Teaching
How 'Flipping' the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture
Andrew Martin's teaching techniques get students out of their seats during his class on evolutionary biology at the U. of Colorado at Boulder. Some students enjoy the "flipped" lectures that require them to help one another understand the material. Others resent being forced to work in groups.
February 19, 2012
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Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos.
It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work in small groups to solve a problem, or when he asks...
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