How to Flip Your Accounting Course

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Abstract

Flipped classes increase comprehension and lower drop rates. Stop repeating the same old lecture and start mentoring your students. Two experienced presenters show you how to implement a flipped class strategy in your accounting classroom.

Thomas P. Edmonds, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). While at UAB he held the position of Friends and Alumni Professor of Accounting. He is a nationally recognized speaker in accounting education and served on the Editorial Boards of Issues in Accounting Education and Advances in Accounting Education. He is a coauthor of a highly successful series of introductory accounting textbooks published by McGraw-Hill and has written numerous articles that appear in a variety of journals. He has coordinated the Principles of Accounting courses at UAB and the University of Houston. Dr. Edmonds has received five prestigious teaching awards including the Alabama Outstanding Educators Award and the UAB President’s Teaching Award.

Christopher T. Edmonds’s, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His focus is on new teaching pedagogies such as flipping the classroom and distance learning. In his classes, students watch lectures at home and come to class to work with others and practice skills. He is the video coauthor of a highly successful series of introductory accounting textbooks published by McGraw-Hill. Although early in his career, Dr. Edmonds has received multiple teaching awards and published several articles in the area of accounting education.

Sub Track

• Southeast Regional Meeting

Presenters

• Thomas P Edmonds, University of Alabama-Birmingham

• Chris Edmonds, university of alabama-birmingham