Flipping Finance 303

Business Finance, a core course for all business administration majors, is identified as a bottleneck course for the CSU system with a high rate of repeatable grades. One innovative feature of this redesign addresses the serious problem of lack of prerequisite knowledge through a pre-class assessment. The class is generally flipped. Moodle postings provide step by step, customized lecture notes/ video clips followed by in-class, iClicker and peer discussion sessions. Online postings of weekly topic summaries on Moodle provide an effective roadmap for better student success. Theories are often paired with examples found in students' own everyday lives.