The Flipped Classroom in World History.

Abstract

THE FlippEd Classroom is one in which lectures are presented as homework outside of class in online videos so that class time is reserved for engaging directly with the materials. The first time I employed this pedagogical tool was at Colorado state University-pueblo (CsU-pueblo), a regional public university1 with a high percentage of first-generation college students and a high percentage of students who find college-level work unexpectedly challenging. First-year survey courses in the History department are capped at 40 students. during the spring semester of 2013, when I first implemented the flipped classroom, enrollments were unusually low. in the two sections of World History to 1100, one had 14 students and the other had 22. in the History department at CsU-pueblo, we have the enviable position of teaching World History in three semesters rather than two. The divisions are to 1100 C.E., 1100 to1800, and 1800 to present. I am responsible for the first of these, HIST 101: World Civilization to 1100 C.E.2 We do not share a standard text or curriculum for the World History sequence. i employ strayer’s World History with Sources and begin with evolution (thanks to a few skulls from a colleague in anthropology) and the paleolithic age. This is a standard face-to-face course enhanced by Blackboard, where i provide links to online videos and additional primary sources that are not available in the textbook or that i want the students to read at greater length. Blackboard is also used for posting assignments, links to maps, links for optional further reading, and for the students to submit written assignments. Now that i am employing