Pedagogical framework

Prepare

Preparing your students means asking them to complete a task before coming to a class session. This frees up time during the session to practise, apply concepts and check your students' understanding.

Innovations that helped address this situation

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We often hear about the flipped classroom in higher education. While the term is fashionable, the principle has been used for a long time. It consists of reversing the traditional way of teaching a course. Students are exposed to educational content (e.g. readings, videos, podcasts…) ahead of a class session. During the session, students are then in a position to appropriate the concepts by putting them into practice, which leads to better learning.

The flipped classroom is a form of so-called active pedagogy: it is learner-centred and aims to stimulate students' learning and engagement during the course. One of the added values of this pedagogical innovation is the time it frees up in class — for example, to create interactions between your students and you, or between peers.

The flipped classroom is not a method but a concept that comes in several forms and can easily be combined with other types of pedagogy.

How will you check that students have properly engaged with the resources made available? Will you question them or ask them to react? This homework can lead, for example, to a remote activity in the form of a quiz, a self-assessment, peer assessment or participation in a forum.