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8 LMS features that support student autonomy in the classroom and beyond

Neo LMS

Flipped classes. The flipped classroom allows students to acquire new concepts at home via engaging videos, online courses, or even game-based learning. Thus, more classroom time can go toward communication, debate, teamwork, and other group activities that support social learning. .

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Competency Based Learning: How Flipped Mastery Makes CBL Possible

Turning Learning On Its Head

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Though the flipped class model proved to be an effective strategy in which we saw increases in student achievement and engagement, we only did the traditional flipped classroom for one year.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. All of the students took a sigh of relief.”.

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Why Middle Schoolers Thrive in a Self-Paced Classroom

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Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading.

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Why Flipped Learning should be standard for Higher Education

Neo LMS

They flipped their classrooms. Instead of going to class to listen to the teacher’s lecture and then home to do their homework, students in a flipped classroom listen, watch or read by themselves — before they go to school. Instead, teachers take on the role of a facilitator of learning.

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Mastery Simplified: Five Tips to Make Mastery a Reality

Turning Learning On Its Head

Recently I have been helping a number of teachers move from a flipped classroom to the Flipped Mastery classroom. A mastery classroom is difficult to implement because students are not all learning the same thing at the same time. Tip #5: Summative Assessments.

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6 Ways Technology Can Reinvent Parent-Teacher Conferences

Edsurge

Skype in the Classroom is a free community of educators from around the world and offers a variety of resources on getting started. If some parents don’t understand the technology you’re using in class, pool the conference slots and have groups of parents come in for personalized training. Offer training or resource sessions.