Online Learning Update

December 25, 2013

Classrooms Flipped Around the World

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by John M. Eger, Huffington Post

But educators have no choice but to use technology aggressively, and in the process, change the way young people are educated. The concept of the flipped classroom is affordable and easily accessible to kids everywhere, and gives them the leisure to log on when and where they want, watch a short video, and absorb the material–even ask questions–without the embarrassment of their peers. The kids like it, it is more cost effective, and real learning is taking place. The Economist Magazine, which has been following the challenges in education for over two decades observed that, “A long-overdue technological revolution is at last under way.” And they have reported that education, as it exists almost everywhere in the world, is a major concern in nation after nation

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