Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh.

A major recent development in pedagogical practice has been the invention, development and implementation of the flipped classroom. This approach is one of the key benefits afforded by moves towards ...

In the “flipped classroom” students prepare for classes via independent study using conventional or digital learning materials (articles, videos, lecture notes etc.). They acquire the subject ...

Flipped learning is most effective when it places active learning at its core, research suggests. A new model for flipped learning, developed by Manu Kapur and colleagues, aims to do just that The ...

CS 144: “Introduction to Computer Networking” has been using a flipped classroom model since 2012. (TIFFANY ONG/The Stanford Daily) It has been several years since professors first started ...

Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh thought she had the day’s lesson clinched. Her general chemistry class at Central New Mexico Community College was going to play a card game as a way of illustrating reaction ...

The feeling would crop up every so often. Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I kind of felt like there ...