Flipping Vector Dynamics Using Simulations and Videos

Dynamics is a foundational course for almost all engineering students. We deal with over 600 students from various engineering majors take this class every year with a high failure rate. Our objective is to improve student learning and their performance by using a redesign strategy that would provide more and better opportunities for students to learn. Our approach for redesign integrates technology and pedagogy. Our redesign strategy incorporates all the best practices we have developed in our earlier course redesign projects. Specifically our redesign course structure includes, 1) short introductory video discussing the relevance and application of a concept, 2) practical examples, 3) in-class discussion on concepts and examples from the video, 4) Simulation/Experiments, and narrated examples & derivations (longer videos).