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"I like it a lot because I spend a lot more time talking with the students than talking at the students," he says

This group work is an example of team-based learning, an umbrella term for a teaching approach that emphasizes teamwork rather than isolation. Team-based classwork was rare a generation ago in many disciplines, but the ability to work with others has become as critical to employers as communication, writing and critical thinking, Nowic

In fact, the reason the panel consisted of nine educators, instead of two or three, was precisely to demonstrate that there were many different ways to effectively flip a classroom.

Many of the educators talked about pre-recording certain topics that students consistently ask about, such as "How do I get to Google Docs?" and "What does MLA formatting look like?"

it’s about flipping the attention away from the teacher and toward the learner.

Flipped classrooms may look more like “learning centers” where students are working on different tasks at the same time.