To What Extent Do Students Have to Be Taught How to Do Well in a Flipped Classroom?

In this episode, we look at why students have to be taught how to succeed in a flipped classroom and offer an exercise to help students (and professors) quickly understand why.

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Dr. Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and Dean of Applied Physics at Harvard University, Member of the Faculty of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Past President of the Optical Society. Mazur is an internationally recognized educational innovator. In education, he is widely known for his work on Peer Instruction, an interactive teaching method aimed at engaging students in the classroom and beyond. In 2014 Mazur became the inaugural recipient of the Minerva Prize for Advancements in Higher Education. He has received many awards for his work in physics and in education and has founded several successful companies. He has written extensively on education and is the author of Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively.

Robyn Brinks Lockwood teaches courses in English listening, speaking, and writing for international graduate students at Stanford University. She is also the education coordinator of the American Language and Culture undergraduate summer program. She is an active member of the international TESOL organization, serves as the ad-hoc consultant for the Publishing Professional Council, and is a past chair of the Materials Writers Interest Section. She is a frequent presenter at TESOL regional and international conferences. Robyn has edited and written numerous textbooks, online courses, video programs, and teacher’s ancillaries for second-language writing, speaking, and listening English courses and TOEFL preparation. Her publications include those of University of Michigan Press, Macmillan Education, Cambridge University Press, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill.