Flipping an Introductory Finance Course

FRL 300, Managerial Finance I, is the first of the two-course sequence in finance for College of Business Administration undergraduate majors. It is a quantitative and learning-by-doing course. Due to its technical nature and requirement on prior knowledge of accounting, algebra and statistics, it historically has a very higher repeatable grade and has been identified as a system-wide bottleneck course. This project proposes to add more eLearning and technology components to the course, such as online videos, partial-flipped instruction, CONNECT online homework, calculator emulator, and iClickers to help students better prepare for the course, devote more class time to problem solving and class discussions activities, in order to improve student success.