Before class
So in the flipped class, students do the work before class in touching on readings, lectures, etc.
“Outsourcing your homework” by Kevin Lim is licensed under CC
Readings are readings, but for lectures, a common way to do this is through video, in particular screen-capture video. Other options are podcasts, lecture capture and accessing readings, etc. on the web.
Examples:
Robert Talbert (Math) at Grand Valley State University puts his screencasts on his youtube channel, RobertTalberPhD.
Closer to home, TRU’s Tony Bell has an impressive video gallery
So imagine…. a prof puts up a one-hour lecture and asks students to watch prior to class. What will they really do? I suggest being realistic – people view videos much the way they read online. Reading online has often been described as the F-Shaped pattern. The Neilsen Norman Group’s work on this more than a decade back, using eye-tracking software identified this as described in “The F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content“.
I don’t know about you, but I certainly identify with that. When you’ve watched videos on Youtube, Vimeo or elsewhere, what has your viewing behavior been like?