Flipping the Classroom

Flipping the classroom!


The idea of flipped classrooms has been around for a few years now, but I don’t think we’ve read a paper yet that explicitly discusses the idea and does research to evaluate the effectiveness.  The authors used this approach in a first-year pharmaceutics course.

Abstract Excerpt:
"Recent calls for educational reform highlight ongoing concerns about the ability of current curricula to equip
aspiring health care professionals with the skills for success. Whereas a wide range of proposed solutions attempt to address apparent deficiencies in current educational models, a growing body of
literature consistently points to the need to rethink the traditional in-class, lecture based
course model. One such proposal is the flipped classroom, in..."


 The Flipped Classroom: A Course Redesign to Foster Learning and Engagement in a HealthProfessions School - McLaughlin et al 2014

Direct URL:  http://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Abstract/2014/02000/The_Flipped_Classroom___A_Course_Redesign_to.17.aspx

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