Then, the in-class portion of the course wasspent on lab work in groups on more complicated problems stemming from their out-of-classwork. The course was broken into distinct learning objectivesfor each class meeting, and students used existing online documentation and internet videos(some created specifically for this class by the author) along with targeted pre-class homeworkexercises to acquire basic concepts in MATLAB. The course used no textbook and involved no in-classlecture apart from the first class meeting. But today, the availability ofcheap, ubiquitous, and simple technology for creating and sharing content - such as YouTubeand podcasting - has made the externalization of the transmission phase of learning easier thanever to implement.In this paper, we will discuss the application of the inverted classroom model to an introductoryMATLAB course for first-year students. In the past, moving the transmissionphase outside of class meant having students read from a textbook, a task with notoriously lowparticipation rates and which in many cases requires cognitive skills at least as complex as theassimilation-phase tasks toward which the students are moving.

Hence, students oftenfind themselves working on tasks that require the greatest amount of instructor interventionprecisely when that intervention is least effectively available.One way to ameliorate this problem is to use an “inverted classroom” structure, in which thetransmission phase takes place outside of class, leaving class time free to be used on activities inthe assimilation phase with direct instructor supervision.

A flaw in this arrangementis that the activity that is simplest from a cognitive standpoint - transmission - takes up themajority of class time while the assimilation phase, which involves much higher-order cognitivetasks, takes place outside of class and beyond the reach of the instructor. Learning MATLAB in the Inverted ClassroomIn a typical classroom setting, knowledge is initially transmitted to students through lectures andthen assimilated by students through group work, labs, or homework.

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