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By Cynthia J. Brame, CFT Assistant Director Printable Version "Flipping the classroom" has become something of a buzzword in the last several years, driven in part by high profile publications in The New York Times (Fitzpatrick, 2012); The Chronicle of Higher Education (Berrett, 2012); and (Mazur, 2009); In essence, "flipping the classroom" means that students gain first exposure to new material outside of class, usually via reading or lecture videos, and then use class time to do the harder work of assimilating that knowledge, perhaps through problem-solving, discussion, or debates.

In the contemporary world, lecture capture technology is one of the latest inventions being used by many education systems. It has drastically improved teaching and has taken learning into a new dimension. Literally moving lectures out of the classroom has appealed to a broader range of people across the globe.