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Flipped Tutorials in Business Courses

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This chapter reports on a flipped classroom intervention in an undergraduate business course. We explore the role shifts for tutors and students that occurred when a flipped tutorial intervention was introduced in an introductory management course. The course is positioned in the first-year core of the undergraduate business management degree and has enrolments of up to one thousand students each semester. The chapter develops a model of tutor-student role combinations that create four different learning environments classified as: Instruction, Disconnection, Disruption, and Collaboration. We draw on vignettes from tutors and students to demonstrate how a Collaboration learning environment (the ideal for a flipped classroom) can be achieved through: 1. professional development practices that shift tutors from the role of King’s (College Teaching 41(1):30–35, 1993) ‘sage on the stage’ instructor to learning facilitators; and 2. curricula and course design and assessment and feedback practices that encourage students to shift from passive knowledge recipient to self-managed learner.

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We would like to acknowledge the following tutors and students who provided the illustrative examples featured in the chapter: Elizabeth Nichols, Gemma Irving, Alison Joubert, Lillian Bennett, and Simon Wright.

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  1. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    April Wright & Geoff Greenfield

  2. University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK

    Paul Hibbert

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  2. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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  3. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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  4. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Wright, A., Greenfield, G., Hibbert, P. (2017). Flipped Tutorials in Business Courses. In: Reidsema, C., Kavanagh, L., Hadgraft, R., Smith, N. (eds) The Flipped Classroom. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3413-8_18

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