It was more time to spend with individual students to help them conquer

It is hard to find a teacher who has tried flipping and doesn't prefer the method to the traditional lecture. In general, they say flipping helps them connect better with students.

"Almost every teacher you talk to about this says they know their students better than they ever had," Overmyer said.

By the second semester, Strong said her son finally understood that this was a class where he had more responsibility to learn.

But liberal arts colleges are reluctant to expand in size out of fear of diminishing the quality of their experience. Their small-class and residential-campus models are expensive to provide, as are the financial aid programs they deploy to ensure diverse student bodies. Administrators fear breaking down the four-year, full-time model, which they believe is crucial to developing well-rounded students. And the liberal arts curriculum isn’t necessarily tied to preparing students for a specific career, and certainly not a single job

Despite significant looming challenges related to affordability, access, public skepticism about value, changing student demographics, and the influence of technology on students and education -- which all the attendees readily acknowledged -- most of the presidents of the liberal arts colleges here this week aren’t planning on substantively changing to how their institutions operate or their economic models.

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