Make Good Videos for Flipped Classroom Learning Approach

Mr. Digambar Tukaram Kashid (dtkashid@coe.sveri.ac.in), Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SVERI’s, College of Engineering, Pandharpur

A flipped classroom is a type of blended learning where students are introduced to content at home and practice working through it at school. This is the reverse of the more common practice of introducing new content at school, then assigning homework and projects to complete by the students independently at home. In this blended learning approach, face-to-face interaction is mixed with independent study–usually via technology. In a common Flipped Classroom scenario, students might watch pre-recorded videos at home, then come to school to do the homework armed with questions and at least some background knowledge. The concept behind the flipped classroom is rethink when students have access to the resources they need most. If the problem is that students need help doing the work rather than being introduced to the new thinking behind the work, than the solution the flipped classroom takes is to reverse that pattern.

Points to be considered while Recording Video for Flipped Learning:

1. Start with a few lessons:

It takes time to create video lectures for your class even when your PowerPoint lectures are ready Don’t try to flip your whole class in one semester. Start with the concepts most students are grappling with and record videos for those concepts.

• Don’t make videos that are longer than 15 minutes:

Break a topic into segments and make a short video for each segment. Approximately 1 minute per slide.

• State the learning objectives at the beginning. Summarize at the end:

Using action verbs, be clear on what the students will be able to do after watching the video.

• Write scripts before recording videos:

Prepare scripts for your videos prior to recording. When you record with scripts, you will feel more confident and be able to make your video free of mutterings and pauses.

• Use a microphone and good lighting:

Use an external microphone instead of your computer’s internal microphone. For video, turn off or dim almost all other lights in the room that are behind and above you. Place a light near your computer, and angle it toward your face. This will help brighten your face when the webcam is recording.

• Practice, and then practice again:

Listen to yourself anticipate any animations or elaborate visuals in your presentation. Remember: This is a performance that may be watched several times by one learner.

• Contribute to others’ works:

If you intend to place a copyright notice on your videos, consider a Creative Commons license. Just as you may have used others’ works to further illustrate your teaching, teaching professionals may want to use your video in their lessons.

• Use existing videos:

Sometimes,make use of quality resources currently available. Try searching for videos on the following sites: Khan Academy, TED Ed, Coursera, YouTube, and Med Tube Net.

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