Recommended reading
Stephens T (2012) Understanding the Myths & Realities Associated with Flipped, Hybrid, and Blended Learning Models. eClass4learning.
This article is a succinct list of common myths about “Flipped Classrooms” and well-founded responses.
Why bother?
1. Informing our tact.
Schools are prone to buzz-word epidemics. Some (particularly older) teachers have a highly sensitised immune response to educational theory and teaching innovations.
2. Informing our learning designs.
The 2010 buzz-word “Flipped Classroom” is rightly giving legitimacy to a cluster of teacher innovations that provide new patterns of good practice and draw on some well-tested recipes and theories of the past, including:
- student-centred learning
- guided inquiry learning
- problem-based learning
- Just-In-Time Teaching
- social constructionism (theory)
- multimedia learning (theory)
- active learning (theory)
Further reading
- Pink D (2010) Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US. The Telegraph, 12 Sep. UK.
- Kuhlthau C. C., L. K. Maniotes, and A. K. Caspari. (2007) Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century. US: Libraries Unlimited.
- Novak G (2004) What is Just-in-time Teaching? National Science Foundation. US
- Palloff RM, Pratt K (2007) Building Online Learning Communities: Effective strategies for the virtual classroom. US: Wiley.