Dr. Vijay Kanabar, PMP

Boston University

*Promote Active Learning in Classes

What used to be Homework can be Classwork!

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*Flip teaching is a form of blended

learning which encompasses any use

of Internet technology to leverage

the learning in a classroom, so a

teacher can spend more time

interacting with students instead of

lecturing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_teaching

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*Describe Experience with teaching flipped PM

classes.

*Why use flipped classes?

*How to teach flipped classes?

*What topics lend themselves?

*When to teach flipped classes.

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*We teach online, blended and face to face.

*We have access to courseware (LMS) that

allows us to teach in a flexible manner.

*Resources you must invest in …

*Videos

*Flash animation

*Good Content

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*Series of educational videos and good tutorials

can offer complete curricula

*Students can pause and repeat lectures at

home – less disruptive than asking questions in

class.

*Don’t have to be embarrassed if they don’t

know the basics. They can research the basic

information.

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*Student feel bad about wasting our time..

*Students learn at a different pace

*In their own comfortable room

*At their own schedule

*Allows us to schedule classes in a flexible

manner (Eg., every third week or every other

week).

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*Lots of useful material online today.

*If you allow laptops use during

lecture to research material or

videos it will result in chaos.

*We travel to a conference...

students fall sick.

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*This is most commonly being done

using teacher created videos and

other quality web resources that

students view outside of class time.

*To insure due diligence require that

students take notes when watching

video or websites.

*Homework is done in class during

Lectures.

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*Watch the Video….

*Read the Lectures

*Quiz– Difference between Risks & Issues;

Different Mitigation approaches

*Give them some details of what we will be

doing in class.

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*Get going on the problem

Risk Management

Analysis of Risks Threats

Deal with Bad Risks & Constraints First

Opportunities

Brainstorm for Opportunities

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*Identify all risks.

*Quantify them in terms

of their probability and impact. * high, medium, low, no impact.

*Respond * Prevent

* Mitigate

* Transfer

* Absorb

At

Home…

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*Identify all risks.

*Quantify them in terms

of their probability and impact. * high, medium, low, no impact.

*Respond

* Exploit

* Share

* Enhance

* Accept

At

Home…

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*Constraints - They are known and documented

in scope statement. Artificially Created.

*Risks – Unknown.

*Issues – Risks that have materialized. At

Home…

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*A Quick Quiz oral or written Quiz

*Lecture Material is not perfect usually

*So clarify concepts of different types of risks

*Give them examples of each…

(Unacceptable)

High Risk

Medium Risk

Low Risk

Units of relative loss

Pro

babil

ity

0%

100%

100%

Visually Ranking Risks

(Acceptable)

15

Rain Will

Ruin Party

Not enough

Funds Team

Experience

In Class

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*Students are engaged – identifying responses to

risks.

*I go around engaging groups individually – “Give

me a risk that is an opportunity….!”

*They learn more.

*Can be tiring process for instructor!

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*Content… content.. content

*Flip Easy topics

*Let us not waste class time on that….

*Difficult topics

*Crack the ice in class first

*MS Project – Show them the interface, show them how to install the software from our server (free license).

*Be available to help them out (via distance webinars)

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*Track Data using the LMS.

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*International Students

*Not interested in staying at

home & learning from a PC.

*Not able to study

independently

*Lack Discipline - Time

Management (taking too many

courses, etc.)

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*In class lecture material is “one size fits all”

*With Flipped – we encourage students to

explore more topics.

*Weaker students will catch up. They just work

at a different pace.

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*Framework of team project assignments is a

must.

*Peer to peer tutoring takes place

*Ratio is 80-20 sometimes…

*Not 100% success!

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*Professional Students – studying

independently & want to avoid

long commutes

*School provides facilitators

*School provided facilities to

record lectures.

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*The Flipped Classroom is NOT:

A synonym for online videos. Or about

replacing teachers with videos.

*An online course.

*Students spending the entire class staring at a

computer screen.

*Students working in isolation.

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

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*The Flipped Classroom IS:

*The interaction and the meaningful learning

activities that occur during the face-to-face

time.

*An environment where students take

responsibility for their own learning.

*A classroom where the teacher is not the "sage

on the stage", but the "guide on the side".

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

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*The Flipped Classroom IS:

A classroom where students who are absent

due to illness or business don’t get left behind.

*A class where content is permanently

archived for review or remediation.

*A class where all students are engaged in their

learning & can get a personalized education

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/the-flipped-class-conversation-689.php

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*Do you teach online? With Online courses it is

easy to flip … are some of your lectures then

flipped?

*Have you put in effort to create assignments

that lend themselves to flipped lectures?