"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 ...

Cambridge, Mass. - February 8, 2012 - Researchers at Harvard University have launched the Peer Instruction (PI) Network, a new global social network for users of interactive teaching methods. PI, ...

The flipped classroom approach, heavily reliant on technology, may have reached a level of acceptance in higher education that makes is no longer experimental. Educators say students’ attitudes ...

Doug Bonderud is an award-winning writer capable of bridging the gap between complex and conversational across technology, innovation and the human condition. Flipped classrooms aren’t a new concept, ...

In the "flipped classroom," students view pre-recorded lectures before class so that classroom time can be dedicated to interactive learning. A new survey conducted by Sonic Foundry and the Center for ...

Via Benoit Anger and Thomas Roulet, comes this pretty useful infographic on the increasingly-famous "flipped classroom" model promoted by, among others, Khan Academy's Sal Khan: (More below.) What's ...

Most people can probably relate to this scenario from their time as a student. You spend an hour in class, listening to a teacher or professor lecture, then get home, get out your homework assignment, ...

Naima Khandaker, Battelle for Kids Human Capital Specialist, contributed to this post. Naima is a former teacher and current education policy nerd who believes that one day soon, education will be ...

The past years have witnessed the apparition of one of the largest educational revolutions of our time: many prognosticators trumpet how MOOCs and flipped classroom models are one of the most ...

‘FLIPPED’ GETS CANNED: One year after embarking her students on a flipped classroom adventure, teacher and blogger, Shelley Wright declares on the PLPNetwork that her “brief love affair with the flip ...

Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

During my freshman year at the University of Michigan, I had the displeasure of taking Math 105. Like all intro-level math courses at the University, this class is taught using a “flipped classroom” ...