RESOURCE: 6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom — Campus Technology
Three leaders in flipped classroom instruction share their best practices for creating a classroom experience guaranteed to inspire lifelong learning.
“If you were to step into one of my classrooms, you’d think I was teaching a kindergarten class, not a physics class,” laughs Harvard University (MA) professor Eric Mazur. “Not because the students are children, but because of the chaos and how oblivious the students are to my presence.”
Such pandemonium is a good thing, insists Mazur, an early adopter of the flipped classroom model that has become all the rage at colleges and universities across the country. “That’s how we all learn: by actively engaging in the material rather than sitting in a classroom and writing down the words said by the professor.”
via 6 Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom — Campus Technology.
Written by Brian S McGowan, PhD
Dr. McGowan has served in leadership positions in numerous medical educational organizations and commercial supporters and is a Fellow of the Alliance (FACEhp). He founded the Outcomes Standardization Project, launched and hosted the Alliance Podcast, and most recently launched and hosts the JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD podcast. In 2012 he Co-Founded ArcheMedX, Inc, a healthcare informatics and e-learning company to apply his research in practice.
