Training in Syros (Flipped Learning 3.0)

In the frame of the „Flipped Adult Education“ Project, the project team will implement a training for trainers of the organizations focusing on the Flipped Learning 3.0 Framework. Peter Mazohl, holding a Flipped Learning Master’s II degree, will be responsible for the training. He is currently reflecting material from the course offered by the FLGlobal. Read More …

Pre-print of the „Flipped Adult Education“ guide approved!

At the last project meeting in Málaga all of the project partners approved the pre-print of the guide. The „[popup_anything id=“1176″]“ guide with a volume of around 170 pages will be published as book-on-demand in mid-July and can be ordered from Amazon. Besides the approval of the guide, content-based issues dealing with Flipped Learning 3.0 Read More …

Backward Design

Backward Design, which is used in education, is a process to design learning experiences and instructional techniques to achieve specific learning outcomes. This method can be counted to the top-down approaches. Top-down versus Bottom-up The top–down approach goes from the general to the specific, and the bottom–up approach begins at the specific and moves to Read More …

Vegetarian cooking class: An example of a Flipped learning course for adults

In the soon-to-be published Flipped Learning Guide for trainers, you will find a selection of case studies that shows how a Flipped learning course for adults can be designed. One of these is a vegetarian cooking class. It includes hints for course preparation, a course structure with six parts and examples of recipes. Furthermore, suggestions Read More …

Flipped Adult Education – the Guide

The production of the guide has been started – the first pages are ready and are going to be proofread! The guide – in English language – will be available as a printable PDF file (in May). Other formats will be ePub (also for Kindle) Printed Version (as a complete book). During the summer, a Read More …

Using debates as activities in the Flipped Learning

The learners are sitting in according to two randomly allocated groups. The atmosphere is filled with excited apprehension. Two people have been given the task of opening the debate and making sure everybody who wants to talk gets their turn. Everybody has been researching the chosen topic at home, using videos and interactive texts provided Read More …

Active Learning – a Cornerstone of Flipped Learning 3.0

Theresa is a nine-year-old child celebrating her birthday. In one of the gift parcels, she finds a book about nature: „Nature around you“. She is enthusiastic about the illustrations and sees pictures of many animals that live in the forests and meadows in the vicinity of her home, even though she has never met personally. Read More …

What does „Lower Bloom’s“ mean?

Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy 1956. This sounds really old – like an ancient pedagogical issue. Within the last 50 years Blooms taxonomy has been several times revised and brought to a “modern outfit”. Therefore, it is still valid today. Benjamin Bloom (February 21, 1913 – September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who Read More …

Using Web-based Content

Using Open Educational Resources in Flipped Learning 3.0 A quickly done search for the term “Open Educational Resources“ in Google brings about 1.610.000.000 results. For those looking for it, that is a huge number – the internet is obviously full of open learning sources that a trainer in adult education might use. These sources could Read More …