A classroom students lead themselves through the weeks materials rather than the professor leading the class.

The idea being that the student processing this information through teaching it will them actually learn it and retain it.

It works! But to do these kinds of things well takes time and energy. Too often a flipped classroom ends up being students just lecturing at the prof about shit the students don’t understand while the prof has to grin and bear it.

Flipped classrooms work only when they’re paired with active learning practices. Profs need to show us how the research process works and help us recreate it. That’s where the “flipping” actually happens. And that’s where some tangible skill building can happen too.