William Swart is a Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management at East Carolina University. He received his BS in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and his PhD in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has held leadership positions in industry, including Corporate Vice President, and in the academia, including Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He is the recipient of a NASA/JFK Group Achievement Award, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Operations Research Practice Award, and the Achievement in Operations Research Medal from the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS).

This participatory workshop will be related the educational model name flipped classrooms of flipped learning which, in opinion of a increasing number of academics, has more educational effectiveness than other means of using ICT innovations in Education. Professor William Stuart, author of the book “Extending the Principles of Flipped Learning to Achieve Measurable Results: Emerging Research and Opportunities”, will deliver this workshop, which will be structured with the following topics:

•  What is and why consider flipped learning?
•  How to implement flipped learning?
    ⁃   Changed role of students
    ⁃   Changed role of professor
•  Measuring flipped learning results
•  Improving flipped learning results