Jay Goldstein (speaker) describes using Chirise video content as the springboard for a flipped-classroom Agile Foundations course within the University of Washington's Masters of Engineering Management program. He notes the course meets once a week for three hours in the evening, that Chirise content saves instructors the time of creating/editing videos, and that self-paced videos help non-native English speakers review material so everyone arrives at class at a similar level.
Now I'm doing an online course with University of Washington as part of their Masters of Engineering Management. And I thought, wow, this would be really great to set up a flipped classroom. Use chirise as the, as sort of the springboard content for an Agile Foundations course and then fill in with more discussion and application within the actual class time that we have, which is just once a week for three hours in the evening. If you think about the average teacher instructor like myself, I mean to create the video content, to do all the editing, you know, it wouldn't have matched what you guys have done. And so yes, it's not me providing the content, but you're a good surrogate. So this year I've had quite a number of students where English is not their first language. They can repeat and continue to review the video until they feel comfortable with it. So, you know, this not only is a flipped classroom, but this capacity for self paced and across, you know, probably a fairly wide spectrum of consuming the content I think has really helped me bring people along so when they arrive at the class, they're all arriving at the same level.
