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Flipped classroom was a popular method when I was teaching math. Some students found it very helpful. The trouble was getting the students to do the reading bef
by yoyohello13 1mo ago
Flipped classroom was a popular method when I was teaching math. Some students found it very helpful. The trouble was getting the students to do the reading before class. If students came in unprepared they struggled to keep up.
- comicjk 1mo agoI did this for the last college programming course I taught (2025) as an anti-LLM measure. Every class started with a very short closed-book auto-graded multiple-choice test on the reading. I was careful to specify which was the core reading needed to learn the material (on the quiz) and which was extra (not on the quiz - I think many professors assign this extra reading to everyone, thinking of their strongest students). I think this developed an expectation in the students that doing the reading was easier than finding a way not to.
- Groxx 1mo agoIt's especially hard when multiple subjects try to do it, because it can add enormous amounts of home-time expectations. And many families can't dedicate that much time. I do like it though, and I like that college generally leaned that way more (and was better balanced, as it had substantially less time in classrooms, so you could study during the day).
- newtwentysix 1mo agothanks for mentioning. this is a very important point !
- brian_spiering 1mo agoI taught a flipped classroom online. Students had to successful pass a quiz on the before class materials to get the join link to the session.
- cheesecakegood 1mo agoPopular yes; based on good quality research… no, not really. It’s really pretty unfortunate timing with the AI boom, because the field of education research is not very high on the science quality totem pole. And the field as a whole was and is also slow to incorporate neuroscience findings, too.