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, ...

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.

Walk into a School of Medicine class and you likely won’t find a stern professor lecturing students in front of a projector. Instead, groups of medical students may be scattered across the room, ...

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 ...

The flipped classroom model is here to stay. This model, although not a golden bullet, puts the student firmly into the educational process. Think back over the last few years that you have been ...

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

Flipped classrooms have become a popular way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but a new study cautions that the model could trade ...

When astronomy lecturer Michael Faison taught the large lecture course “Planets and Stars” last spring, he became frustrated at the lack of student engagement in the class: Although one-third of the ...

To help medical students progress faster and find their calling in the field, two educators suggest moving content delivery out of the classroom may be the way to bring the students back in. Khan and ...

What percentage of your meetings is the word “flipped” mentioned? We seem to have a history of coming up with the most ridiculously bad words to describe what we are doing in higher education. MOOC, ...

It's time to flip your business meeting model. The norms for teaching and presenting information in the classroom are making a 180-degree about face, and this change has tremendous implications for ...