Flipped Classrooms: Exciting or Exhausting?By Margaret Shen It’s a whole new semester. You go to the class and imagine everything will be the same as last year. However, it seems like everything has changed after the professor announces that she’s not going to teach this semester. What is this about, you murmur to yourself. How can the professor not teach? Then you are divided into groups. “You have to learn by yourself this semester. You are going to be the host of this course,” the teacher says excitedly. “We are going to have a flipped classroom!”
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May 2024
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