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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

Authors

Vajih Khan, Sam Houston State University; Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Michelle Boyd

collaboration environment in the Metaverse. Method Though there are several virtual reality classroom environments available to test we choose the Horizon Workrooms because of the ease and availability of Quest goggles and the default avail- ability of the Horizon Workrooms application.5 We selected our “Technology Innovations" course to run the virtual reality classroom experiment as this course has been taught for several years with an established syllabus, was online in the past, and includes a good mix of junior and seniors. Furthermore, as the course name suggests this class was ripe ground for testing new in- novative educational tools. Blackboard is the established learning platform used on our campus and in addition

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2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

Authors

Jessica Lofton, University of Evansville

classroom. It was also thefirst flipped classroom experience in an engineering course for the students. The 2021 semesterincluded in the study occurred after students had experienced online and hybrid courses due tothe pandemic. This paper augments the limited published work regarding flipped classrooms inheat transfer and provides recommendations for instructors interested in flipping engineeringcourses.ImplementationOn the first day of class, the flipped classroom format was introduced, and the instructordiscussed the pedagogical benefits supported by research. Course expectations were shared, aswell as detailed in the syllabus, which included online video assignments in the course calendar.Slides from a short introductory video were presented in