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Studien har syftat till att undersöka hur den fornnordiska mytologin framtsälls i vissa utvaldafilmer och tv-spel samt hur dessa kan användas i den svenska religionsundervisningen pågymnasiet. För att undersöka detta har sju olika filmer samt två tv-spel analyserats utifrån ettdidaktiskt perspektiv och utifrån teorierna cultural memory och det kommersiellahistoriebruket. Tre intervjuer har även utförts med gymnasielärare i Sverige för att få reda påhur praktiserande lärare ser på populärkultur som ett redskap i undervisningen. Studien visadeatt det finns en del olika filmer och tv-spel som i olika grad går att använda i undervisningen.Det visades även att den traditionella framställningen av de norröna historierna inte alltid börutgås från när medierna analyseras utan att de, på olika sätt, framställer olika varianter av denfornnordiska mytologin.Nyckelord:

Traditional methods of teaching (i.e., didactic reading and lecture) remain the primary way instruction is delivered in construction management (CM) classrooms. This is true despite a growing body of literature promoting more contemporary, student-centered pedagogies that offer improvements over traditional teaching models. One of these is object-based learning (OBL), a student-centered approach that uses digital learning objects (LOs), such as videos, images, animations, mobile apps, and educational games, to facilitate deep and engaging learning experiences. One of the most common types of LO is instructional videos. Over the past quarter century, abundant research has been conducted in the field of computer science to advance the quality and reach of instructional video LOs. In contrast, a relatively small amount of research has been dedicated to understanding them in terms of their pedagogical efficacy. This is especially true for the field of CM. Very little empirical research currently exists at the intersection of CM and OBL. This dissertation examines the ability of supplemental instructional videos (SIVs) — a specific type of instructional video that complements other forms of instruction, including in-person teaching, readings, and group work, to deliver a full learning experience — to improve both the performance and the quality of the learning experience for undergraduate CM students. The first chapter of the dissertation is introductory, providing information about the major themes of the dissertation including construction management education, OBL, SIVs, and flipped classrooms. The second chapter explores the foundational learning theories that support OBL in a flipped CM classroom. A theoretical framework is proposed that can be used by teachers to guide them as they tailor their own approach for using instructional videos. The third chapter presents an interdisciplinary synthesis of best practices for the design and development of SIVs. Using these best practices, I document the production process of SIVs for an undergraduate CM course called Residential Construction Technologies. The fourth and fifth chapters cover a study in which the SIVs I developed were used as teaching aids for pre-class readings in Residential Construction Technologies. Chapter Four centers on a repeated measures experiment that was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of the SIVs at improving student performance. Chapter Five uses surveys and interviews to understand student perceptions of the SIVs. Overall, I found that the SIVs had little measurable effect on improving the student's grades. However, overwhelmingly, the students reported that they valued having the videos, and felt that they helped with their understanding of unfamiliar or complicated course topics. Chapter Six concludes the dissertation with a short synthesis of all chapters and summary of their major themes and findings. / Doctor of Philosophy / Increasingly, teacher-made instructional videos are being used as educational tools in university classrooms. Unfortunately, not much guidance is available to help teachers with this task, and many of the videos being produced today are both low quality and ineffective. This dissertation's purpose is to help teachers find an efficient way to produce effective and appealing instructional videos for their specific learning audiences. Although this work was executed in a construction management (CM) context, teachers in many fields can benefit from the research. The first major accomplishment of the dissertation is an educational framework that teachers can use to incorporate instructional videos in their own curriculums. Next, a collection of the current best-practice guidelines for the design and development of instructional videos was assembled and explained. Using the guidelines for ourselves, I produced twelve short videos on various construction topics to be used in an undergraduate CM course called Residential Construction Technologies. The videos were designed to accompany readings that the students were assigned to complete before coming to class. To understand if the videos were effective teaching aids, I conducted an experiment to measure whether the videos made a difference to the students' grades. Additionally, I asked the students with a survey and interviews to describe how they felt about the videos. Overall, I found that the videos had little impact in improving the student's scores. However, overwhelmingly, the students reported that they valued and appreciated having the videos and they felt that they helped with the reading topics.

I föreliggande studie undersöks hur ett undervisningsupplägg baserat på flipped classroom påverkar resultatet i en matematikklass på det naturvetenskapliga programmet, samt hur eleverna förhåller sig till ett sådant undervisningsupplägg. Klassen undervisades av samma lärare, men med olika undervisningsupplägg, i tre olika matematikkurser: Traditionell undervisning med klassrumsbaserade genomgångar i Ma 1c; inverterad undervisning i Ma 2c där eleverna före lektionstillfället tog del av en videogenomgång, för att frigöra tid för uppgiftslösning i klassrummet; inverterad undervisning i Ma 3c med tillägget att man i klassrummet använde sig av undervisnings­verktyget peer instruction. En enkät gjordes angående elevernas attityder till de olika undervisningsuppläggen. Vidare gjordes en jämförelse av klassens resultat på de nationella proven med resultaten i riket, samt med resultaten för en elevgrupp som undervisats traditionellt. Enkätsvaren visar att eleverna var mycket nöjda med flipped classroom, och att majoriteten ansåg att de lärde sig mer med flipped-classroom-baserad undervisning än med traditionell undervisning. Detta gäller elever på alla betygs­nivåer; elever med såväl som utan tillgång till matematik­hjälp hemma; pojkar såväl flickor. Elevernas inställning till peer instruction var mera splittrad. Jämförelsen av resultat på de nationella proven visar en tydlig nedgång i elevernas prestation mellan Ma 1c och Ma 3c. Den största delen av nedgången skedde mellan Ma 1c och Ma 2c, dvs. då undervisning baserad på flipped classroom infördes. Denna nedgång skulle givetvis kunna ha andra orsaker än att flipped classroom införts i undervisningen. Slutsatsen att flipped classroom, såsom det implementerats i klassen, inte tycks ha någon positiv inverkan på elevernas akademiska resultat tycks dock motiverad. / A flipped classroom based teaching structure in a natural science programme class at a higher secondary school has been studied in terms of influence on academic results and pupil attitudes. The class of was taught in mathematics by the same teacher using different teaching structures in three different mathematics courses: In Ma 1c, the teaching followed a traditional structure with classroom based lectures; in Ma 2c, the teaching structure was flipped, in that the pupils watched lecture podcasts prior to the lesson in order to make more time available for problem solving in class; Ma 3c also had a flipped structure, with the addition of peer instruction exercises in the classroom. A survey was performed relating to the pupils’ attitudes to the different teaching structures. Furthermore, the results of the class at the national tests in mathematics were compared a control group consisting of pupils who had been traditionally taught, as well as control groups derived from national statistics. The survey revealed that the pupils were very positive to flipped classroom teaching. The comparison of the results on national tests revealed that the academic results of the class declined between Ma 1c and Ma 3c, with the largest part of the decline occurring between Ma 1c and Ma 2c, i.e. when flipped classroom was introduced. At least part of this decline could possibly be ascribed to other factors than the change of teaching structure. However, the conclusion that flipped classroom as implemented in the class at study does not have a positive influence on the academic results of the pupils seems motivated.

O ciberespaço e as innitas possibilidades que se apresentam para nós, professores de losoa no ensino médio, não são panaceias capazes de resolver de uma vez por todas os problemas de insucessos no processo de ensino e da aprendizagem mas, se articulados de modo a deslocar o foco do ensino para a aprendizagem, imputando ao estudante o papel de protagonista de sua narrativa de conhecimento, acreditamos que poderemos enm caminhar rumo a uma educação melhor. Partindo desta constatação e vivenciando na sala de aula nossos fracassos perante uma geração que se comunica o tempo todo, mas que não se comunica com nossos conteúdos, que escreve o tempo todo (por cliques e toques em telas e teclados), mas que não escreve sequer um parágrafo em sala sem reclamar, é que voltamos aos primórdios da losoa, lá onde o diálogo, o debate e a discussão criaram as condições para o surgimento da losoa e, a partir dessa perspectiva, iniciamos uma investigação em busca do desenvolvimento de uma Performance Comunicativa que fosse dinâmica, sistemática e efervescente aos moldes daquela que, na ágora grega, possibilitou o nascimento da polis em um diálogo isonômico, isegórico e parresiástico. Como nossa percepção também captava o uso diuturno de dispositivos transmidiáticos por parte de nossos estudantes, conjecturamos a possibilidade de fazer do ciberespaço uma nova ágora que pudesse servir de antessala para a Performance Comunicativa. Nessa imersão, encontramos teorias que consideravam igualmente tais possibilidades e, dentre estas, fomos particularmente atraídos pelas propostas do Ensino Híbrido, especialmente através do projeto da Sala de Aula Invertida e do resgate de uma tendência que em muito lembrava os embates gregos, a Gamicação. Foi assim que então nos propusemos a pesquisar estes temas e, quando da sua compreensão e apropriação, articulá-los com a denição de losoa que nos balizava. Por esta razão, a presente tese busca reetir sobre o modo de ensinar os estudantes das aulas de losoa do ensino médio do Paraná a desenvolver Performances Comunicativas que, por sua vez, poderiam levá-los à experiência concreta da losoa e do losofar. / The cyberspace and the endless possibilities available for high school philosophy teachers are not just panaceas that could once and for all the problems of failures in the teaching and learning process but, if articulated in order to shift the focus from teaching to learning by imputing to the student the role of protagonist of his own narrative of knowledge, we believe that we could nally move towards a better educational program. Starting from this consideration and also experiencing in the classroom our failures towards a generation that is characterized by being continuously in communication and nevertheless unable to communicate with the school content itself, by writing all the time (through clicks and touches on their devices screens and keyboards) but unwilling to write even a single paragraph as a class activity, is that we head back to the origins of philosophy, to which dialogue, debate and discussion used to create the conditions for the emergence of philosophy. From this perspective, we will conduct an investigation which aims to search for the development of a dynamic, systematic and effervescent Communicative Performance, just like the one that, in the ancient Greek ágora, made possible the birth of the polis within an isonic, isegoric and parresiastic dialogue. As we could also notice a constant use of transmediatical devices by our students, we started to think about the possibility of turning cyberspace into a new agora that could operate as an antechamber for Communicative Performance. In this immersion, we found some other theories that were also considering those possibilities, and among them we were particularly attracted to the Hybrid Teaching proposals, especially through the project of an inverted classroom and by its return to a trend that very much resembled the Greek discussions, the so-called Gamication. In such a manner, we set out to research these subjects and, at the moment we could have a proper understanding and appropriation of it, to articulate them with the denition of philosophy we are based on. For this reason, the present thesis aims to reect on how should we teach the philosophy students of Paranas high school to develop Communicative Performances that could, in its turn, lead them to experience concrete philosophy and philosophizing.

Objective. To determine if a flipped classroom improved student examination performance in a pharmacotherapy oncology module. Design. Third-year pharmacy students in 2012 experienced the oncology module as interactive lectures with optional case studies as supplemental homework. In 2013, students experienced the same content in a primarily flipped classroom. Students were instructed to watch vodcasts (video podcasts) before in-class case studies but were not held accountable (ie, quizzed) for preclass preparation. Examination questions were identical in both cohorts. Performance on examination questions was compared between the two cohorts using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA), with prior academic performance variables (grade point average [GPA]) as covariates. Assessment. The students who experienced the flipped classroom approach performed poorer on examination questions than the cohort who experienced interactive lecture, with previous GPA used as a covariate. Conclusion. A flipped classroom does not necessarily improve student performance. Further research is needed to determine optimal classroom flipping techniques.

abstract: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of how collaborative language learning activities affected student perceptions of their engagement and language self-efficacy in a communicative, flipped language learning classroom in higher education. The new online platforms accompanying many textbooks now allow students to prepare for classes ahead of time, allowing instructors to use more class time for student engagement in actual language practices. However, there has been little investigation of the effects of this communicative, flipped classroom model on students’ learning processes and outcomes. This mixed methods action research study revealed that the introduction of varied collaborative language learning activities had a positive impact on students’ self-efficacy and engagement as well as provides implications that will be of value to language educators interested in enhancing their use of the communicative, flipped classroom model. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2019

Flipped classrooms are implemented in more schools each year, particularly in courses requiring increased teacher guidance for mastery. While a foundation of research related to pedagogy and academic outcomes exists, research is limited surrounding student perceptions of the social and learning culture during flipped learning. The purpose of this study was to explore high school math students' lived experiences of flipped learning related to content and instruction, critical thinking, and collaboration and interactions. A phenomenological design was employed using a conceptual framework combining cognitive load theory, sociocultural learning theory, and schema theory. Students from two public high schools in the Midwest participated. Seven students participated in interviews, and nine students participated in two focus group discussions. Data analysis involved in vivo coding of transcribed interviews and focus groups. Key results included students' perceptions of increased engagement and interactions, as well as more in-depth learning in flipped environments. Increased critical thinking was related to both instructional strategies employed and students' ability to self-regulate learning. Concepts of peer collaboration shifted as students viewed learning environments and sources of expertise as more extensive in the flipped environment. This study contributes to positive social change by providing educators and researchers with a deeper understanding of the importance of ensuring students are competent in using social technology tools that encourage students to interact both socially and academically in order to help them become more self-directed learners.

This literature review analyses what advantages and disadvantages can be gained by utilizing the flipped classroom method. The Swedish curriculum has been taken into consideration when conducting this review in order to see whether the method is compatible with the aim of the subject of English in the Swedish upper secondary school. Two key principles behind the flipped classroom are ‘active learning’ and ‘student-centered learning’. These key principles have been discussed and contrasted with the terms: ‘passive learning’ and ‘teacher-centered learning’. Acknowledging the fact that it is a challenge to engage students in their own learning as well as have them realize the benefits of doing so, this paper also highlights the advantages of implementing technology tools in the classroom where one can meet the needs of the students of today. The results of this literature review show that there are many advantages when utilizing the flipped classroom method. For example, the flipped classroom creates well-suited environments where discussions can take place, as the in-class activities aim at all students being engaged, applying concepts and sharing ideas. However, the results also show some disadvantages that may come when converting to a flipped classroom. Some of these are that the flipped model takes adjustment time, students need to adapt to the transition to a flipped classroom,and preparing online lessons is time consuming. Furthermore, both students and teachers need to learn how to use the new technology that comes with the flipped classroom model.