and students are given the opportunity to reach their full potential by taking their learning into their own hands to be self-directed. If the focus for andragogy is flipped from pedagogy, why not flip the whole notion of the classroom as well. “The flipped model puts more of the responsibility for learning on the shoulders of students while giving them greater impetus to experiment” (EDUCASE).
I plan to incorporate the idea of the flipped classroom into my lesson plan by having students conduct E-Learning courses on their own time prior to coming to class, where we can then maximize the time spent utilizing and putting into practice what was previously learned through E-Learning. The E-Learning courses have already been created, initially intended to use in class to supplement software demonstrations, but they could easily be completed by students prior to attending class. Since the students can only access our software’s practice environments in the classroom, it is crucial to maximize the time they get to practice using the software.
7 Things you should know about Flipped Classrooms. (2012, February 1). Retrieved from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7081.pdf
Merriam, Sharan, and Laura Bierema. "Adult Learning in the Digital Age." Adult Learning Linking Theory and Practice. First ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2014. 207 - 208. Print.
