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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Faculty thinking about "flipping" all or part of a course or even just supplementing a course with video lectures, should attend this panel discussion by ECE faculty members who have "flipped their classes." The panel members have flipped/blended courses from sophomore to graduate level. The panel members are listed below along with a brief description of their approaches (in order of the level of the corresponding courses, from graduate-level down to 2000 level):
Tom Gaylord teaches ECE 6530 as a blended class with video modules viewed before class and credit given for in-class assigned discussion and for in-class contributed (spontaneous) discussion.
Vincent Mooney has taught ECE 6132 and ECE 3060 for many years using Tegrity to partially flip classes, thereby covering many more examples in class as well as providing past recordings of interest such as previous exam questions plus review sessions and office hours discussions explaining difficult topics slowly in much greater detail.
Magnus Egerstedt flipped ECE4555 Embedded and Hybrid Control around his MOOC: Control of Mobile Robots and had the students do lots of real robotics experiments and projects in class.
Morris Cohen flipped ECE3025 in both Spring and Fall of 2014. The key strategy employed in class, on homework, and in midterms, is to use two-stage questions that challenged a students' conceptual understanding. Students first answer the question on their own, and then are asked to reach a consensus in small groups, often via lively discussion.
Alenka Zajic flipped ECE3025 Electromagnetics in Spring 2014. She gave students the option to prepare for class by doing some assigned readings or by watching online video lectures.
Mary Ann Weitnauer is teaching ECE 2040 (along with Bonnie Ferri) in Fall 2014 as a blended class where students watch videos in the Coursera platform before class and then spend the class time with supplemental lectures on the more difficult topics, extra worked problems, worksheets, and weekly in-class labs.
