Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The "Flipped Classroom"

An interesting new way of teaching could easily come from MOOCs. An MIT graduate, Tony Hyun Kim, taught a hybrid course to high school students, circuits-and-electronics, and blended online learning with facet-face learning. This could be the future of teaching. No more homework, just go home watch a lecture online and spend class time going over it and grasping a better understanding of the lecture. And once everything seems to be understood, focus on labs, hands on learning, and more peer learning in the classroom setting. This form of teaching is called the "flipped classroom" and could be the future of teaching. The results of Mr. Kim's classroom are described as remarkable in the article, and the experiment of the flipped classroom is now being tested at the community college level, and could be the future of learning. So maybe Mooc's wont burst the college bubble after all, maybe they will just speed up the pace, and advance learning if the flipped classroom is taken into consideration as the future of learning.

http://chronicle.com/article/Massive-Excitement-About/134672/

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