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Flipping the Classroom/Service-Learning-Social Enterprise

  • 1.  Flipping the Classroom/Service-Learning-Social Enterprise

    Posted 08-31-2017 14:51

    Dear Colleagues,

     

    At California State University Chico, about 95% of all introductory accounting students are not accounting majors.

     

    But most of my colleagues still teach the course as though all students are accounting majors. As a result, the "repeatable" rate in the class is about 40-45%.

     

    A couple years ago, I "flipped" my principles of accounting classroom. In doing so, I made about 50 brief videos (3 to 10 minutes in length) and uploaded them to YouTube. These videos replaced my regular lectures, and now I've created several cases/reading assignments that align with the videos.

     

    Also, students can earn "bonus" points by completing a service-learning activity by mentoring teens who start their own social enterprises on their high school campuses.

     

    Now, three years later, I have abandoned the standardized textbook completely, and my students are performing better than when I used the traditional textbook. Instead of paying $260 for a new book, students buy a much less expensive "Course Pass" allowing them access to all my materials.

     

    If anyone would like more information about how I flipped the class, how I've implemented the Course Pass system, or how I integrate service learning into the course, please let me know.

     

    A brief video describing the course can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fG6vrSLDyM.

     

    All my best,

     

    Curt DeBerg

    Business Professor

    California State University, Chico

    530.520.7370

    cdeberg@csuchico.edu

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