The flipped classroom is a teaching approach where students get their first exposure to course content before coming to class. As the term suggests, a flipped classroom upends the traditional formula for delivering course content. Instead of listening to a lecture during a class period, students work on applying knowledge gleaned from previously shared material, such as a recorded lecture, a video, or written document. A goal of the flipped classroom is to engage students in active learning, wherein they can work on pertinent, well-designed exercises, participate in group work, and/or explore the implications of concepts raised in the lecture in order to promote a deeper understanding of a concept.
Further Reading & Resources:
Bain, Ken, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Bruff, Derek. “Helping Students Learn: the Flipped Classroom and Peer Instruction.” Licensed Image CC-BY-2.0.
Farmer, Robert. “What Is the Flipped Classroom.” Learning Technology Blog, University of Northampton, 2015, blogs.northampton.ac.uk/learntech/2015/01/16/what-is-the-flipped-classroom. Accessed 11 June 2021.
Lang, James. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2016.
Active Learning (CTL Resource)
Talbert, R., & Bergmann, J. 2017. Flipped learning: A guide for faculty teaching face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses. Stylus Publishing, LLC.