How to Achieve a Flipped Learning Experience with Document Cameras

Technology continues to positively impact various aspects of the world, and the traditional education model is no exception. Critics of the traditional ‘lesson and homework’ style have succeeded in advancing flipped learning as a new default education model. The advantages of this innovative move are endless, but as a teacher or a student, it can be daunting figuring out how to achieve the best-flipped learning experience. Document camera solutions like IPEVO products can help you with this task. What is flipped learning, and what are some helpful tools for the best experience?

What is Flipped Learning?

Flipped learning is a type of blended learning, meaning that it implements both online and offline resources. It is a teaching model that uses technology to help engage students and enhance efficiency and productivity for both the students and the teachers.

Flipped lessons replace teacher lectures with digital/online instructional material that students study at home, leaving in-class time to apply what has been learned through a variety of activities or assignments.

It typically involves recording video courses for students to watch before the lecture and using the lecture time for productive, interactive sessions such as debates, exercises, or quizzes that would have been used as homework.

How to “flip” the classrooms

Before class

• Use an IPEVO doc cam to prepare digital material. Record lecture videos, demonstrations, tutorials, or any other idea well in advance for students to watch at home.

Document cameras have a long list of uses. One such is creating and sharing online resources, which is exactly how it can help achieve a good flipped learning experience. The teacher can record lecture videos, demonstrations of mathematical processes, or other ideas well in advance for students to watch at home.

Students may be given a list of other online resource materials to broaden their perspectives about the taught concepts. Experiments with complicated processes are recorded to make it easy for students to grasp and understand. Diagrams, graphs, and other pictorial representations of data are easily pulled up and accompanied by requisite explanations with the help of a reliable Document Camera.

• Enable seamless remote collaboration if needed. Use the doc cam with any video conferencing software to provide guidance to students just as you would face-to-face.

Document cameras also help solve a lot of the problems of remote collaboration. It gives the students and the teacher the ability to engage as a class without being physically present in a particular location. The limitation of distance is readily remedied by way of collaborative tools that are easy to use and compatible with the most used video conferencing software out there.

During class

• Review concepts and perform live demos in front of the whole class using the doc cam to project onto a big screen.

Document cameras are the go-to tool when it comes to presenting materials. Effortlessly switching between materials and making live annotations results in a much smoother and time-efficient experience all around.

There are multiple instances where crowding around something to catch a glimpse simply doesn’t cut it. Intricate gadgets with small parts, chemical reactions, dissections, and art techniques benefit the most from it. Projecting the image on a large screen ensures that everyone is able to view the demonstration at an optimal angle.

Teachers can judge the performance of students appropriately and note what aspects of the taught concepts require more explanation and what ideas need to be emphasized more.

• Use the doc cam to let students share their work to engage in group discussions and other collaborative endeavors in real-time.

Apart from benefits on the side of the teacher, document cameras enhance the productivity of students. It helps students facilitate presentations. It also helps students demonstrate their degree of understanding of the taught concepts in real-time.

Document cameras make it possible for students to practice in class and share their work live. They can help to facilitate live workshop participation. Demonstrations can be shown and assessed in real-time and The teachers can showcase each student’s work to the members of the class

IPEVO Recommendations

What are the best tools for flipped learning from IPEVO? When it comes to document cameras, you can trust the recommendations from IPEVO for an unrivaled flipped learning experience: Here are some reasons:

Advanced connectivity

• IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB Document Camera
• IPEVO VZ-X Wireless Document Camera

With the VZ-R or VZ-X doc cam, you can enjoy a direct connection to your projector or TV and access live image streaming and projection of your lecture materials to a bigger screen without the need for a computer. Thir Ambarella SoC and Sony 8MP sensor provide faster focus speed, excellent noise reduction, and excellent color reproduction.

Perfect handling is made easy with buttons placed on their body for easy rotation, exposure adjustments, and others. There’s more! It comes with inbuilt LED lights that help with the illumination of image captures in poorly lit environments. Mobility is not a problem. It is built to save space and can be folded for easy transportation.

Durability and portability are also provided! Both VZ-R and VZ-X’s stand is made of GVX-5H, a type of glass fiber reinforced plastic as strong as most metals but weighing far less.

If you’re looking forward to avoiding the stress of untangling wires? Consider the VZ-X doc cam. Apart from its HDMI and USB features, it offers a WiFi feature. With a battery life of about 9–12 hours, convenience and confidence is assured throughout your lecture sessions.

Whether with the VZ-R or the VZ-X, you can create flipped classroom resources like videos with software like Camtasia and Seasaw. You may choose to use it with our IPEVO Visualizer to make your presentations. Alternatively, you may also choose to use with for online meetings. It is compatible with video conferencing software like Zoom, Skype, Google Meet/Hangouts.

Personal Tabletop:

• IPEVO V4K Document Camera
• IPEVO V4K PRO Document Camera

Our flagship models, the V4K and V4K PRO offer astounding high-definition resolutions to help you capture even the tiniest details during your presentation. They offer a high frame rate and high resolution that enhance clarity and smooth streaming. Its fast focusing speed helps you make comparisons in your lessons and presentations without interruptions. With its Sony CMOS image sensor, you are guaranteed excellent color reproduction. With its newly designed multi-jointed stand, flexibility and versatility are afforded. You can adjust it to different heights and angles for efficiency.

The newest release, the IPEVO V4K PRO, is the world’s first document camera with an AI-enhanced microphone. It allows an AI noise filter, which is highly effective in maintaining the natural sound of the human voice and removing noise with unrivaled accuracy. It comes with its own LED light source directed to the same spot as the camera’s lens for clear vision captures even in dimly lit environments. Durability, flexibility, and versatility are assured given the trusted materials it was made and its multi-joint design. What’s more? It is compatible with everything!

Professional On-The-Go

• IPEVO DO-CAM Portable Document Camera
• IPEVO DO-CAM Portable Document Camera — Creator’s Edition

With its unique folding mechanism and support structure, the portable DO-CAM offers an enviable “on-the-go” solution. It allows you to capture images from your best point of view by adjusting them to your preferred height and orientation.

You can now dispense with the need to hold papers in front of your webcams during a flipped learning session. All you have to do with the DO-CAM is flip and switch it back seamlessly whenever you need to show any physical material during the learning session, and then you can switch it back to a webcam for video calls.

Take advantage of these IPEVO products. They are guaranteed to take your flipped learning experience to the next level. These tools guarantee efficiency and productivity. If you are interested in learning more about IPEVO and/or purchasing, feel free to visit the US Online Store or get in touch with a Sales Representative for your region by email at US: sales@ipevo.com; CA: sales-canada@ipevo.com; UK: sales-uk@ipevo.com; Other regions: sales-intl@ipevo.com