One premise of the flipped classroom model is that students should spend most of their time in class interacting with content rather than listening to teachers present content. And I couldn’t agree ...

The flipped classroom model generated a lot of excitement initially, but more recently some educators -- even those who were initial advocates -- have expressed disillusionment with the idea of ...

Teachers at Clintondale High School send students home with lectures on video. The next day they tackle what would normally be considered homework together in class. The new model is called a ...

Michael F. Ruffini, a professor of educational technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, provides an explanation of the flipped classroom and its alternative, which offers the best of the ...

Humberto Urrutia took a closer look at the back of the life-size bust of Batman he had created in an art class at Yakima Valley College. “This is for my kids,” he said of the clay sculpture as ...

"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 ...

Flipped learning's slogan, much like the concept itself, is simple enough: Turning learning on its head. While it may be a ways away from universally achieving that goal, it has certainly succeeded in ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the location of Woodland Park High School. It is in Woodland Park, Colo. A growing number of educators are working to turn learning ...

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.

The flipped classroom inverts traditional teaching by relocating content delivery—often through recorded lectures or interactive modules—to pre-class activities, and dedicating in-class time to ...