Rhonda Sanders

Advantages to the Flipped classroom includes increased accountability, turning learning to a student-centered goal, ability foe students to work at their own pace, allows students to assimilate the teaching through projects and teaching peers, increased ability to review course content, opens the instructor to a different type of instruction.

Barriers to the flipped classroom include fear of technology, fear of new teaching styles, inequality of availability to technology, lack of student desire to learn certain boring yet necessary information.

Ths type of learning is supported by Bloom's Taxonomy.  It gives students the capability to truly assimilate and put to… >>>

This is a phenomenal concept given the move towards online education.  It puts the responsibility if learning into the hands of students.  That type of accountability is very different from traditional teaching - in that teachers were the primary source of information, and students could blame teachers for a lack of education.   It had been proven time and again, that the traditional forms of learning is not always nest for all students.   By adding the accountability to students, they will work towards their own goals, and open the classroom itself for hand on and project based learning.  Spot on.