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What is Flipped Classroom/Learning

Fostering Communication and Learning With Underutilized Technologies in Higher Education
It refers to an instructional strategy that has recently gained prominence among educational community. The innovative strategy focuses on the integration of instructional and EdTech technologies to allow the instructor to offer online resources and to gamify a class to allow students to learn actively. The strategy allows instructors to transform homework assignments to activities that student can actively participate and engage during the face-to-face class meetings.
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A Text Mining Analysis of Faculty Reflective Narratives on Their Participation in the TeachTech Program at The University of Texas at El Paso: Implications for Integrating IT Technologies Into College Pedagogy
Kenneth C. C. Yang (The University of Texas at El Paso, USA) and Yowei Kang (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4846-2.ch013
Abstract
The University of Texas at El Paso has launched the TeachTech Program to help its instructors to learn and implement the applications of new instructional technologies in the university classrooms. The objectives of this chapter are to examine what faculty members have experienced after taking part in the TeachTech Program. This study employed an online interview method to solicit past and present TeachTech Program participants (N=17) to share their experiences. Participants responded to a questionnaire hosted at QuestionPro. Faculty recurrent keywords and key phrases were collected from participants' experiential narratives. Using the key phrase extraction functions from QDA Miner and WordStat has found the following phrases related to their experiences: “incorporate technology,” “collaborate sessions,” “hybrid version,” “desire to learn,” and “solve problems.” Implications and discussions were provided.
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