What does research say about flipped teaching?

By Michael Seery2015-11-10T15:34:00

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Michael Seery explores the flip side of traditional lectures

What happens when chemistry lecturers flip their courses? Over the summer I took a look at the published research on flipped lecturing in chemistry and published a review in Chemistry Education Research and Practice (it’s free to read). Here’s what I found...

Michael Seery explores the flip side of traditional lectures, considering why lecturers are flipping classes, how these work and, most importantly, how effective lecture flipping is in creating learning gains for students.

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