This curriculum, and all the resources are offered to you free. To access the premade course shell, go to our Canvas Commons page and search “parallel pedagogy”.
Flipped Classroom
While any kind of teaching environment would work for Parallel Pedagogy, I prefer a flipped classroom. I like the flipped classroom, because it leaves the class time open for demos, activities and group problem solving. Most of the homework problems are addressed (but usually not completed) during class. However, the parallel pedagogy could be taught in traditional lecture format equally as well.
Before class, students watch videos and answer questions through a web platform that records their participation. These videos and online questions are free and publicly available – see table at bottom. The class is also supported by three short, concise textbooks, which are open source, and free for you to use, download, and distribute as you find best supports your classes:
- Calculus Based
- Algebra Based
- Physics in Three Part Harmony, Nov. 2024 edition, conceptual curriculum, by Dean Stocker, Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Besides mechanics, it includes waves & vibrations, solids, liquids, gases, and thermodynamics; E&M, circuits, optics, and a bit of modern physics, and covers everything that pre-health majors need. Canvas Quizzes, Echo360 polling questions, and a Solutions Manual based upon this work are available to instructors at no cost by emailing dean.stocker@uc.edu and providing a link to their school’s website that verifies their role as an instructor.
Instructors are free to make use of the questions and solutions posted on the websites from the classes I have directed and am presenting directing. Additionally, through these websites, you can see my comprehensive student evaluations and the priorities and narrative developed in my classes.
Advice for Easy Adoption of Parallel Pedagogy Curriculum
After you copy or take the curriculum from our Canvas shell, set up an account on PlayPosit (I think it’s about $100 a year for you, but free for your students) and copy my set of “video-question bulbs”. This will allow you to immediately start teaching. You can tailor the video questions and switch out other videos as you become comfortable with the format.
Videos are posted on Youtube. Through PlayPosit, the instructor posits questions for the students to answer and saves this watching experience as a “bulb”. Student participation is recorded for the instructor. The public is welcome to copy my set of bulbs as a starting point to being their curriculum. Below, at left are the links for my students who want credit for the class. In the middle are links for the public who do not need to enroll in PlayPosit (although it doesn’t cost anything). Direct links to Youtube videos are at the right. Many of these videos are marginal at best and should be redone. If you make a video that you want to share, please send me the link.
