The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. Short video lectures (or other learning materials) are viewed by students at home before the class session, while in-class time is devoted to exercises, projects, or discussions.
Build an app, build a connection encourages students to engage with each other and teaching staff through the creation of a simple mobile applications that can be shared. This can be either an icebreaker activity in a tutorial or the introduction to flipping a classroom. It can lead to deeper discussions and investigations across a wide variety of topics.
The student cohort in the common core course, Business Computing 1, is very large (approx. 1000), with a wide variance of prior experience.
Programming is taught as of first year in Computer Science and cognate disciplines and is known to be challenging (to first year students). In CSIT the key first year programming course is Programming 1.
Typically, and this is a worldwide phenomenon, first year programming courses experience high failure and attrition rates.
This project involved three courses taught in the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Chinese Medicine) as well as the Masters of Acupuncture.
