Educational Technology

March 21, 2014

Getting off on the right foot in an inverted calculus class

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:29 am

By Robert Talbert, Chronicle of Higher Ed

When you hear people talk about the flipped classroom, much of the time the emphasis is on what happens before class – the videos, how to get students to do the reading, and so on. But the real magic is what happens in class when students come, prepared with some basic knowledge they’ve acquired for themselves, and put it to work with their peers on hard problems. But before this happens, there’s an oddly complex buffer zone that students and instructors have to cross, and that’s the time when students arrive at the class meeting.

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/castingoutnines/2014/03/11/getting-off-on-the-right-foot-in-an-inverted-calculus-class/

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