ECEDHA 2020 -- Peer Instruction Models

With active learning, the idea is to break the traditional mold where students are passive listeners during lectures. Instead, the limited contact hours between students and instructors are re-focused towards where they are most beneficial to the students’ learning and mastery of the material. The flipped classroom with peer instruction is one such active learning strategy that can be used to redesign traditional lecture courses.

We investigate the question: what does it take to change an existing course into a flipped one and incorporate active learning strategies? The focus is specifically on core lower division courses, which are challenging as they involve more inexperienced students and often larger class sizes. In addition to their importance as the theoretical foundation for students’ understanding, these courses also play a key role in retention.

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Panel Members:

Dr. Curt Schurgers	Dr. Cynthia Furse (Links to an external site.)		Page under construction