A Busy Professor's Guide to Sanely Flipping Your Classroom: Bringing active learning to your teaching practice

Abstract

The has become a popular teaching method. Students watch video lectures before class, saving time for active learning (problem solving, demonstrations, applications, and so forth). This article provides a useful guide for busy professors who would like to try the flipped-classroom approach. Recommendations for four teaching components are given: 1) planning the flipped classroom, 2) video lectures, 3) active learning, and 4) student-centered formative assessment. It includes suggestions for getting started with the flipped-teaching method, case studies from electromagnetics (EM), and feedback from students about the resources they find most useful, their comfort level with asking questions, and their opinions of the flipped class during the semester. Training materials for flipping your classroom (or helping others do so) are available at http://teach-flip.utah.edu.