Flipped teaching reverses, or “flips”, traditional in-class lectures and homework. Students watch the teacher’s prerecorded lecture at home, and in-class time is used for students to test their skills, apply their knowledge, and interact through hands-on projects, discussions, and exercises.
Traditional lectures such as the one below can be sleep-inducing or worse:
Boring Economics teacher from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The idea behind flipped teaching is straightforward:
- Students watch video recordings of lectures in their place of choice in their own time.
- The time in class is now available for hands-on work and face-to-face interaction with teachers and peers.
The rationale is simple too:
- Speech is a bad medium for communicating information – so watch lectures and videos at home.
- Speech is a good medium for dialogue – so do hands-on work and face-to-face interaction with teacher/peers at school and speaker/peers at a conference.
Resources
- Blog Post: Why lectures are dead (or soon will be)
- Article: Twilight of the Lecture
- Article: Great lecture: what was it about again?
- Blog Post: Why I gave up flipped instruction
- Blog Post: What does research say about flipped teaching?
- Research Paper: The flipped classroom for teaching organic chemistry in small classes: is it effective?
- Research Paper: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Flipped Format General Chemistry Course
Posts that link to this post
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- Knowledge Cafés at ING Bank, Netherlands Connect, connect, connect
- The Power of Peer Instruction Why explaining ideas to others leads to deeper learning
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