– by Susan White –
| Featured Faculty | Featured Faculty |
| Dan Jones, Ohio, USA | Deborah Rasmussen, New York, USA |
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| International Faculty founding member, Dan Jones, comes to FLGI with 13 years of teaching experience. He is a middle school Social Studies and Language Arts teacher at The Richland School of Academic Arts in Mansfield, Ohio. Dan began his flipping journey only five years ago and has been a prominent member of the Flipped Learning Community ever since. Dan is a Flipped Learning Master Teacher and has written his first book called Flipped Learning 3.0 Project-Based Learning: An Insanely Simple Guide (reviewed in the April issue of FLR). Dan is one of the Top 100 Flipped Learning leaders in K-12 education worldwide for 2018 and is one of the managing editors of Flipped Learning Review (FLR), the Flipped Learning 3.0 Magazine. | International Faculty founding member, Deborah Rasmussen, began her journey with flipping about 10 years ago when she moved from practicing medicine as a registered nurse to teaching as a clinical educator in a healthcare organization. She is currently a Digital Learning Consultant with Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, supporting innovative explorations to enhance the face to face learning experience. In addition to being named to the International Faculty, Deborah is one the the top 50 Flipped Learning leaders in higher education worldwide. She is currently on the International Faculty Special Projects team. |
| What does the Global Standards Project mean to you? | What does the Global Standards Project mean to you? |
| “The GSP means having a baseline to measure how well we are implementing the 3.0 model of flipped learning. The standards will guide how we evaluate our procedures to enable us to ensure we are using innovative methods, collaborating on a global scale, and creating an active learning environment. Educators all over the world are doing their version of flipped learning. The problem is that there are still educators that are using a very static version of Flipped Learning, and those individuals are operating within educational silos. The Global Standards will ensure that all flipped educators are working with the same expectations, as well as level of understanding, of what it means to flip a class.” | “The Global Standards Project means that we are no longer working in silos; voices of Flipped Learning practitioners around the globe are contributing to a common understanding of Flipped Learning best practices in order to establish the path to consistent practice that will ultimately transfer to the classroom. Without best practices and the consistent dissemination of those principles, we are left floundering with our own interpretations of what it means and how to implement it effectively in the classroom. The standards will transform the obscurity that still exists around Flipped Learning; it will make it more relevant and accessible to more educators. It will increase the number of educators joining in to learn about this learner-centered approach, and following through to apply it in their classrooms.” |
| How do you feel your role as a faculty member has impacted Flipped Learning? | How do you feel your role as a faculty member has impacted Flipped Learning? |
| “My role as a faculty member has made me hypervigilant about ensuring that I am modeling best practices. I also believe that I am now equipped to deliver training to equip educators to be more effective in their flip practices. As a Faculty member, I have been able to be a part of global projects that will continue to evolve flip practices.” | “My experience collaborating with other faculty members to discuss the rewards and challenges of Flipped Learning as well as identifying the initial standards has changed my own practice in ways I don’t even yet realize. I’ve brought back the lessons I’ve learned from these collaborations to my own organization and have established a new Flipped Learning Community of Practice on campus. Keeping the new Global Standards in view, we have already moved beyond our siloed classroom walls and will soon connect with other discipline exerts around the globe! The conversations are so rich. I’m incredibly honored and grateful to FLGI for this experience and I’m excited for the future of our classrooms!” |
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