🔄 Why we recommend flipped-class teaching

Students are no longer reading the textbook before class. Instead, typically, a student now attends class to determine what's important, then the best students go away and study those topics. This gives them more control over their time and learning, but diminishes instructors’ ability to provide added value.

By incentivizing pre-class work, instructors can more effectively deliver that additional value, and students respond positively.

By providing the right materials and incentives for students to work through the fundamentals of the material before they come into the classroom, we can create opportunities to go beyond the basics in the classroom; connecting dots between concepts, deepening understanding, and applying principles live in-class, where students can get support in the moment from their instructors.

🏗️ Using Modules to create structure

We recommend a module structure to provide students with clarity on what they need to do before each class, and by when (this can be set up for one module per week, or with one module spanning more than one week).

Like in a traditional classroom, students learn through repetition, so make sure each module is set up in the same way to help students know what to expect. 

🖥️ Before class

We recommend assigning Blended Teaching video chapters, along with a simple quiz, before each scheduled class session. We recommend 1 to 3 hours of video content before each class session (more content if you have fewer, longer sessions, and less content for shorter, more frequent sessions).

The cinematic quality of Blended Teaching’s video chapters make them much more captivating than reading a textbook chapter. This makes pre-class work less painful for students, and results in much higher engagement than assigning a textbook chapter to read.

🧠 Setting up quizzes

Set the quiz due date to 11:59 pm the night before the session, and make the quizzes difficult enough that students must watch the videos to do well.

We recommend giving students multiple attempts to encourage students to learn from their mistakes & learn through repetition.

Blended Teaching provides banks of dynamic quiz questions, so no two quizzes are ever the same.

🧑‍🏫 In class

Part 1: Discussing the Chapter (⏰ 20- 30 minutes)

• Ensure all relevant points are covered, with students doing most of the talking. Knowing that the majority of the class have watched the videos means you don't need to cover everything in detail. Instead, focus on helping them connect the dots and relate the topics to the bigger picture of the course.
• Blended Teaching provides editable slides for every chapter to support this activity. Check out an example here.

Part 2: Discussing current events related to the chapter (⏰ 10-15 minutes)

• Find recent news stories that relate to the chapter, and prepare discussion prompts to use in class.
• Emphasize that these are topics companies and markets are dealing with today, and their knowledge helps them make decisions in this environment.
• Blended Teaching’s News feed tool, launching in 2025, makes it easy to find relevant articles from reputable sources.

Part 3: Working through problems (⏰ 30-45 minutes)

• Work through a set of problems that emphasize the points discussed.
• These can be worked on by students individually or in groups.
• Blended Teaching provides problems and solutions for use in class.

Interested in seeing if Blended Teaching can work for your class? Educators can access our course materials here.