Teaching Tip: The Flipped Classroom.

1. INTRODUCTION In a traditional instructor-centered classroom, the teacher lectures during class time and gives students homework to be done after class. In a flipped, or inverted, classroom, things are done the other way round: the teacher delivers lectures before class in the form of pre-recorded videos, and spends class time engaging students in learning activities that involve collaboration and interaction. Passive learning activities such as unidirectional lectures are pushed to outside class hours, to be replaced with active learning activities in class. The term inverted appeared in the literature as early as 2000 (Lage, Platt and Treglia, 2000) and was made popular by Chemistry teachers Bergmann and…