Tips for a Flipped Classroom: What We Wished We Knew Before We Flipped

Abstract

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The flipped classroom approach has been used in health profession education to encourage active learning, but predominantly pre-learning flipped activities are passive knowledge input, such as watching recorded lectures. To encourage active learning, online learning activities focusing on knowledge acquisition and application were developed as pre-work for the flipped classroom in a pathology course in an undergraduate medical programme. These included labeling macroscopic pathology and histology images, case scenarios and multiple-choice questions. Student responses indicated that some of these were helpful, while some interfered with learning.In addition to the pedagogical issues associated with designing a flipped classroom, instructors also need to consider the technical elements of designing pre-course material for independent study. This paper examines the components of this flipped classroom's pre-work and highlights successful and unsuccessful e-learning components.