Flipped learning has been implemented by many teachers at KI with positive results. If you want to read short article about a few KI teacher's experience you can read Blended learning in medical education – some recent evidence of advantage from KI and beyond

What is the Flipped Classroom?

Flipping the classroom is a form of blended learning. The flipped classroom reverses the traditional classroom. Students are given online content and activities to work with prior to class, mostly in asynchronous forms, without online mediation from the instructor. The instructor uses the learning platform to monitor the students progress and check that tasks are completed before meeting in-person. The basis of the flipped classroom is that it promotes active learning and student engagement in the synchronous sessions with the instructor as the facilitator providing expert knowledge when needed. Implementing a flipped classroom places different demands on faculty and students requiring both to reconsider the role of the instructor as a designer of the learning experience. It also requires clear learning design in the learning platform to ensure that students know what is required of them and when it is required. Students are accountable for their learning but you as the instructor provide the roadmap.

This page provides a quick introduction, one case study as well as links to more in-depth resources that we also provide you with to help plan blended learning using the flipped model.

A quick introduction in video form

This short video (1 minute) from CTL University of Texas at Austin

Example of implementing flipping

This case study provides an example of the stages needed in planning for flipping the classroom. In this video (2.49 minutes) Dr Clare Ray, University of Birmingham UK, describes how she has implemented the 'flipped classroom' in teaching sessions and how this can be used in a blended learning context. She emphasises how important it is to sell the model to the students and explain the pedagogical value of this model. She mentions recording podcasts (audio files) with Panopto which is a system for lecture capture. At KI we have Screencast-o-matic or Kalture Capture. She mentions TurningPoint for polling, at KI we could use Mentimeter or Canvas. Read more on this case at University of Birmingham.

In depth planning

This module includes more in depth planning resources for implementing flipped learning

To reflect on: Why might it be easier to implement flipped learning rather than blended learning in one part of your teaching? Reflect in your log.