by Dan Rodriguez, Northwestern Law
Over the last five to ten years, there has been a major shift in thinking about how students learn. That shift is from teacher-focused to student-focused learning – whereas the focus in the past has been on how the teacher conveyed information, now, the focus is on how students learn information. A key driver of this shift is new technologies that facilitate different interaction between students and professors, and that allow for different interaction among students. The “flipped classroom” – where students view lectures and engage in other learning activities online prior to class, and then use the classroom for problem-solving and team activities, real world speakers, or having the professor tailor class time to the subjects students are having the most problem with – is one of the most visible examples of what new technologies are bringing to higher education. While much of the new technology promotes learning online outside the classroom, the classroom environment nonetheless remains vitally important, as students and professors meet for the enhanced learning opportunities that technology has afforded.
http://deansblog.law.northwestern.edu/2013/09/06/the-flipped-classroom/
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