2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

The teaching of Dynamics at the United States Air Force Academy, USAFA has changed dramatically due to COVID-19. Initially, when all courses went remote at USAFA, Dynamics was taught using a “flipped-remote” format. In a traditional flipped course, the lecture content is typically delivered asynchronously via videos and the in-class activities are redesigned to be more active. Although many papers have been written on flipping Dynamics, missing from the literature is information on the challenges associated with a flipped course being taught by new instructors who did not participate in the development of the course, who have no experience teaching a flipped course, and who may or may not be convinced as to the benefits of flipping the course, but are willing to try it. In this paper, we will discuss the lessons learned as Dynamics evolved from being remote-flipped to being face-to-face flipped, and finally to being face-to-face flipped taught by instructors who did not participate in designing the flipped class. Each of the courses will be briefly described, and assessment results will be presented on students’ perceptions as to which activities they believed to be most beneficial to their learning in the course. Insights from the instructors who taught the course using the flipped materials developed by somebody else will also be presented. The purpose of soliciting feedback from these instructors was to learn how to best design a flipped course so that future instructors can effectively use the materials for a flipped course with little additional work on their part.