ABSTRACT
Flipped learning is a general term used to describe several kinds
of teaching techniques designed to engage students and inspire
deep learning. Flipped learning often means that the lecture is
provided in a format available outside of the classroom while the
homework or other activities are done in the classroom where
students get help from the Instructor or fellow students. [1] When
educators decide to start to flip a class, they discover that
recording all of the lectures so that they can be streamed online is
a daunting task. Many begin by flipping only one or two lectures,
creating a partially flipped class to test how well it works. A
teaching technique promoted by the National Science Foundation
is Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL). POGIL
organizes students into teams of four or five team members. Each
team member has a well-defined role to play while the team
works through a POGIL activity. IT3510 is an Advanced Linux
Administration class where POGIL activities were used as a
partially flipped teaching technique. Several lessons were learned
about implementing POGIL activities in an upper-division
Information Technology (IT) course.