The flipped classroom model generated a lot of excitement initially, but more recently some educators -- even those who were initial advocates -- have expressed disillusionment with the idea of ...

In my last post about the inverted/flipped calculus class, I stressed the importance of Guided Practice as a way of structuring students’ pre-class activities and as a means of teaching self-regulated ...

Flipped learning is most effective when it places active learning at its core, research suggests. A new model for flipped learning, developed by Manu Kapur and colleagues, aims to do just that The ...

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Through much of our respective teaching careers, we had often been frustrated with students not being able to apply the content from our lectures to their work and daily lives. Then one day, after a ...

The feeling would crop up every so often. Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I kind of felt like there ...

Technology is playing a key role in keeping students with physical and learning disabilities stay engaged in class and at home. You can see more great feature articles in the latest issue of our ...

Preliminary research at Harvey Mudd College suggests the benefits of %27flipping%27 a classroom are dubious. Two high school teachers started the %27flipped classroom ...