How Can I Get them to Read Before Class???

I notice that many of you responding to the post on the Flipped Classroom have pointed out the difficulty in getting students to do pre-class work. Many students need some kind of incentive in order to invest in pre-class activity. We have seen this time and again. I wanted to share with you a strategy used by one professor to get his students engaged. Professor Ives Araujo from UFRGS-Brasil, about how he motivated his students to do Reading Assignments before class and how he measured this out-of-class engagement. Find out what he learned after the flipped his classroom
http://blog.peerinstruction.net/2012/09/04/how-one-professor-motivated-students-to-read-before-a-flipped-class-and-measured-their-effort/

This Flipping Thing!

Its been a long time since my last post and I realise that while there is always so much I can talk about in a blog, there are times when I really don't feel like talking. I guess that's a downside of doing a blog. You always have to have something to say and have the inclination to say it. A great place for extroverted introverts! Anyway enough about me. This post is about  the flipped classroom and how to encourage student engagement in your flipped  classroom. I know some of you may in fact be flipping your classroom without realising that you were doing it since the strategy of active learning during class sessions and having students prepare beforehand is not new and is in fact good teaching practice. The question is usually how do you get your students to prepare beforehand. The article The Flipped Classroom: Tips for Integrating Moments of Reflection By Barbi Honeycutt, PhD and Sarah Egan Warren gives an interesting perspective on flipped classrooms and student engagement. Also note that The Flipped Learning Network is a professional learning community focused particularly on the use of screencasting in education.Please read and share your views.