Flipped classroom for a selected chapter in quantitative genetics course

Description:

In our masters course, Quantitative Genetics, we work through numerous exercises most of which require software usage such as R and DMU. A challenge in this course is that most students are not familiar with statistical software used to implement exercises in this course. Therefore, often lots of time is spent specially in first few classes to familiarize students with programs like R or DMU, that would have otherwise been used to discuss the subject matter in the ILO. Here a learning design is proposed to transform the first chapter of the course, the introduction part, which mainly introduces the theoretical backgrounds and familiarises the students with statistical programs like R and DMU in a small class teaching setting. The learning design will follow a flipped classroom approach where such trivial tasks as running a software and understanding command lines can best be taken by the students themselves prior to coming to class in a flipped classroom approach.