{"id":378,"date":"2022-01-18T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T16:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/?p=378"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:46:45","slug":"new-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uscupstate.edu\/tip\/new-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight: Chris Bender and Flipped STEM Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even before COVID-19 forced us all online, Chris Bender<\/a>, Associate Professor of Chemistry, was already rethinking his Chemistry 111 course in Spring 2020. The Smith Building was being closed for renovations and CHEM U111 had a long history of high withdrawal rates. With building renovations forcing courses to become hybrid due to space limitations, would the withdrawal rate climb even higher? To prepare for a transition to a hybrid course in Fall 2020 (at least what was supposed <\/em>to be in Fall 2020), Dr. Bender applied to the inaugural Engaged Pedagogy and Hybrid Course Design Institute with CAIFS in Summer 2020. After a few months of training and course planning to implement a flipped classroom with active learning, the course went live in Fall 2020…and has remained flipped, active, and collaborative ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Bender presented findings from the new CHEM 101 course at the Fall Course Showcase. Watch the 15-minute video below to find out what happened to the W rate after the transition and to learn about students really think about those 6-minute videos!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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