Expert Tips for Flipping the Classroom

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. 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.”

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