“Flipping” an Undergraduate Anthropology Course

I collaborated with anthropology professor Dr. Benjamin Freed on flipping his Intro to Physical Anthropology (ANT 201) class in Summer 2018. The philosophy behind a “flipped” classroom is that all course concepts and knowledge are delivered outside of class through reading, virtual lectures, quizzes, etc. The concepts and knowledge are then put into practice during the actual class time through labs and group exercises. I (along with fellow Noel Studio employee Abigail Byrd), having just taken the class in Spring 2018, provided Dr. Freed with feedback concerning our experience with the class and worked to incorporate the feedback into the flipped classroom format. Together, we developed and refined audio lectures, PowerPoint slides, and supplementary course material that would effectively deliver course content to students outside of class. We then refined lab projects that the students would perform during class time and made sure the implementation of the labs expanded on and enhanced the knowledge gained through the course material delivered outside of class time.

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